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HP ProLiant N54L MicroServer NAS $229 @ Shopping Express

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HP ProLiant N54L MicroServer NAS $229 @ Shopping Express
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c0balt on 24/03/2014 - 14:21 shoppingexpress.com.au (1761 clicks)
Last edited 24/03/2014 - 17:43 by 1 other user

Not the best price it's ever been, but it's the best price around at the moment.

Other deals on NAS systems at ShoppingExpress.com.au http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/view/HP-Microservers-Sale?…

Some of the noteable ones:
N45L + 2TB NAS Seagate $339 - http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/hp-proliant-n54l-micro…

N54L + 2TB WD RED $349 - http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/hp-proliant-n54l-micro…

Gen8 G1610T $329 - http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/hp-proliant-microserve…

G8 G1610T + 2TB NAS Seagate $439 - http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/hp-proliant-microserve…

G8 G1610T + 2TB WD RED $449 - http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/hp-proliant-microserve…

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  • sonu1111 on 24/03/2014 - 14:40

    Is there free shipping for N54L + Red 2TB Hard Drive - $349?

  • scallywagmcgee3 on 24/03/2014 - 14:44

    Does anyone know if 2 of these will work in the N54L?

    http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/kingston-8gb-1x-8gb-pc…

    • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 24/03/2014 - 14:46
      +3

      The ram you linked works with N54L & G8 Microserver

    • cyclops on 24/03/2014 - 14:53

      Not sure the Spec says max Memory is 8 gb ram. 2 x 4 gb? So, might be max 4gb per slot.

      See: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13716_div/1371…

      But I saw a video on youTube says 16gb RAM used.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8tngCNaeSE

      Sorry can't help.

      • Boodek on 24/03/2014 - 15:10
        +1

        My N36L works quite nicely with 2 x 8Gb non-ECC Kingston RAM in it. WHS 2011 only sees 8Gb, but Server 2012 R2 sees 16Gb.

    • toliman on 25/03/2014 - 02:45

      Yes, it will also run with 16gb ECC if you want to run a RAID OS like FreeNAS and ZFS. or you can install WHS / Synology as Xpenology on the system for a trouble-free config.

      currently have 2 8gb ECC DRAM's in the N54L, Kingston KVR13E9-8I 8GB ECC Unbuffered (Arc Computers & others)

      and it runs FreeNAS and 5x 4tb WD Red drives with ZFS, which has extreme levels of data redundancy, i can take a drive out of the array, and it can rebuild any corrupted/ missing data within a few hours

      (usually 18 hours for the resilver of 16tb. it is a $200 system.)

  • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 24/03/2014 - 14:46
    +1

    Hi All,

    Just to clarify:
    Buy 2 Free Shipping promotion is only applicable to the options in the promotion page, Synology, Microserver & Microserver + HDD Combo deals on the page are excluded.

    Cheers
    SE

  • knackers on 24/03/2014 - 14:57
    +6

    My N40L has been going strong for 2 yrs. I love it

  • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 24/03/2014 - 15:07

    OP,

    I think the Hard Drive combos with N54L/G8 microserver are worthy of mentioning in this post as they attributed to further savings.

    regards
    SE

    • c0balt on 24/03/2014 - 15:14
      +1

      I added a few of the HDD + NAS combos to the OP. Let me know if there's any problems.

  • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 24/03/2014 - 15:18

    thanks OP.

    Also all Seagate drives offered are the Seagate NAS drives. they come with 5 years warranty and are built for NAS environment.

    cheers
    SE

  • CheapDave on 24/03/2014 - 15:33
    +4

    are there any upcoming Intel NUC deals?

    • MATTDAMON on 24/03/2014 - 15:35
      +2

      +1 to this.

      • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 24/03/2014 - 16:57

        any in particular?

        • MATTDAMON on 24/03/2014 - 17:03
          +1

          The D34010WYKH is what im looking at in particular. A nice deal with a 4gb stick of ram like you had the other week would be fantastic.

        • CheapDave on 24/03/2014 - 17:06
          +1

          Been waiting for the n2820 +4gb to come back on special

        • Hrnnghdeal on 24/03/2014 - 22:25

          D34010WYK (non-H)

        • vakarian32 on 24/03/2014 - 22:30

          I'd be interested in getting the D34010WYKH model too, a decent price with some RAM bundled and I might bite.

        • MATTDAMON on 27/03/2014 - 16:37

          So any updates on this OP?

  • OzBragain on 24/03/2014 - 15:37

    Hi Rep,

    Any chance of an N54L + 3TB WD RED combo finding it's way into this promo?

    Cheers

    • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 24/03/2014 - 15:57
      +3

      Hi Roscoe99,

      Can't do a combo for it today, but we've marked down the WD 3TB to $167 for the next 3 days. hope that helps.

      Cheers
      SE

      • frbargain on 24/03/2014 - 16:07

        Any chance for a sale on the 2tb RED?

      • OzBragain on 24/03/2014 - 16:17
        +1

        Thanks

  • berko_max on 24/03/2014 - 16:08

    what do people think of this HP v Synology 214play? Can't make up my mind! (No USB 3 on HP)

    • JimmyF on 24/03/2014 - 19:39
      +1

      totally different beasts. The HP one is BYO OS, while the Synology unit comes with a OS etc.

      I own a 4 bay synology and its the best! Haven't looked back since I brought it.

      • toliman on 25/03/2014 - 02:50

        you'd have to configure the N54L.

        that's about it.

        If you're comfortable about putting a file onto a USB pen drive, and following remote web installs, you could put Xpenology onto a USB, which uses the synology interface. best of both worlds.

        and you can put 5 drives into the N54L. or 4 drives and a DVD/Bluray reader.

        http://cyanlabs.co.uk/tutorials/install-xpenology-on-hp-n54l…

  • vjknight on 24/03/2014 - 16:15

    after taking advantage of the 320L double cashback deal over the weekend, I am now in the market for 2 x HDD's. anyone want to make recommendations please. total novice here.

    • toliman on 25/03/2014 - 03:21
      +2

      People will recommend lots of HDD's.

      Compare them by Price and Warranty.

      Cheapest by density is 3tb units, or 4tb units,

      average prices are

      $45-50/tb for WD Green /Seagate / Hitachi (
      $55-60/tb for WD / Seagate NAS
      $75/tb for WD Black

      WD Blue / Green - 2 years
      WD Red / Seagate – 3 years
      WD Black / Seagate NAS – 5 years

      If the drive dies or fails tests, they send you a refurbished drive.
      I have 4 refurbished seagate drives from last year, the warranty is important.

      The Western Digital Red series are designed to run in NAS units, i.e. they don't idle and spin down as much as the Green series (cheapest in the WD range), external hard drive units or laptop drives.

      W.D. also sell Blue (desktop) and Black (performance), and enterprise drives, which are just more expensive than the Black/Red series. Hitachi is WD now, so not a big change, but it's manufactured elsewhere.

      Seagate drives, while good, have a pretty high failure rate within the first year. they run faster though, so if you don't mind losing data, and want speed, go for the seagates

      :)

      • nuno on 25/03/2014 - 10:27

        What is the warranty period for standard Seagate drives? 1, 2, 3 years? doesnt really spell it out on their website.

        • MATTDAMON on 25/03/2014 - 15:35

          2 years i believe.

          Anyways for HDD's cant go past Toshiba/Hitachi drives, awesome BFYB and extremely reliable, ive got around 90 or so of Hitachi/Toshiba drives and zero failures or faulty disks yet.

  • nuno on 24/03/2014 - 16:23
    +1

    and to think I was going to order from Megabuy today. They pissed me off cause they wanted an extra delivery charge for a frigging hard drive. Shonky interwebz box movers! thanks ShoppingExpress.

  • espcookie on 24/03/2014 - 17:13

    Hey Rep - I have a couple of N40L's I purchased from you a while back still going strong and I am still filling them up and so have been considering some 3Tb drives. I like the Seagate NAS drive you have for $165 with a 5 year warranty (as the WD Red is 3 year) but where do you get this from? Looking at the Seagate website they only seem to quote these NAS drives as 3 year as well - http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/nas-drives/nas-h…

    Is there something I am missing or are both the Seagate and WD NAS drives just have 3 year (which may tip me back to the WD REDs)?

    • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 24/03/2014 - 17:34
      +1

      Hi espcookie,

      Scroll to the bottom of the Seagate Australia site

      There will be an indication that all NAS drive (up to 4TB capacity) have 5 year limited warranty and limited to Australia & New Zealand.
      "Hurray" for something exclusive for Aussies :)

      regards
      SE

      • espcookie on 24/03/2014 - 20:24
        +1

        Wow - nice to see that bonus 2 years for Aus/NZ! Ordered 2 just now with free postage - thanks Rep.

  • TimeOrMoney on 24/03/2014 - 18:33
    +2

    Looking for some 4TB drives for the microserver. Any deals or recommendations?

    • Bob81 on 24/03/2014 - 22:08
      +1

      Buy cheap external 4TB drives, remove the hard-drive from the case, install in your NAS, rinse repeat.

      http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Seagate-4TB-Expansion-USB-3-0-Ext…

      • Riczter on 24/03/2014 - 22:48

        Just be aware it usually voids the warranty

      • 2pro4sho on 24/03/2014 - 22:48

        Good price however IMO it is better to get NAS drives for a server running 24/7 that have 3-5 year warranty vs general use nosier drives with no warranty.

  • thekungfosing on 24/03/2014 - 20:13

    Not worried about putting anything more than 4gb of ram, anyone know which 2gb sticks I can use to accompany the 2gb it comes with?

  • sonu1111 on 25/03/2014 - 01:31

    Hi

    Any suggestion of websites/places for getting cheap genuine copy of Windows Server 2012.

    Is there much difference between 2008 and 2012 windows server. I am asking this as I have 2008 server windows. This is my first time I am setting up server. Would like to learn from installing and configuration.

    What would you guys recommend/suggest

    Thanks
    AJ

    • toliman on 25/03/2014 - 04:05
      +1

      You don't especially need 2012, unless you want to learn the basics.

      perhaps, if a budget is important, learning a linux/BSD OS, or vSphere ESXi and VM version of 2008/2012 may be more educational to run and test with. most small servers are moving to cloud infrastructure for backup/access, so the platform is becoming less important to users, as the data just needs to be private, secure, encrypted and stored. the rest is trivial or personal preferences.

      as for genuine and cheap, that is going to be a minefield for 2012 R2, which is $500 to $700.
      Yes it's available cheaper, is it genuine ? depends on how far you stretch the term.

      it can be obtained for free with dreamspark, it's genuine there.

      Specific advice can be found in
      http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/forum/87-windows…

      There's probably a dozen threads on whirlpool on finding places to obtain cheaper CAL's for 2012 R2 or 2012, i'd probably just advise to get a technet account or dreamspark (student at university) if you want to learn the OS, otherwise, it's $500 on amazon, or $1050 from the Microsoft AU store.. for Essentials R2.

  • frenchy on 25/03/2014 - 01:52

    Been wanted to get one of these for a while now so i just ordered one.
    Just a heads up I had an issue checking out with Paypal due to avast crashing the page, same issue with eBay had to disable it to process the order running windows 8.

  • Jayphen on 25/03/2014 - 11:13

    I have the old N36L running Ubuntu on a flash drive with 5 x 2TB drives (software RAID).

    If I just swapped everything to the N45L, would it just work TM?

  • NueLogic on 25/03/2014 - 15:00

    Would I be able to run the N54L with 4 x 4 TB HDD in a Raid 5 config using FreeNAS? I'm new to network attached storage :/

    • Riczter on 25/03/2014 - 19:39
      +1

      I'm not that familiar with RAID, but I don't see why not. I have an N54L and it handles 4TB drives fine.

    • Abaddon on 26/03/2014 - 16:33

      It should work. But really you shouldn't use it. The number of people I have met who have lost their data on Raid 5 just keeps climbing unfortunately.

      Here's some background on the problem:
      http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/raidfail-dont-use-raid-5-o…

      RAID 5 only protects against a single disk failure
      Disks are now so big that the chances of a URE make it all but useless.

      In your case, for the 3x4TB drives you need for a rebuild there is a:
      10^14bytes / 12TB * 100 = 94% chance that you will encounter a URE and the rebuild will fail (for full usage)

      So you might as well just raid zero the lot and rely on your backups (you have backups right?).

      Remember RAID is not for backup, it is either for performance or High Availability (and it's unlikely you'll need the latter at home, and the former is proably also not too important to you as you are considering Raid 5. Failing that your best options are raid 10 or 6

  • bostos on 25/03/2014 - 19:29

    any more stock for RAM 2Rx8KVR16E11/8I?
    I need 2

    • toliman on 25/03/2014 - 20:16

      For ECC ? it's about $120- $130 for each 8gb stick.

      e.g. http://www.arc.com.au/pub.php?pid=44791&p=product

      now, that's a different product ive linked, because the one you asked for, is a bit harder to source.

      Your indicated model is DDR3, 1600MHz, ECC, CL11, X8, 1.5V, Unbuffered, DIMM
      The KVR13E9/8I is DDR3, 1333MHz, ECC, CL9, X8, 1.5V, Unbuffered, DIMM

      so, slower, cheaper, but still ECC unbuffered. and available locally. if you're using the Gen8, you'd probably get more from the 1600MHz model, but you'd have to get it sent from the US/UK.

      the paired batches for ECC aren't sold in Australia, and generally, you'll have to order it in over 5 to 20 days. There's no decent distributor or warehouse to have an inventory of ECC, because most of their ECC stock is for ECC registered, which won't work. so it's a tough to get item.

      alternatively, try the suppliers and price compare on staticice.

      http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=KVR13E9%2F8…

      on that page, about 3/4 of the suppliers all use the same distributor, so results and order times will vary. for some.

      gocomp also has a broad list of ECC and ECC registered sticks if you need it, i.e.
      http://www.gocomp.com.au/index.php?cpath=product&catpath=0_1…

  • OzBragain on 26/03/2014 - 14:49

    Ordered Monday night, arrived this morning. Nice work SE

  • llllllllllllll on 26/03/2014 - 16:14

    Ordered, Tuesday 10:30AM, Received Wednesday 12:30PM (Melbourne).

    26 hours turn around, very nice work SE :) keep it up

  • nuno on 27/03/2014 - 11:13

    48 hours turnaround and that was using Direct Deposit. Well done SE.
    Now could you please do the promo again ASAP as I would like to pickup 2 more. :)

  • thekungfosing on 27/03/2014 - 18:46

    My order still says pick. First time ordering from them and after reading some reviews, I'm starting to worry.

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