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I too have a nice new N40L on my desk to replace a IBM pc (firewall
ipcop) and 2 x IBM X346 servers. I have installed UFW for firewall
& virtualmin for my mail server and web server. Am hoping this
puppy will save me lots on power bills. Am hoping to migrate data
this weekend and bring it into production. I too am running Ubuntu
12.04 (no surprises there)<br>
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Cheers Cary<br>
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BTW I saw the blue HP light in the centre after I powered it up
& called it cyclops :)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/01/13 20:18, Stephen Rees-Carter
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<div dir="ltr">Hey Jared,
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<div style="">Just so you've got some context, I've got the N40L
model, running with 8GB RAM and 4x 2TB drives. 2 of the drives
are running btrfs as root (/), and the other two are /backup.
Everything else is stock, no custom RAID cards, etc.</div>
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how loud are they in real world applications?<br>
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<div style="">It's got a massive fan at the back, but it's
at the ambient fan noise level you easily ignore. The
drives are louder when they are doing lots of writes. In
fact, my laptop when it's running super hot is louder than
it. So I personally don't notice the noise coming from it.</div>
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what sort of network throughput do you see?<br>
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<div style="">I can't really comment on this one. I've never
noticed it to be an issue for anything I've used it for,
and I did have it as a VPN end point for my work at one
point so it saw a lot of data throughput without any
issues. Also, I usually have 2 VMs running in Virtual Box
on it and all three machines (host + 2x VMs) seem to be
quite responsive for my needs network-wise.</div>
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any surprises in the hardware running Ubuntu?</blockquote>
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<div style="">I've only tried 12.04 LTS, but it runs
flawlessly. Everything I've tried works without any
problems.</div>
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style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If
anyone has any insight I'd be interested, I'm looking for a
good balance between power consumption and enough power to
run a couple of other things that a basic NAS can't do.</span></blockquote>
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<div style="">Mine is typically running 12.04 with a minimal
LAMP server, backup server, general purpose SSH box, and
VirtualBox. There are usually two VMs running: my work
application dev server, which is heavily resource intensive
(HDD, CPU, and RAM), and a build server running Jenkins and
GitLab. I've had as many as 10 VMs running at once on it, but
it gets slow under a lot of load - which is to be expected
from only a 1.5 ghz dual core. I think it's a fantastic little
server, and worth it, especially for the price if you're after
a good little all-rounder. It's even got an internal USB stick
if you want to boot from a minimal USB (i.e. ESXi).</div>
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<div style="">If you need more RAM, you can put some 8GB sticks
in to get it up to 16, but I haven't experimented as some
chips don't work. If you need more CPU, get the N54L which is
more expensive but has a 2.2ghz dual core. But if you need
something for really CPU-heavy work, you might want something
else.</div>
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<div style="">Hope that helps, and isn't too much information.</div>
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<div style="">Thanks,</div>
<div style="">~Stephen</div>
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On 15 January 2013 20:11, Jared Norris <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jrnorris@gmail.com"
target="_blank">jrnorris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="h5">On 14 January 2013 18:34, Paul Gear <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:paul@libertysys.com.au"
target="_blank">paul@libertysys.com.au</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div class="h5">On 01/13/2013 01:42 PM, Tom Sparks
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based on an old thread I asked, Paul
replied with:<br>
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"i can vouch for the QNAP TS-219P and the
HP<br>
ProLiant Microserver as good options. The
former is a very small, quiet<br>
2-bay NAS - on mine i wiped the factory
firmware on and installed Debian<br>
squeeze. It's ARM-based, so its CPU power
is not great, but it does the<br>
job. The latter is an x86-64-compatible
server with 4 SATA bays and 1<br>
DVD-ROM bay. It has a dual-core AMD CPU
and so packs a pretty good<br>
punch. It's slightly larger and slightly
louder than the QNAP, but is<br>
much cheaper, more powerful, and more
expandable." -<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2012-January/007675.html"
target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2012-January/007675.html</a><br>
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It's nice to be quoted a year after the fact and
find the advice still relevant. :-D<br>
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I would still say the same, although given what
i'm doing with my systems nowadays, the 512 MB
RAM limitation on the QNAP and the price
advantage of the HP mean that i'm using the HPs
more. I just deployed one as a backup server at
a client site last week, with 4 x 3 TB drives in
RAID 5. It's still building the RAID set and
copying files in from an old system, so it's not
a speed demon, but it does the job nicely.<span><font
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Paul<br>
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They look like an intriguing piece of hardware. The
prices have dropped a lot since I last looked at them
and are making me wonder. I do have three questions for
those who own them though,</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">* how loud are they in real world
applications?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">* what sort of network throughput
do you see?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">* any surprises in the hardware
running Ubuntu?</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">If anyone has any insight I'd be
interested, I'm looking for a good balance between power
consumption and enough power to run a couple of other
things that a basic NAS can't do.</div>
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Regards,<br>
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Jared Norris<br>
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