Re: [LUG] Desktop Linux

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/12/13 11:59, peter walker wrote:

On 25 Dec 2013, at 11:56, Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 25/12/13 11:35, peter walker wrote:

On 25 Dec 2013, at 11:29, Daniel Robinson <manipula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Okay... Pretty sure the cheap one for sale at dabs and ebuyer specifly only 1 sata port. If i am wrong then I will consider the HP again.

It might only have 1 SATA port but it has 4 hot swap bays in the front. You mount the disks in a plastic caddy.

Daniel's right inasmuch as Ebuyer only list the single bay N54L, G2020T and G1610T - at least Ebuyer's descriptions say they only have one bay[1].  They don't stock the N36L or, it seems, any of the multi-bay servers.  However I think the mistake was in assuming all Microservers are the same, evidently not from the description of the N36L.

http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-hp-proliant-g7-n54l-2-2ghz-microserver-ebuyer-704941-421 

"Up to four LFF SATA pluggable hard disks and up to 8 GB of RAM give you room to grow"

£179 - £50 cashback if you buy now

Ahh... beg pardon.. in the description at the top they say '1 x 250Gb HD..' which gives the misleading impression that's all it will take.  What it should says is something like '4 bays, 3 free, 1 with 250Gb HD'.. otherwise people trawling through many products not having time to read every detail might skip these believing the top line description.

Julian

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