Everyone knows the N40L
They're on managers special in north ryde on Epping road, nsw. Accross from officeworks and Harvey Norman.
Just finally bought one! Impressed how small it is :-)
There were about 20 on the shop floor 30 min ago
Edit, no drive in this one. Theyhalos have in store a 250gig version for $288, which isn't a bargain.
good price if you can pick it up
I gave north Ryde a call (after speaking with the Call centre). I can confirm it is in-store only, and they will not allow pick-up from other stores at this price.
So good for anyone local. +1
Where's the +1.
Please educate me. What do you guys use this for?
Duh, DIY porn site ofcourse….
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ohhh you just wait…
Spiderpig, spiderpig, does whatever, spiderpig does! can he swing, from a web, no he can't, he's a pig, look out…….. he is a spiderpig!
An always-on NAS/media server/torrent box/etc. So you don't have your files spread across different computers in your home.
nvm. found the answer. google is my friend.
women love men with servers.
Basically for storing large files on the network. This way you can share all your documents so on any computer you can grab them. Many people rip their bluray/dvd collections to disk, then access via a media centre.
Please educate me. What do you guys use this for?
It's a …(wait for it)… server.
But if you have to ask the question, you probably don't need one. :-)
i use mine as home theatre . bought a fan less graphics card for 1080 video. Plugs straight into my av receiver via hdmi for bit streaming audio for all the new dolby and dts codecs. wicked surround sound.also plenty of space for my movie collection on the drive bays
Home theater media server. All my videos, pix, music from one box. And not only that, since it's on the home network so anything with a screen and WiFI (smartphones, laptops, netbooks, tablets) can be watching/listening at the same time (different things as well).
I'm putting my DVD collection on it. Once that is done a whole closet full of DVDs can be packed away. That is something my wife LIKES very much.
Got one. Thanks OP!
Some people are just dumb "shipping starts from $9.85"…
Let's add $189 and $9.85 shall we?
Ok, poor choice of wording…
Beaten for the 19+ million Australians who do not live close to North Ryde, as they cant get this deal. ;-)
Seriously? I set one up at a steam powered grain mill to monitor the screw movement
So basically it can be used anywhere a normal PC can, if "you don't get it" you would be better off with one of those cheap $250 laptop's as these things are for computer technicians that have a very specific purpose or nerds who like to think they are technicians and waste money
FYI
- No PSU redundancy
- BIOS seems to reset the HDD interface at times
- Comes with poor graphics
- Supports only low profile PCIe
- CPU is not crash hot
- Short and fat, not rack mountable
- No DVD-ROM drive included
It's popular but actually pretty crap if you really get to the details
And before people chime in with "It does RAID" you can connect a few 3TB USB3 drives to netbook and achieve the same, just install Linux and monitor the SMART status
dude this is not a high end system. i use mine as a htpc. many other for a nas or general home server. perfect for the job and a good price
Balance of power & energy efficiency (major point).
web site says North Ryde has no stock?
All sold out in store this morning already. But may be more coming in or you can pay to deliver from warehouse.
I use two of these as fileservers and they are great. I used one very briefly as a htpc but sold it, worst thing is there is no sleep function which makes this terrible for a htpc
I'm pretty new to these but isn't that basically what the Wake on LAN mode is for? It gets put into a low(er) power mode?
Wake on Lan is a 'power switch push' by sending a special network packet (called a Magic packet). The machine can be completely off and still be turned on this way.
Why is sleep function so important? It works very nicely as a HTPC especially when you add a video card with HDMI out. Many people use them as HTPCs and even if it's on it's not using much more power than a single light bulb (often less than a single light bulb).
It still supports hibernate and you can still power on with a Wake on Lan packet.
Thanks! I was able to picked one up earlier.
That's an extremely cheap price, perhaps they are finally winding out the old stock for a new model.
Goddamn I hope so, I really do :(
There's rumours of an N54L running over 2GHz in a few months 'on teh interwebs'
Unfortunately that rumour is nearly a year old, I'm all over this stuff :( it's 2.2ghz and that CPU required too many watts to be cooled passively.
HP used them in testing in the labs when making the microservers and infact it's accidentally included in some screenshots for documentation but the likely thing is the next one will be based on something entirely different. I have a contact at HardOCP who has provided me a little bit of information that it's being worked on at least but he can't give much more than that.
I'm gathering it's likely an intel platform and continues on more of a server focus unfortunately - so I'd guess near double the price unfortunately.
Hi Guys,
This Great deal is back in stock but is selling very quick, so grab them while you can.
Nope, in-stock, but the price was put back up to $248. EXPIRED. Thanks though. I'm buying 2 of these next time it comes up.
In stock again at north ryde only. $198 managers special. no hard drive. This special is not listed on the website - must go to the store. Picked one up Wednesday afternoon. They have about 40 in stock. Get them whilst they last.
Confirmed still available on Friday 2nd, just picked mine up and they still had a stack of them there at $198.
Confirmed. I purchased 2 just now. They had at least 10 left. I took a photo - lol! Thanks all for confirming stocks in real-time :)
Hi everyone,
We'll be posting a deal for you on Wednesday morning - keep an eye out.
Bring on the Wednesday deal! :)
*confused
Just got the mailout from HT
the N40L is still 198 with 40+ stock available in store at North Ryde
I was gonna post up my first submission but then the intelligent deal tracker showed me this page :(
Apparently it's only on for today at this price - does that warrant a new post about it?
http://www.ht.com.au/cart/1/part/AJ555-HP-MICROSERVER-AMD-N4…
Special for Thursday 8th November 2012 only, or while stocks last. Hurry offer ends 11.59PM 8/11/12
HP MICROSERVER AMD-N40L(1/1)2GB(1/2), LFF-SATA(0/4)-3.5, 1Yr
All out@ Nth ryde :-(
I went yesterday and they had 15 at least in-stock.
They were listed on their website at $198 a few days ago as well, but now they appear to have gone up to $248. They may still be $198 in store, but if you want one I'd get in quick before they push their prices back up like they did on the website.