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Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8

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On 24/04/2026 13:17, Jeff Gaines wrote:
> On 24/04/2026 in message <Pdj*iBTEA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> Theo 
> wrote:
> 
>> Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> My 2 x Gen8 Microservers are turning out to be a massive 
>>> disappointment. I
>>> hoped they would be a bit more responsive than the N54L but they don't
>>> seem to be. The non standard screws on the drive carriers seem 
>>> impossible
>>> to obtain and this morning I installed my new 6 TN Iron Wolf which had
>>> taken 12 hours to load up on another machine and the Gen8 balked and
>>> chopped it into 2 x unreadable partitions.
>>
>> Erm, the Gen8 should be fine at talking to 6TB drives.  It's the software
>> you run on it that has decided to do weird partitioning things.  What are
>> you running?  If it's Windows, have you thought about running something
>> else?
>>
>> Have a look at TrueNAS Community which is free and a nice NAS
>> appliance distro, a bit similar to Synology or QNAP.  It'll also run VMs,
>> Docker and LXC containers.
>>
>>> I am running up my No.2 N54L which is suppose to be able to read 
>>> drives up
>>> to 8 TB and has sensible drive carriers.
>>
>> I've had 14TB drives in my N36L and it's fine.  Of course I'm running 
>> Linux
>> where there are no such artificial limits.  (I believe FreeBSD eg TrueNAS
>> Core would be fine too).
>>
>>> A thought before I proceed. I have a couple of Lenovo Tiny M92e PCs with
>>> i7 3.4 GHz which are very sprightly. Would one of those with a USB3 DAS
>>> hanging off it work as a server for data/multimedia? I need to split my
>>> server and backup to ensure I don't put old data over new.
>>
>> Generally speaking, Proper SATA beats USB any day. However if you're not
>> driving it hard (no RAID, no ZFS) then you may get away with it.
>>
>> The M92e uses the same Ivy Bridge generation CPU as the Gen8 - have you
>> thought about swapping the i7 into the Gen 8?  You'd need to check 
>> thermals
>> as I'm not sure what TDP the Gen8 chassis is rated for.
>>
>> Or maybe make the Gen8 the fileserver running TrueNAS and an M92e running
>> Windows as a client?
>>
>> Theo
> 
> Many thanks Theo :-)
> 
> Google AI says the Gen8 balks at larger drives, one day I will learn to 
> research then buy! My N54L recognises it fine so I am re-loading it 
> across the network which will be a good test for it. I want a machine 
> that I can manage easily so its Win 10. I do have an N54L running Linux 
> Mint xfce but I use it as a one trick pony to produce iso files.
> 

I run a Gen8 Microserver (Ubuntu Server) and have no issues with large 
drives. "2 X Unreadable Partitions"? You may want to consider a better 
OS ;-)

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HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-24 11:18 +0000
  Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-04-24 12:59 +0100
    Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-24 12:17 +0000
      Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 jkn <jkn+nin@nicorp.co.uk> - 2026-04-24 21:00 +0100
        Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-24 21:12 +0000
          Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-04-25 12:23 +0100
            Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-25 13:07 +0000
              Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-25 14:18 +0100
                Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-04-25 14:53 +0100
                Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-25 14:29 +0000
                Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-25 14:28 +0000
  Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 Raj Kundra <raj@kundracomputers.co.uk> - 2026-04-27 20:47 +0100
    Re: HP Microserver N65L -v- Gen8 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-29 11:28 +0000
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