[Nottingham] HP are doing their £100 cashback offer again

[Dan Caseley]

How does power consumption differ from a desktop PC, or from a retail NAS
like a Synology?

At the moment I'm using a desktop PC as a NAS and feeling perpetually
guilty over the carbon footprint when I could/should be using an actual
NAS...

Dan

On 6 Jun 2013 00:16, "Duncan" wrote:
>
> On 04/06/13 18:30, Jason Irwin wrote:
> > If you are the market for a medium project box/server/nas/thing, HP are
> > offering £100 cashback on the HP Microserver N54L G7 (offer end 30th
> > June 2013).  Brings it down to £100-ish.  Add some cheap-y Kingston RAM,
> > HDDs and yer away.
> >
http://www.serversdirect.co.uk/Hewlett_Packard_HP_Micro_G7_N54L_NHP_250GB_EU_Svr_704941-421/version.asp
> > and
> >
http://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/hp_tower_servers/704941-421
> > Loads of other places, shop around.
> >
> > Not Pi prices, but it's not trying to be a Pi either.
> >
> > I'm running the older N36L (which is also still on sale, don't buy the
> > wrong one) and am very happy with it.  Perfect for virtualised Apache
> > servers. :-)
> >
> > Just thought some folks might be interested.
>
> Thanks Jason,
> That'll put my spare HDD (from other failed NAS boxes) to use.
>
> Have fun,
> Duncan
>
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