Category: Review

Setting up users and shares on the QNAP TS-269L

Setting up users and shares on the QNAP TS-269L

In part 1 of my review of the QNAP TS-269L I did the unboxing and initial setup here. In part 2 of my review I want to show you how easy it is to set up users and shares with the help of wizards that QNAP has created in their software.  I will introduce you [...]

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Performance Comparison of a Modified HP EX-487 and the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer & the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

Performance Comparison of a Modified HP EX-487 and the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer & the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

By: John Stutsman After working with Intel’s NAS Performance Toolkit in testing the performance of the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer (“N40L”) and the HP ProLiant N54L MicroServer (“N54L”) I became curious to see how my HP Media Smart Server EX-487, which had been modified up from Stock, would perform compared to the MicroServer’s.   Note: [...]

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Performance Comparison of Windows Home Server 2011 on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer & HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

Performance Comparison of Windows Home Server 2011 on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer & HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

By: John Stutsman After posting Performance Comparison of Windows Server 2012 Essentials on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer I wanted to continue with similar performance tests of Windows Home Server 2011 (“WHS-2011”). The NAS Performance Toolkit (“NASPT”) v1.7.1 is the same test as described in the previous posting [...]

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Moving my Windows Home Server 2011 to the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

Moving my Windows Home Server 2011 to the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

By: John Stutsman   Last July, 2012, I wrote about how I Installed Windows Home Server 2011 on a 60GB SSD in a HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and using that as my primary home server. More recently in March, 2013, I wrote about Updating my Windows Home Server 2011 installed on the HP ProLiant N40L [...]

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Performance Comparison of Windows Server 2012 Essentials on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

Performance Comparison of Windows Server 2012 Essentials on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer

By: John Stutsman One of the things I wanted to do with the HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer was compare it’s performance to its predecessor HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer. In a previous writing I compared the rated performance of the CPU’s that showed the N54L scoring 43% higher than the N40L on benchmark tests accumulated [...]

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Performance Measurement of the HP ProLiant N40L and N54L G7 MicroServer and Other NAS Devices

Performance Measurement of the HP ProLiant N40L and N54L G7 MicroServer and Other NAS Devices

By: John Stutsman   We all want to know how our MicroServer’s and other Machines compare in performance and how this performance is impacted by different hardware, storage drives, OS’s, drive extender replacements, RAID configurations, etc. Dave, Chris, and I thought it would be useful to build a jumping off point (a Start Menu of [...]

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QNAP TS-269L Turbo NAS Unboxing and Initial Setup

QNAP TS-269L Turbo NAS Unboxing and Initial Setup

The Home Server Show Podcast is always looking for new storage hardware to try out and review for our listeners.  While at CES 2013 Dave stopped by the QNAP booth and talked with them about their line of network attached storage (NAS) devices. QNAP has been generous enough to send us a 2-bay TS-269L Turbo [...]

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ADATA DashDrive Air AE400 Review

ADATA DashDrive Air AE400 Review

I had a chance to speak with ADATA at CES 2013 and was impressed at some of their offerings.  Specifically, with a little box that could charge a phone and stream video at the same time.  I knew I wanted to get my hands on one! This thing can do it all.  You can use [...]

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HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer — First Look

HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer — First Look

The HP ProLiant N54L G7 MicroServer looks exactly like its predecessor HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer. I chose to wait on flashing the BIOS-MOD — electing instead to do some testing with the stock HP BIOS which, by-the-way, is the same as the stock BIOS ( #O41 July 29, 2011 – see Figure 10) that came [...]

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Updating my Windows Home Server 2011 installed on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer

Updating my Windows Home Server 2011 installed on the HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer

  Last July, 2012, I wrote about how I Installed Windows Home Server 2011 on a 60GB SSD in a HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer and using that as my primary home server. During Home Server Show 216 I talked about several updates I had done including how I replaced my 60GB OS drive with a [...]

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