Hard drives[]
Hard drives known to work in the HP MicroServer models.
Gen7 Compatibility[]
WD Green drives are not recommended at this present time due to firmware issues related to power down related to the RAID controller (this problem is not unique to N40L).
SSD[]
Brand | Model | Size | Comments |
---|---|---|---|
Crucial | M4 | 64GB | SSD: In ODD bay connected to internal SATA port. |
Crucial | M500 SSD | 240GB | SATA SSD disk. Directly connect to the sata slot, without support/adapter. |
Kingston | SH103S3120G | 128GB | SATA SSD disk. Directly connect to the sata slot, without support/adapter, as i couldn't find one that could align the SSD connector with the board connector |
ADATA | SP550 | 120GB | SSD: In ODD bay connected to internal SATA port. |
Intel | X25-M
(SSDSA2M160G2GC) |
160GB | SSD: In ODD bay connected to external SATA port with -esata adapter. |
Samsung | MZ7PC128 | 128GB | SSD: in ODD bay connected to internal SATA port |
HDD[]
Brand | Model | Size | Comments |
---|---|---|---|
HGST | HUH721212ALN600 | 12TB | 4 pcs in N54L |
HGST | HUH721212ALE601 | 12TB | 4 pcs in N40L |
Hitachi | Desk Star (HDT725050VLA360) | 500GB | |
Hitachi | HDS721010KLA330 | 1.0TB | |
Hitachi | 5K3000(HDS5C3020ALA632) | 2.0TB | |
Hitachi | 7K3000 (HDS723020BLA642) | 2.0TB | |
Hitachi | 5K3000 (HDS5C3030ALA630) | 3.0TB | |
Hitachi | Deskstar 5K4000 (HDS5C4040ALE630) | 4.0TB | |
Hitachi | Deskstar NAS (HDN724040ALE640) | 4.0TB | |
Hitachi | Desk Star 7k4000(HDS724040ALE640) | 4.0TB | |
Samsung | HD103UJ | 1.0TB | |
Samsung | HD154UI | 1.5TB | Sata 5400RPM (using 3 of them) |
Samsung | HD204UI | 2.0TB | SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen |
Samsung | MZ-7TE250BW | 250GB | SATA SSD disk. Directly connect to the sata slot, with adapter, as i couldn't find one that could align the SSD connector with the board connector |
Seagate | ST3320418AS | 320GB | Barracuda, 7200 rpm |
Seagate | ST3500418AS | 500GB | Barracuda, 7200 rpm |
Seagate | ST35000630NS | 500GB | |
Seagate | ST3750640AS | 750GB | |
Seagate | ST31000524AS | 1.0TB | |
Seagate | ST2000DL003 | 2.0TB | Barracuda Green, 5900 rpm |
Seagate | ST2000DL004 | 2.0TB | Barracuda Green, 5400 rpm (Samsung HD204UI) |
Seagate | ST2000DM001 | 2.0 TB | Barracuda, 7200 rpm, 64MB Cache |
Seagate | ST3000DM001 | 3.0TB | |
Seagate | ST4000DM000 | 4.0TB | Barracuda, 5900 rpm, 64MB Cache |
Seagate | ST4000VN000 | 4.0TB | NAS HDD, 6GB/s, 64MB Cache, 5900 rpm |
Seagate | ST8000AS0002 | 8.0TB | Archive, 6GBps, 128MB Cache, 5900 rpm |
Seagate | ST8000VN0022 | 8.0TB | IronWolf NAS, 6Gb/s, NCQ, 256MB Cache, 7200 rpm |
Seagate | ST1000NM0046 | 10.0TB | Enterprise v6 10 TB 256 MB cache, 7200 rpm |
Toshiba | DT01ACA200 | 2.0TB | |
Toshiba | DT01ACA300 | 3.0TB | |
Western Digital | WD3200AAKS | 320GB | Caviar |
Western Digital | WD5000AAKX | 500GB | Caviar Blue, SATA 3, 16MiB cache |
Western Digital | WD1001FALS | 1.0TB | |
Western Digital | WD10EAVS | 1.0TB | |
Western Digital | WD1003FBYX | 1.0TB | RE4 Enterprise Drive |
Western Digital | WD2002FAEX | 2.0TB | ZFS-friendly without ashift hack |
Western Digital | WD20EARS | 2.0TB | Also works on 5th SATA port with no BIOS modification |
Western Digital | WD20EARX | 2.0TB | |
Western Digital | WD20EFRX | 2.0TB | ZFS-friendly without ashift hack |
Western Digital | WD20PURX | 2.0TB | 64MB Cache, purple label |
Western Digital | WD30EFRX | 3.0TB | Issues with ESXi 5.5, WS2012R2, and RDM. ESXi 6.0 no issues. |
Western Digital | WD30EZRX | 3.0TB | |
Western Digital | WD40EFRX | 4.0TB | WD Red - Nas Hard Drive |
Western Digital | WD4000F9YZ | 4.0TB | WD SE Datacenter HDD [1] |
Western Digital | WD40PURZ | 4.0TB | 64MB Cache, purple label |
Western Digital | WD60EFRX | 6.0TB | RED |
Western Digital | WD80EMAZ | 8.0TB | 256MB Cache, white label (does not require 3.3v pin hack) |
Western Digital | WD80EFZX | 8.0TB | 128MB Cache, red label |
Western Digital | WD80EFAX | 8.0TB | WD Red - 256MB Cache |
Western Digital | WD161KRYZ | 16.0TB | WD Gold Enterprise Class - 512Mb Cache (works with N40l and Gen8) |
Gen8 Compatibility[]
SSD[]
SSD Brand | SSD Model | Size | Server Model | Server BIOS | OS | Table | Bootable | Remarks |
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Intel | 520 Series | 240.0GByte | G1610T | J06 | Windows Server 2016 | GPT | Yes | SSD: In ODD bay connected to internal SATA port. |
HDD[]
HDD Brand | HDD Model | Size | Server Model | Server BIOS | OS | Table | Bootable | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Seagate | ST3000VX002(CV13) | 3.0TByte | G1610T | J09 (HP) | Debian jessie (testing), amd64, 3.16 | GPT | Yes, grub2 | HP Controller in AHCI mode; 1 HDD in each 3.5" slot (4 drives) |
HGST | H3IKNAS500012872SE | 5.0TByte | G1610T | J09 (HP) | FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201502232343 | GPT | Yes, grub2 | HP Controller in AHCI mode; 1 HDD in each 3.5" slot (4 drives) |
Western Digital | WD40EFRX | 4.0TByte | G1610T |
J09 (HP) |
Windows 7 | GPT | N/A | HP Controller in AHCI mode |
Western Digital | WUH721414ALE6L4 | 14.0TByte | G1610T | J06 | Windows Server 2016 | GPT | N/A | CPU upgraded to Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz |