Hard drives
Hard drives known to work in the N40L.
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).
| Brand | Model | Size | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Hitachi |
Desk Star (HDT725050VLA360) |
500GB | |
| Hitachi | 5K3000(HDS5C3020ALA632) | 2.0TB | |
| Hitachi | 7K3000 (HDS723020BLA642) | 2.0TB | |
| Hitachi | 5K3000 (HDS5C3030ALA630) | 3.0TB | |
| Hitachi |
Deskstar 5K4000 (HDS5C4040ALE630) |
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 | 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 | |
| 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 | 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 | WD30EFRX | 3.0TB | WD Red - Nas Hard Drive [1] |
| Western Digital | WD30EZRX | 3.0TB | |
| Western Digital | WD40EFRX | 4.0TB | WD Red - Nas Hard Drive |
| Western Digital | WD4000F9YZ | 4.0TB | WD SE Datacenter HDD [2] |