{"id":252,"date":"2015-07-20T18:38:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T17:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=252"},"modified":"2018-10-19T20:57:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:57:51","slug":"hp-microserver-n40-disk-upgrades-more-than-4-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/07\/20\/hp-microserver-n40-disk-upgrades-more-than-4-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"HP Microserver N40 Disk Upgrades &#8230;.. more than 4 disks ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use a HP Microserver N40 for use at our office.\u00a0\u00a0 Its a great peice of kit that I have had for a number of years and is used for a variety of purposes such as NAS, Media Sharing, Print\/File Server and Virtual Machine host&#8230;<br \/>\nI recently decided to upgrade from Windows Home Server 2011 to Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2, as well as some hardware upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly i found that Essentials 2012 R2 does not have a driver availible so support for this RAID card is not possible.\u00a0 One thought was to use the Server 2008 R2 X64 driver but sounds a bad idea to me.\u00a0\u00a0 I then decided to look at using Windows Server Storage Spaces which is a technology Microsoft have been working on for a long time.\u00a0 I had 2 x 4TB WD Green and 2 x 2TB WD Green drives in the 4 way SATA bay.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-251 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_21_50_pro-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_21_50_pro-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_21_50_pro-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_21_50_pro-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_21_50_pro.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/>Not wanting to install the OS on the 4TB drives, I decided to make use of a spare SSD.\u00a0 This was then connected to the motherboard SATA port.<br \/>\nI then realised there is an E-SATA port on the rear of the server.\u00a0\u00a0 With a bit of a Heath Robinson hack I managed to get this routed internally and then into a spare hot swap 3.5&#8243; bay I had spare that I installed into the CD Drive 5 1\/4&#8243; bay.\u00a0 The mod was to bend the left edge of the flap that covers the PCI slot screws outwards with a multitool which allows the E-SATA cable to be routed internally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_22_25_pro-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_22_25_pro-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_22_25_pro-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_22_25_pro-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wp_20150715_12_22_25_pro.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A quick addition of a SATA power splitter and job done.\u00a0\u00a0 Six drives in a four drive server !<br \/>\nI need to make sure recovery will work storage spaced going forward but the Heath Tools in Server Essentials seem to to quite good so time will tell.<br \/>\nLooking good so far&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use a HP Microserver N40 for use at our office.\u00a0\u00a0 Its a great peice of kit that I have had for a number of years and is used for a variety of purposes such as NAS, Media Sharing, Print\/File Server and Virtual Machine host&#8230; I recently decided to upgrade from Windows Home Server 2011 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,17],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-vmware-virtual-box-hyperv","category-windows","tag-hp-microserver","tag-hp-n40","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}