My hp 475 server died can I take my whs discs (4 of them they are all good) and just put them in this unit along with my usb drive?
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I can't tell you if the drivers are all compatible, however the N40L doesn't have an internal USB that I could find. You can have it on an external USB port if you like. If you're familiar with the HP site, you could download the necessary drivers and all should work well.
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Physically there is no problem. The N40 does SATA just fine. You will probably have to remount the drives in the provided caddies, which are not hot-swap. WHS may require a re-install, or at the minimum re-entry of the license key since there may be significant differences in drivers/etc., so I hope your data is is in a different partition on your boot drive than windows is. If your drives are RAID, there may be problems - I don't trust any RAID that isn't on a $400+ hardware only card. If you do have to re-install windows, there are 4 external USB and 1 internal USB ports - use one of those with a cheap USB drive for boot since a media server does not need a lot of performance on its boot device. If you like to tinker, this is a good platform. There is almost no internal room for expansion for cards, but I flashed the BIOS to support 6 drives, installed the SATA and power splitter cables, bumped RAM to 8GB, and it has been rock solid with Ubuntu 12.04 as a file server and backup. With 6 drives, so the 150W power supply is not a limiter for my middle of the road 2TB drives. There is a lot of how-to information on the internet. Good luck. Oh - and it is very quiet.
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you can remove the dvd drive and put a hdd caddy. I did it without problem.
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Yes, we sell HP External DVD-CD Burner drive at http://www.amazon.com/HP-USB-External-DVDRW-Drive/dp/B00IUUTYYU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1402975381&sr=1-1&keywords=B00IUUTYYU Regards, LGI Electronics
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Yes you can, we sell External DVD Burner at: http://www.amazon.com/HP-USB-External-DVDRW-Drive/dp/B00IUUTYYU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1402975381&sr=1-1&keywords=B00IUUTYYU Regards, LGI Electronics
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I used these drives in a BL870c. So i am not 100% sure. It shows up on the hard drive compatibility sheet. AS long as your server has Smart Array 5.x you should be fine. I personally would purchase this drive for the server you have knowing that worst case, you can return with no issue...http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/mostViewedDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=1121516&spf;_p.tpst=psiContentDisplay&spf;_p.prp_psiContentDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c00305257-384%257CdocLocale%253Den_US&java;x.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok;=com.vignette.cachetoken#N161AC I used these drives in a BL870c. So i am not 100% sure. It shows up on the hard drive compatibility sheet. AS long as your server has Smart Array 5.x you should be fine. I personally would purchase this drive for the server you have knowing that worst case, you can return with no issue...http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/mostViewedDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=1121516&spf;_p.tpst=psiContentDisplay&spf;_p.prp_psiContentDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c00305257-384%257CdocLocale%253Den_US&java;x.portlet.begCacheTo... » Read More I used these drives in a BL870c. So i am not 100% sure. It shows up on the hard drive compatibility sheet. AS long as your server has Smart Array 5.x you should be fine. I personally would purchase this drive for the server you have knowing that worst case, you can return with no issue...http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/mostViewedDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=1121516&spf;_p.tpst=psiContentDisplay&spf;_p.prp_psiContentDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c00305257-384%257CdocLocale%253Den_US&java;x.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok;=com.vignette.cachetoken#N161AC « Show Less
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Yes as long as they were independently formatted and were previously accessible. I've done this. I had 4 usb enclosures. I pulled out the HDDs and placed them all into this enclosure, and it works on USB.
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probably if you can get it work at all! Every restart I did resulted in it loosing the date and needing reformat (that was two new drives! both same problem).
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Sorr y my first answer was not complete. You can down load software for wd and seagate drives that will recognize and format them.
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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I've had bad luck trying to install from a usb drive, had to use the original dvd. Another possiblility is occasionally windows 7 does not have the correct ahci/raid drivers, but it should ask for them if needed.
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Shouldn't auto format but would most likely give you the option to format/wipe both drives as WHS partitions are not supported.
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Call them. Always have 2 backups! I lost a lot of data with that hard drive, mine failed after a short time
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First: do not open the drive until you check the warranty with WD. If the drive was made for HP or Dell good luck. Since my drive was still sealed I was able to send it back to the seller and they paid shipping. If I had to buy another drive I will go to Newegg.com.
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Hi There. I am afraid I do not have the drive with me as I installed in to a server. Sorry. :(
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You can read them on a Linux box or any PC booted with rescue Linux cd. There are guides on how to do this. or buy used on ebay for $60 (that's what I did) or send your drives to someone who has similar hp unit
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You shouldn't have to. Try a different port. And also wait up to 60 seconds for the drive to be recognized.
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I used these drives in a BL870c. So i am not 100% sure. It shows up on the hard drive compatibility sheet. AS long as your server has Smart Array 5.x you should be fine. I personally would purchase this drive for the server you have knowing that worst case, you can return with no issue... http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/mostViewedDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=1121516&spf_p.tpst=psiContentDisplay&spf_p.prp_psiContentDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c00305257-384%257CdocLocale%253Den_US&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken#N161AC