Western Digital DX4000 NAS

A pretty interesting little box, it is a four bay SATA NAS box, powered by an Intel Core 2 Atom 1.8ghz processor and 2gb of ram.  The OS is Windows 2008 R2 Storage Server Essentials.  We discovered that it runs better with more ram (duh!).  This machine comes with a single 2gb DDR2  DDR3 sodimm module; I replaced it with a 4gb module, unfortunately it has been reported by others that it will not see 8gb.  :S  BTW, there was no stickers or any other "Warranty Void if Seal Broken" items disturbed by removing the cover!

Here is a good review of the appliance.

http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_sentinel_dx4000_review

Another interesting point is that this particular one is the 16tb raw model, it comes preconfigured for RAID5, aka 12tb usable.  The drives used are HGST, which is actually a Hitachi drive.  Hitachi was absorbed by Western Digital not that long ago.

Pay to use SAS on a new server?!?! WTF HP?

HP Proliant G8 servers, the "entry level" ones have a fully functioning RAID card, but if one wants to use SAS drives, one must purchase a $100 license key. 

In addition to needing a license key for the ability to use SAS drives on the RAID card.  If one wants redundant power supplies, there is a different “cage” and a yet another license key required to make it work.

 

What a bunch of cr@p!   Looks like another way HP wants to squeeze more money out of us.