February 20, 2014

HP Microserver N54L vs Acer EasyStore H340

Hello folks!

Recently I bought a new micro server, an HP N54L.
It is the last one of the 7th generation of microservers from HP (here you can find all the specs), after the well known and sold N36L and N40L.

I bought it because I need to expand my storage and my actual storage server (Acer EasyStore H340) is too cpu-limited to handle esternal e-sata cases.

As far I can see the HP microserver outperform the Acer microserver in every situation, even on power consumption!

I didn't do a lot of test, I simply copied the same files across the two servers to see the difference: 99 Mbyte/sec for the HP and 65 Mbyte/sec for the Acer.

I'll keep you updated!