Very useful little fileserver. It has been available with £100 cashback from approved resellers in the UK for a couple of years now. I bought my last one from serversplus.com

Watch out for amazon.co.uk sellers as they probably aren’t eligible for the HP cashback offer(selling parallel imported N40Ls) and it will end up costing you more….

The thread that started my interest in these devices is the great ‘Tim’s Tiddler‘ one on avforums. Once you have flashed the BIOS and unlocked the extra speed on the optical drive SATA port you can add even more drives to this little beast. There are x4 3.5″ drive slots in the main bay and in the top 5.25″ section you can have an optical drive, x2 3.5″ or 2.5″ or a combination of the two depends on the brackets you get. I’ve even seen a setup with x6 2.5″ drives in there!. to run a 6th drive you need to use an eSATA to SATA cable and need an extra molex>SATA power splitter

I have installed a passive radeon 6450 and upgraded to 8Gb of RAM although some folk have had success with 16Gb kits