Comments on: First Looks: Thecus N7700PRO

By: @eaegis

@eaegis — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:26:39 +0000

The N7700PRO has its own independent NAS O/S and hence does not require or allow for other O/S install like OpenFiler or WHS.

PxxCxx — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:48:29 +0000

Can this server be installed with OpenFiler?

Tom — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:28:22 +0000

Cheers Terry. I'll go for the HP then and save some cash.

GeirK — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:11:56 +0000

Still, who have a 10GbE switch?

tezzer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:25:45 +0000

Not easily, but I have heard of WHS being installed on NAS drives – usually the processors are lacking sufficient power.

Tom — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:20:42 +0000

Can WHS be installed on this machine?

Tom — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:19:06 +0000

Sorry im new to this. How would I install WHS onto this machine. I have the WHS OEM.

urmaster — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:00:41 +0000

That was my first thought too, but the manufactures website only lists gigabit. It is 10GbE i checked a third party.

K.Rock — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:55:19 +0000

I think it is supposed to be listed as 10GbE…
Making the theoretic limit of 1250MB/s

My current 1Gb on my WHS maxes out at 74.5MB/s. Basically at this point it is purely bottle necked at disk speed.

urmaster — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:46:04 +0000

Hehe I think a mistake on the manufacturers part. They confused internal transfer rates with network rates.

GeirK — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:16:23 +0000

the N7700PRO can reach data transfer speeds of over 300MB/s by adding a PCI-e 1Gb Ethernet adapter!

How can it get 300MB/s on 1Gb ethernet? When the maximum transfer speed of 1Gb is about 119MB/s (theoretic)?

JohnCz — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:32:40 +0000

Cool. I look forward to seeing WHS run on this. How can Windows Home Server take advantage of the Disk-on-Module?