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Unpacking, USB Flash Drives (2GB) internal "install", screws and insert HDD disks in the drive caddy: hardware installation finished.
Incidentally NAS4free burned to CD (or to another USB flash drive).

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information and other sites via Yahoo to install and settings of NAS4Free,
System installed, made a few settings for NAS4free (hard drives formatted), copies data to the N54L, linking
applied on laptop, ready.

With standard HP BIOS:
+ Up to 16GB ECC / non-ECC
+ Up to 4x 4TB HDD, upon removal of the ODD / DVD drive + 1 additional HDD in max. 3.5 "format
+ Or DVD Slimlaufwerk + 2.5 "HDD to DVD-drive bay: Workaroud on community homepages, adapter frame is required

With modded BIOS
+ Hot-swappable
+ ODD Bay up to 4x 2.5 "HDD a 2TB currently
+ ESATA port Mulitplier

With NAS4free I reach up to 100MB / s data transfer on Gigaport router,
Temperatures of HDDs (WD-red 1x2TB and 1x3TB)
21 ° C / 22 ° C idle
30 ° C / 32 ° C load (continuous data access)

-> Unconditional recommendation from me in terms of good performance, easy Adnministrierung,
-> Run with almost any OS:

Windows
Vista (source 1)
7 (source 2)
Home Server (WHS) (source 1 2 3)
Server 2008 R2 (certified - source 1)
Server 2012 (source 1)
Server 2012 R2 / Win 8.1 * Bios update on 10.01.2013 (A) (November 15, 2013) needed to operate the NIC *

Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (certified)
Open Media Vault (Source 1) * Instructions *
Openfiler (source 1)
DiskStation Manager DSM 4.2 (manual)

Solaris
Solaris 11 (source 1)
OpenSolaris (source 1)
FreeNAS (source 1)
NAS4Free (source 1) * Instructions *
FreeBSD (source 1)
Openindina / EON 1.0 (source 1)
Napp-it to Go (Source + Image 1)