It is a long time! But looking at new NAS boxes the one thing that truly impresses me (in the wrong way) is the horribly big price for what is essentially a very simple PC. The CPUs in modern NAS aren't exactly a huge advance on an ancient Turion unless one needs to perform video transcoding on the ...

Just posting to confirm that an Akasa Apache Black 120mm works great in my N40L. The pin out mod is very easy, thanks to everyone for the info. The fan is essentially silent; I could just about hear it when I tried it outside of the case and it was right next to my ear. 1 foot away and I can't hear ...