HP ProLiant MicroServer

zuroph

I've read of a good few people doing it and it was fairly quiet, but I could out elsewhere in house to serve both purposes really

ballooba

Any tips on where best to get this at the moment?

EDIT: And any definitive answer on if it can be bought from UK seller?

MartMax

Should have had installed SABnzbd+ SickBeard and CouchPotato when I first got the N36L microserver a year ago! Got them done today and I am in love again!

As a NAS it's fairly quiet standing next to the TV set.

Ebuyer has it for 240 sterling if you elect for 5-days free shipping. Less a cash back of 100 pound it would be 140 pound. Not sure fo definite thou if you can avail this buying from Ireland.

PlanIT Computing

Have a test bed running windows 2008 & citrix fundamentals 6 - no issues at all.

mcgovern

MartMax wrote: »

Should have had installed SABnzbd+ SickBeard and CouchPotato when I first got the N36L microserver a year ago! Got them done today and I am in love again!

As a NAS it's fairly quiet standing next to the TV set.

Ebuyer has it for 240 sterling if you elect for 5-days free shipping. Less a cash back of 100 pound it would be 140 pound. Not sure fo definite thou if you can avail this buying from Ireland.

Try Headphones if you like those. Similar idea but for music. I've mine setup similar but Transmission instead of SABnzbd.

MartMax

It's officially 120 euro cash back got extended this month.

http://www.hpshop.ie/products.asp?partno=658553%2D421
including shipping and VAT is 350 euro. so after cash back 230 euro.

this is the September cash back claim form for Irish market
http://www.hpshop.ie/Microserver.pdf

M

Zardoz

MartMax wrote: »

It's officially 120 euro cash back got extended this month.

http://www.hpshop.ie/products.asp?partno=658553%2D421
including shipping and VAT is 350 euro. so after cash back 230 euro.

So its gone up over 70 euro since last month .
Its not worth 230 euro to be honest.

ballooba

I bought it from Amazon for 220 GBP last week. Will I get cashback?

PCDub

Zardoz wrote: »

Its not worth 230 euro to be honest.

+1
Got mine for 140 after discount awhile back and imho thats what theyre worth.

ArtyM

Saw this listed on ebuyer 239stg less 100 cashback. Never dealt with ebuyer myself but maybe worth checking out.
Link
http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant-turion-ii-n40l-microserver-100-cashback-658553-421

Also notice they are doing an Ml110 G7 dual core for only 229, less 100 cashback. Also a great price
Link
http://www.ebuyer.com/320819-hp-proliant-ml110-g7-g840-tower-server-470065-612

Delivery prices are decent but it seems you may need a NI address - will call to confirm

ArtyM

iggy

ArtyM wrote: »

Saw this listed on ebuyer 239stg less 100 cashback. Never dealt with ebuyer myself but maybe worth checking out.
Link
http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant-turion-ii-n40l-microserver-100-cashback-658553-421

Also notice they are doing an Ml110 G7 dual core for only 229, less 100 cashback. Also a great price
Link
http://www.ebuyer.com/320819-hp-proliant-ml110-g7-g840-tower-server-470065-612

Delivery prices are decent but it seems you may need a NI address - will call to confirm

ArtyM

You could use Parcel Motel to get it delivered .

TheDoc

Interested but not for €200+

Will keep an eye and see, thought HP were clearing their retail hardware so thought this stuff would be going for pennies

Sir Oxman

ArtyM wrote: »

Saw this listed on ebuyer 239stg less 100 cashback. Never dealt with ebuyer myself but maybe worth checking out.
Link
http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant-turion-ii-n40l-microserver-100-cashback-658553-421

Also notice they are doing an Ml110 G7 dual core for only 229, less 100 cashback. Also a great price
Link
http://www.ebuyer.com/320819-hp-proliant-ml110-g7-g840-tower-server-470065-612

Delivery prices are decent but it seems you may need a NI address - will call to confirm

ArtyM

Cashback available only to end-users based in the UK according to the T&C's?

howamidifferent

Hope this isn't against the rules but I have 2 for sale on adverts.ie if anyone is interested. Both currently still in service.

http://www.adverts.ie/2089837

ballooba

I have this all set up now using unraid, but I am going to run out of HDD space fairly quickly. Any bargains on drives?

I emailed the cashback guys and they said to submit the UK cashback form and I will get it to my ROI address.

vibe666

ArtyM wrote: »

Also notice they are doing an Ml110 G7 dual core for only 229, less 100 cashback. Also a great price
Link
http://www.ebuyer.com/320819-hp-proliant-ml110-g7-g840-tower-server-470065-612

that's a great price for the ML110 G7, I have a G6 and it's a great server. I was hoping to get a 2nd one, but I might just go for 2 G7's at that price and sell on the G6.

looks like you could upgrade the CPU to anything up to a 3.7Ghz quad core Xeon E3-1200 v2 which would be nice and i'd say you could probably push that 16gb RAM limit up to 32gb down the road if the mood took you, as they said the old G6 would only do up to 8gb, but it's grand with 16 and maybe even more.

for that money for the base unit though is a great price (with the cashback).

just have to arrange delivery to here by other means as ebuyer don't do it any more.

Do-more

vibe666 wrote: »

that's a great price for the ML110 G7, I have a G6 and it's a great server. I was hoping to get a 2nd one, but I might just go for 2 G7's at that price and sell on the G6.

looks like you could upgrade the CPU to anything up to a 3.7Ghz quad core Xeon E3-1200 v2 which would be nice and i'd say you could probably push that 16gb RAM limit up to 32gb down the road if the mood took you, as they said the old G6 would only do up to 8gb, but it's grand with 16 and maybe even more.

for that money for the base unit though is a great price (with the cashback).

just have to arrange delivery to here by other means as ebuyer don't do it any more.

Am I missing something or has it gone up?

Showing at £410 now before the cash back.

zuroph

zuroph wrote: »

could anyone tell me, I've been considering buying this for use as home theatre pc. It would sit at the tv, where the upc supply comes in, so it would manage all downloads etc for the network. I've bought a blackgold 3600 tv card...from their site

Please be aware that for DVB-S/S2 operation you will need to connect a 6 pin PCI-express power cable to the card, in order to provide power for your satelite dish LNB. BGT3600 LNB Power

So is there any spares in there that I can use to connect to this to supply the power or am i out of luck?

I'd also be jamming a graphics card in there to supply the hdmi out

Anyone know?

vibe666

Do-more wrote: »

Am I missing something or has it gone up?

Showing at £410 now before the cash back.

ah gutted, it's gone up.

why oh why didn't i just buy a couple of them and stop procrastinating?

£229 with free UK delivery plus £100 cashback was an amazing deal.

davidsatelle100

Can you upgrade the processor in these ?? Anyone done it or have any recommendations??

vibe666

davidsatelle100 wrote: »

Can you upgrade the processor in these ?? Anyone done it or have any recommendations??

don't think so on the microserver, at least not from the googling i've done.

you can on the ML110's though. the G6's are socket 1156 and the G7 is a socket 1155.

ballooba

I haven't had an opportunity to post on this, but I got confirmation on Friday that I had been approved for UK cashback. I bought off Amazon UK.

pissed

showing at £216.98 on amazon at the moment .

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ProLiant-N40L-2GB-U-250GB-MicroServer/dp/B005LRCASM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348524165&sr=8-1

ballooba

pissed wrote: »

showing at £216.98 on amazon at the moment .

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ProLiant-N40L-2GB-U-250GB-MicroServer/dp/B005LRCASM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348524165&sr=8-1

That's what I got it for. Make sure to buy directly from Amazon and not a hosted merchant.

benji2006

The pdf states:

• Product must have been delivered and invoiced between 1st
September and 30th September 2012


If I order today, would I have a problem getting the cashback?

msmx5

ballooba wrote: »

I haven't had an opportunity to post on this, but I got confirmation on Friday that I had been approved for UK cashback. I bought off Amazon UK.

Hi balooba,

Did you use an Irish address for both Amazon Shipping and Cashback?

If the offer is extended into October I'll probably go for one.

ballooba

I used parcel motel northern Ireland for shipping. I used ROI address for invoice.

randombar

Hi Lads,

Anyone here have any issues putting xbmc on windows server 2008 on it?

Thanks
Gary

Cyclonius

The Microserver is currently back down to €280.10 on dabs, though is still €336 and €346 on hpshop.ie and elara respectively. I'm not sure if the cashback deal is still live though, as the pdf on hpshop.ie hasn't been updated for October.

EDIT: I've found a pdf for the £100 cashback in the UK here, but haven't been able to find an Irish one yet. Still, it seems to be a good sign.

Claim Form on the HP webpage:
http://h40055.www4.hp.com/docs/focus-pack/oct12/Microserver-cb-Oct12.pdf

I believe this is valid for Ireland, as the HP webpage mostly redirects to UK anyway..

I leave it to you lads to try