HP ProLiant MicroServer

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I've used ServersPlus several times, as said above just ring them up.
They charge a 2% credit card surcharge and my last delivery cost £15.

Danger781

Also used Servers Plus and delivered direct to PM without issues.. Can't remember what billing address was used but I assume it was the same.. Why not use that?

CreepingDeath

Fyi: the hp shop (Ireland) got back to me.

They have the server for €230 Inc vat


http://www.hpshop.ie/hewlett-packard-enterprise-proliant-microserver-gen8-2-3ghz-g1610t-150w-ultra-micro-tower-819185-421-prod.html

And a €65 cashback offer https://jrit-offers.ext.hpe.com/ie/en/pdf/HPE-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8-Offer.pdf

So €165 after cash back

randombar

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Fyi: the hp shop (Ireland) got back to me.

They have the server for €230 Inc vat


http://www.hpshop.ie/hewlett-packard-enterprise-proliant-microserver-gen8-2-3ghz-g1610t-150w-ultra-micro-tower-819185-421-prod.html

And a €65 cashback offer https://jrit-offers.ext.hpe.com/ie/en/pdf/HPE-ProLiant-MicroServer-Gen8-Offer.pdf

So €165 after cash back

You should put the squeeze on, if they dropped it another 10 I'd go with them myself I'd say.

CreepingDeath

GaryCocs wrote: »

You should put the squeeze on, if they dropped it another 10 I'd go with them myself I'd say.

Yeah, I just see another €10 courier fee added to total. Or collect from Ballymount, Dublin for ~€3

randombar

Drop 20 so I guess

stimpson

If anyone is using one of the Gen 7 Microservers (N46L/N40L/N56L) I have built a new server and have the 8GB kit from my old server on adverts.

http://www.adverts.ie/other-peripherals/g-skill-8gb-ddr3-1333-cl9-0-dual-kit/11533450

iwantthat

Don't need it.
Just bought one.
Now...
What HDDs to use with it...? any recommendations...

stimpson

iwantthat wrote: »

Don't need it.
Just bought one.
Now...
What HDDs to use with it...? any recommendations...

WD Red. Cheaper than the blacks and longer warranty than the green and designed for NAS use.

Danger781

+1 for WD Red. I have four of them in my Microserver.

iwantthat

Searched around...
The cheapest i could source was from Amazon.co.uk.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008JJLXO6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

1TB for 54.32stg. Ordered two.

stimpson wrote: »

WD Red. Cheaper than the blacks and longer warranty than the green and designed for NAS use.

stimpson

3tb for £98 is much better value.

iwantthat

Would I need two drives or 1 is sufficient.

Danger781

iwantthat wrote: »

Would I need two drives or 1 is sufficient.

Depends. You could put one drive in but then you have 0 redundancy. For a server it may be best to run a RAID solution with multiple drives. Up to you at the end of the day of course.

JohnCleary

Hi all,
I want to purchase this and run RAID 1 with 2 x 1TB HDD's

Any additional hardware required? (apart from HDD's, obviously)

Many thanks.

-Edit- BTW, don't actually want to run MS Server. Can I install Win7 pro and still have RAID functionality?

JohnCleary

Guys, i'm about to send a list on to one of the lads who wants to build one of these.

Can anyone send me a link (Amazon / eBay or similar) of another compatible 4GB RAM for this? I'm not sure what is / is not compatible. (we want 8GB in total)

Thanks.

Danger781

JohnCleary wrote: »

Guys, i'm about to send a list on to one of the lads who wants to build one of these.

Can anyone send me a link (Amazon / eBay or similar) of another compatible 4GB RAM for this? I'm not sure what is / is not compatible. (we want 8GB in total)

Thanks.

As far as I'm aware any ECC RAM should work. I recall buying a budget model and it works fine.

I bought these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0064R7LH8/r

randombar

I've ordered now but does anyone know where there's a spare molex coming from the PSU? Want to power an SSD up top.

grogi

JohnCleary wrote: »

Guys, i'm about to send a list on to one of the lads who wants to build one of these.

Can anyone send me a link (Amazon / eBay or similar) of another compatible 4GB RAM for this? I'm not sure what is / is not compatible. (we want 8GB in total)

Thanks.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008EM9GVA/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

-- edit

Sorry, you're looking for 4GB. Use crucial advisor to find the correct model number. DON'T buy any memory, only one that is confirmed to work...

You can order from them directly, shipping is free.

Ste-

This may be of some use to you. scroll down the first post to see what ram works and go from there.

JohnCleary

grogi wrote: »

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008EM9GVA/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

-- edit

Sorry, you're looking for 4GB. Use crucial advisor to find the correct model number. DON'T buy any memory, only one that is confirmed to work...

You can order from them directly, shipping is free.

-Edit- Sent a link to the guy purchasing for a 4GB from Crucial direct, many thanks.

iwantthat

Will a pair of samsung 8gb 2rx4 pc3l 10600r Fit in these.

stimpson

iwantthat wrote: »

Will a pair of samsung 8gb 2rx4 pc3l 10600r Fit in these.

They have to be ecc for the newer micro server.

randombar

Can someone send me a link for nice cheap ram? Just want another 4 for now.

Wondering should I go freenas or ubuntu on this one now.

Also should I go hardware raid or software raid?

Setting up as a nas with sickrage, plex etc. etc.

grogi

GaryCocs wrote: »

Can someone send me a link for nice cheap ram? Just want another 4 for now.

Wondering should I go freenas or ubuntu on this one now.

Also should I go hardware raid or software raid?

Setting up as a nas with sickrage, plex etc. etc.

http://eu.crucial.com/eur/en/proliant-microserver-gen8/CT4487639

Ubuntu 16.04, which comes with ZFS support. Personally I've found GUI on FreeNAS very buggy.

The only thing that does not work under linux are NFSv4 ACLs - Linux kernel doesn't understand them. POSIX ACLs can be enabled (but will work only on Linux) by writing them to extended attributes.

Don't use the quasi-hardware RAID.

ED E

GaryCocs wrote: »

Can someone send me a link for nice cheap ram? Just want another 4 for now.

Wondering should I go freenas or ubuntu on this one now.

Also should I go hardware raid or software raid?

Setting up as a nas with sickrage, plex etc. etc.

If you're goin HW RAID a UPS is a must really, with software RAID you can get away with.

By the sounds of it you've not done much homework on this, it'll be worth doing your homework now so you can set it and forget it.

randombar

well I had ubuntu on an old one and I was able to configure it for what I needed.

I forgot that the raid on those machines isn't really hardware raid so I wouldn't be getting a performance boost.

From a performance perspective as well I'm wondering if Ubuntu would run better, i.e. my understanding with freenas is the files for sick rage would be stored on the raid rather than on the ssd that the os would be on, surely it would be better to run them off the ssd the os is on.

grogi

GaryCocs wrote: »

well I had ubuntu on an old one and I was able to configure it for what I needed.

I forgot that the raid on those machines isn't really hardware raid so I wouldn't be getting a performance boost.

From a performance perspective as well I'm wondering if Ubuntu would run better, i.e. my understanding with freenas is the files for sick rage would be stored on the raid rather than on the ssd that the os would be on, surely it would be better to run them off the ssd the os is on.

Performance of ZFS on Linux and ZFS on FreeBSD is comparable. You can add L2ARC and ZIL devices the same way, so there is nothing to be gained.

Another question - why would you install the OS on a SSD? With applications like that, the typical OS installation medium is the uSD card - there is even a slot on the MB.

SickBoy

ED E wrote: »

If you're goin HW RAID a UPS is a must really, with software RAID you can get away with.

Would a raid controller with BBU be sufficient?

scamalert

where do people buy these nowadays ,with the best price and cash back ?

Also looking at specs it seems really poor hp with stock celeron cpu,have couple pcs,and one has 4gb ddr3 ram plenty of sata ports not sure might be 3gb/s ones,also cpu is dual core intel 5700 3ghz 2mb cache 775 socket and 500wat psu

So question should i just get couple hdds and play with it,since looking to get into server side/nas for learning and home network-now psu is overkill on existing machine so need smth smaller in wattage,otherwise is there any other advantages that would warrant getting one,instead of using old pc that has almost better spec in general? thx