HP ProLiant MicroServer

zuroph · 08-09-2012 03:01PM

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 · 08-09-2012 05:21PM

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 · 08-09-2012 08:21PM

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 · 09-09-2012 09:55AM

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

mcgovern · 09-09-2012 11:48AM

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 · 13-09-2012 06:34PM

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 · 13-09-2012 06:47PM

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 · 13-09-2012 06:51PM

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

PCDub · 13-09-2012 08:53PM

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 · 13-09-2012 11:03PM

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 · 13-09-2012 11:15PM

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 · 14-09-2012 08:55AM

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 · 14-09-2012 06:48PM

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 · 15-09-2012 04:29PM

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 · 17-09-2012 10:25PM

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 · 18-09-2012 11:55AM

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 · 19-09-2012 10:18AM

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 · 19-09-2012 11:03AM

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 · 19-09-2012 11:47AM

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 · 19-09-2012 12:01PM

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

vibe666 · 19-09-2012 03:10PM

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 · 24-09-2012 08:23PM

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 · 24-09-2012 11:04PM

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 · 26-09-2012 02:20PM

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 · 27-09-2012 11:24AM

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 · 28-09-2012 06:39PM

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 · 28-09-2012 06:56PM

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

randombar · 12-10-2012 04:34PM

Hi Lads,

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

Thanks
Gary

Cyclonius · 19-10-2012 08:56PM

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.

20-10-2012 11:18AM

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

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