HP ProLiant MicroServer

CyCaboose · 07-02-2014 09:57AM

witnessmenow wrote: »

Yeah, use the Irish form

http://h40055.www4.hp.com/docs/focus-pack/jan14/PA0060_HP_Microserver_%E2%82%AC120_Cashback_Feb_2014_v1_0.pdf

I claimed Irish cashback from HP after getting something delivered to PM

EXCELLENT! thank you!

witnessmenow · 07-02-2014 09:58AM

Where did you buy it from though? Everywhere seems to have gotten pretty expensive

truedoom · 07-02-2014 10:02AM

Saadyst wrote: »

Ebuyer don't deliver to Ireland anymore

parcelmotel?

Elessar · 07-02-2014 10:04AM

Pardon the stupid question but....why would someone want one of these? What can you do with it?

stimpson · 07-02-2014 10:15AM

You'll be grand as long as it's from an authorised HP reseller. You can get a euro claim form from the email address on the form.

CyCaboose · 07-02-2014 10:40AM

witnessmenow wrote: »

Where did you buy it from though? Everywhere seems to have gotten pretty expensive

I got it from here: http://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/hp_tower_servers/704941-421

its the one without the 3 year warranty, as the one with the 3 year warranty went up in price. So this is £97.94 after the £100 rebate.

Was free UK delivery to parcel motel too (with their free delivery code), and it fit in the large locker in parcel motel

looks like its out of stock now tho

nitros7 · 07-02-2014 11:13AM

From HUKD thread
More stock due into UK resellers from Monday 10/02/14

Not sure what the prices are going to be like though

CyCaboose · 07-02-2014 11:27AM

does anyone know if you can just email in the rebate form with a copy of the invoice, or do you have to post it?

and for the cheque they post to you, do you need to be at home to sign for the delivery of it if its registered mail?

stimpson · 07-02-2014 11:36AM

CyCaboose wrote: »

does anyone know if you can just email in the rebate form with a copy of the invoice, or do you have to post it?

and for the cheque they post to you, do you need to be at home to sign for the delivery of it if its registered mail?

Yes you can email it. No you don't need to be at home.

theShire · 08-02-2014 07:52AM

Latest on hukd http://m.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-n54l-microserver-186-down-86-after-100-cashback-serversdirect-1820070

witnessmenow · 08-02-2014 11:44AM

For people who have it running linux and in a hard to access place, you get the serial number from the command line using the following:

sudo dmidecode -t system

Gipo3 · 08-02-2014 06:09PM

stimpson wrote: »

Yes you can email it. No you don't need to be at home.

What is the email address to send the form.

rovoagho · 08-02-2014 06:18PM

If it's not on the form, you'll find it by searching this thread.

ShayC · 08-02-2014 07:05PM

Does anyone have a spare 2gb Ram they'd like to sell me?

ED E · 08-02-2014 08:44PM

So, FreeNas on these? Anyone done it?

Alun · 09-02-2014 09:05PM

ED E wrote: »

So, FreeNas on these? Anyone done it?

Yes, then tore my hair out trying to get anything other than just network file services running reliably, and gave up and bought a Synology NAS instead

Want to buy one?

positron · 10-02-2014 11:43AM

I put UnRaid - it was reasonably easy.

Alun · 10-02-2014 11:45AM

The filesharing stuff in FreeNAS wasn't really the problem, apart from me struggling with Samba permissions which are still a mystery to me. It was the crappy, bug-ridden plugins that decided it for me.

stimpson · 10-02-2014 01:03PM

unraid ftw.

mcgovern · 10-02-2014 01:55PM

I have FreeNas running on mine, with CouchPotato, SickBeard , Transmission, miniDLNA and Firefly. It was finicky to get running and every few months it will crash for no reason, but the majority of the time it is pretty stable.

twigsirl · 10-02-2014 03:07PM

Don't know if ye've seen this but HP are gonna start charging for firmware updates etc if you don't have a valid warranty or care pack. This will apply to all of our Microservers as well.

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Technical-Support-Services-Blog/Customers-for-life/ba-p/154423#.UvY2yV2PIuU

vectra · 10-02-2014 03:12PM

twigsirl wrote: »

Don't know if ye've seen this but HP are gonna start charging for firmware updates etc if you don't have a valid warranty or care pack. This will apply to all of our Microservers as well.

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Technical-Support-Services-Blog/Customers-for-life/ba-p/154423#.UvY2yV2PIuU

So the way that will work is someone with warranty/support pack can get the update file and put it somewhere for others to get it?

stimpson · 10-02-2014 03:20PM

twigsirl wrote: »

Don't know if ye've seen this but HP are gonna start charging for firmware updates etc if you don't have a valid warranty or care pack. This will apply to all of our Microservers as well.

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Technical-Support-Services-Blog/Customers-for-life/ba-p/154423#.UvY2yV2PIuU

Many of us are running custom firmware for Port Multiplier and full SATA 2 support anyway!

positron · 10-02-2014 03:33PM

mcgovern wrote: »

..with CouchPotato, SickBeard..

I have been trying to get my heard around these things for a while, but just wondering if these (and the process of getting content to your media folder) any good / worth the cost and effort (compared to standard torrent sites and manually downloading what you want to see)?

witnessmenow · 10-02-2014 03:46PM

We have to be careful what we say here and not venture into any strange territory!

I use an rss feed from showrss.info for TV shows, plugged into Qbittorrent which is just set to grab everything from the RSS feed as it comes, I then have sickbear monitoring the completed folder, so it will automatically move and rename the file into the proper position on my media folder. I think it works great. It works better for me than using sickbeard with sab did

ED E · 10-02-2014 04:07PM

Alun wrote: »

The filesharing stuff in FreeNAS wasn't really the problem, apart from me struggling with Samba permissions which are still a mystery to me. It was the crappy, bug-ridden plugins that decided it for me.

Maybe, how much you asking? (PM me maybe not to derail the thread)

mcgovern wrote: »

I have FreeNas running on mine, with CouchPotato, SickBeard , Transmission, miniDLNA and Firefly. It was finicky to get running and every few months it will crash for no reason, but the majority of the time it is pretty stable.

How much ram is in it and are you running ZFS? The main reason I'd run FN is for ZFS but its a ram whore.

mcgovern · 10-02-2014 05:42PM

positron wrote: »

I have been trying to get my heard around these things for a while, but just wondering if these (and the process of getting content to your media folder) any good / worth the cost and effort (compared to standard torrent sites and manually downloading what you want to see)?

I find sickbeard very handy, it gets the shows I like and then moves them to the right folder. Couchpotato is less useful, as there are more fakes etc, so I mainly use it as reminder list of films I would like and when they are available.

ED E wrote: »

How much ram is in it and are you running ZFS? The main reason I'd run FN is for ZFS but its a ram whore.

Its got 4 GB RAM, I've the older N36. I do have all the drives formatted to ZFS, but I'm probably not doing it right.

ED E · 11-02-2014 09:58AM

mcgovern wrote: »

Its got 4 GB RAM, I've the older N36. I do have all the drives formatted to ZFS, but I'm probably not doing it right.

Its probably just ram starved if you have more than a couple TB in there. AFAIK if it runs out of memory it'll crash out. Thats the one big con with freenas.

Trojan00 · 11-02-2014 01:12PM

I just bought one from Servers Plus

I had to call them to order as there was a problem doing it online. The guy said that 500 just came in to stock. The price was €245 and I should get €120 cashback. I decided not to get the 3 year warranty as I am not sure if it can be used when ordering from the UK. Anyway, it should be delivered via Parcel Motel in the next couple of days.

mcgovern · 11-02-2014 01:37PM

ED E wrote: »

Its probably just ram starved if you have more than a couple TB in there. AFAIK if it runs out of memory it'll crash out. Thats the one big con with freenas.

It doesn't have much free but is usually fine, I think there is 3.5tb in it, but was hoping to add more, so I'll have to take that into consideration, thanks.

HP ProLiant MicroServer

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