Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

Dandle · 9 Mar 2014 at 21:20

I bought a Pico psu for mine and power it with a Dell 19v 120w power brick I already had.

b0rn2sk8 · 9 Mar 2014 at 21:47

Attu90 said:
Either a pico psu or a 1u psu google FSP "150W 1U Compact Power Supply - FSP150-50GUB" for the latter, about £30.

This may help http://chrisstark.co/2013/08/hp-microserver-n36-replacement-power-supply-psu/

That looks like it will do the trick, thankyou, I already have plenty of splitters etc.

Mines been running 24/7 with 5HDD and an optical drive and a PCI-E graphics card since day one, so not bad I suppose.

cottoneye · 11 Mar 2014 at 09:56

Anyone have their microserver tucked away in a cupboard, just checked speedfan and its reporting a core temp of 51C and hard drives at ~32

Is that going to be an issue?

Thanks,

pepp77 · 11 Mar 2014 at 10:50

cottoneye said:
Anyone have their microserver tucked away in a cupboard, just checked speedfan and its reporting a core temp of 51C and hard drives at ~32

Is that going to be an issue?

Thanks,

Mine is in my old airing cupboard, I normally leave the door ajar by about an inch.

Here are the temps over the past two weeks or so.

DIABLO · 11 Mar 2014 at 12:38

cottoneye said:
Anyone have their microserver tucked away in a cupboard, just checked speedfan and its reporting a core temp of 51C and hard drives at ~32

Is that going to be an issue?

Thanks,

If that's the idle temps of the hard drives them that is higher then I would be comfortable with.

bremen1874 · 11 Mar 2014 at 12:46

The rated operating temperature for a HDD is going to be 60+ degrees.

Find the manufacture's specifications and see what your drives are rated at. I pretty sure you'll have plenty of headroom to play with.

The maximum operating temperature for the CPU will be much higher.

Trig · 11 Mar 2014 at 20:18

Whats the going rate for an N40L, 4gb ram and about 1.5tb of disk space?
Picked up my Gen8 today and one of the guys at work wants the old Gen7 unit....

MagicBoy · 11 Mar 2014 at 20:29

Price Check forum.

Trig · 11 Mar 2014 at 21:32

That part of the MM?
Dont have access to that...

MagicBoy · 11 Mar 2014 at 21:33

Yeah. 500 posts used to get you access. Maybe it changed?

Anyway, price checks are banned outside of the MM. Try checking eBay?

marcus2704 · 12 Mar 2014 at 11:50

I have two Microservers (N36) and am considering using one of them as a HTPC, are they capable units for 1080P playback via XBMC (OpenElec)?

I would be purchasing a Radeon HD 6450 low profile card.

Trig · 12 Mar 2014 at 12:48

If XBMC will transcode on the 6450 then you should be fine, I can just about about get way with a 720 on the CPU on the N40L but I am using Plex...

MagicBoy · 12 Mar 2014 at 13:04

Trig said:
If XBMC will transcode on the 6450 then you should be fine, I can just about about get way with a 720 on the CPU on the N40L but I am using Plex...

I think you mean decode?

Works fine with that hardware on Windows on an N40L. No idea about OpenElec support.

kek · 13 Mar 2014 at 13:39

Is this memory compatile with the N40L ?

HP 8GB (1x8GB) Dual Rank x4 PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333) Registered CAS-9 Memory Kit/S-Buy
http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product.aspx?sku=10248945&pagemode=ca

Longbow · 13 Mar 2014 at 15:03

For those that have replaced the 120mm fan, what fan did you use?

I was looking at these 2 40/120mm fans:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-018-NB&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=818
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-022-EN&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=4

uncle_rufus · 13 Mar 2014 at 16:09

Longbow said:
I was looking at these 2 40/120mm fans:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-018-NB&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=818
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-022-EN&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=4

I used the 40mm noiseblocker you linked to, but I used a 120mm noiseblocker as well I think, not sure of the exact one

Longbow · 13 Mar 2014 at 16:45

uncle_rufus said:
I used the 40mm noiseblocker you linked to, but I used a 120mm noiseblocker as well I think, not sure of the exact one

Well I did look at this one: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-021-NB&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=4

However, I found the specs for it which said it has a 3-pin connector.

Attu90 · 13 Mar 2014 at 16:58

You want a 3 pin fan and just cut one of the lugs off to make it fit, some one will tell you which one to cut off, the 4 pin header on the HP motherboard isn't a standard pwm so you have to also modify a 4 pin if you use one of those.

Attu90 · 13 Mar 2014 at 17:06

Have a look at this post by maddness http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=24671250&postcount=6457

Trig · 13 Mar 2014 at 18:06

Got my gen8, liked the gen7 but this is something else...