hp proliant microserver gen8 - xeon e3 1265l v2
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Very interesting NAS for those wanting to move away from Synology, QNAP and other closed source in models to something which will run TrueNAS, Unraid etc. It's also an alternate to the Minisforum N5 if that NAS doesn't float your boat. Personally, I've been wanting to upgrade my Synology...
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(Mods feel free to delete this if not permitted) Hey all, So I know the Dell T20 and Microservers get a lot of love in the forums for being good starter servers etc however with the release of the MS-01 earlier in the year and the fact that these are starting to reach people I thought it might...
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If it were my money right now I'd be going Aoostar as some of the Minisforum guys are having some issues with returns.
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*** The Official Aoostar WTR Max NAS thread ***
Very interesting NAS for those wanting to move away from Synology, QNAP and other closed source in models to something which will run TrueNAS, Unraid etc. It's also an alternate to the Minisforum N5 if that NAS doesn't float your boat. Personally, I've been wanting to upgrade my Synology...MinisForum MS-01 - Owners Thread
(Mods feel free to delete this if not permitted) Hey all, So I know the Dell T20 and Microservers get a lot of love in the forums for being good starter servers etc however with the release of the MS-01 earlier in the year and the fact that these are starting to reach people I thought it might...
If it were my money right now I'd be going Aoostar as some of the Minisforum guys are having some issues with returns.
Would you not recommend the HP?
Gen8 is as old as the hills now and the Xeons don’t have hardware encoding so you can’t do fun stuff with media serving. You’d require a low profile graphics card, they’re limited to just 2 SATA3 ports, the other 2 bays are SATA2.
I have 2 - they’ve been great but I wouldn’t be spending anything over £100 for one and even then, it’s a stop gap.
Okay what about the HP ProLiant MicroServer i5-3470T CPU Server. Or possibly something by Synology or UGREEN?
Again, Ivybridge was released in 2012. Even a modern little N100 would wipe it for what you will use most likely.
Ugreen are a good shout, they have some very good NAS units that you can install your own OS on and Synology... expensive but a turnkey solution. Have a look at NASCompares youtubre channel, does some very good videos and has a finger on the pulse.
Ubiquiti UniFi have released a couple NAS's recently if you want turn key as well, may be worth a look if you're that way inclined.
If you are hellbent on a Gen8 with 1265 CPU though... I'll happily deliver you mine for £600
I’ll have a look at the other options. £600 isn’t a lot but it’s all I’ve got.
If you are hellbent on a Gen8 with 1265 CPU though... I'll happily deliver you mine for £600
What about: https://ebay.us/m/bOQ7Zr
You aren't listening. Hp microservers are old and slow nowadays.
Sone options have been suggested already
I’ve looked at them. They are out of budget.
There are Chinese n100 mini pcs in budget, or £600 will build a decent desktop pc with unraid
The Mini PCs are well awful. Desktop PC. Very power hungry. I’ve built gaming PCs and I don’t want something that big.
You can easily build a small and quiet pc that consumes less power than an old ivy bridge microserver.
The "awful" mini pcs are also leagues more powerful than a microserver.
Put some ideas of what I could buy for £600 all in. With a PC.
The HP Microservers in my opinion peaked at Gen8. Gen9 went back to fixed components and Gen10 just isn't in competitive in todays market.
You shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the mini PC's though. Something like the linked below would be a quarter of the power draw and I've linked you a CPU comparison, a higher model like an N305 is about a 200% increase on the Ivybridge CPU you mentioned as well as having good HW offload capability if you choose media serving.
CPU comparison
Even the N100 which is last generation now (superseded by the N150) beats the 3470T if that helps show where your expectations are compared to what's available.
A basic ugreen DXP2800 comes with an N100 and is ready to go although I personally wouldn't go head first into the ugreen os. The 4800 adds more disks and more performance to that mix.
You've mentioned you want to run on it, one of the small form units is perfect for your use case, my previous reccomendation of a £400+ unit didn't acknowledge your usage and I assumed you'd be running multiple dockers and maybe a VM and so on. Music store and serve, cheeky video serve maybe? N100/N150 or machine of that ilk is going to be everything you could ask for and it'll do it quieter, faster and cheaper than building on ancient hardwre.
Your budget is really good for what you want, you could happily pick up a unit and a 4TB NVME to go inside and have some change leftover.
Finally... As I'm starting to go on. Don't be scared to build or use a desktop PC. You may have built gaming PC's but that's not what you are trying to build here. A preloved HP Prodesk with an 8th Gen i5 would be the entry point, can be picked up for <£200 and give you easily double the performance of a Microserver, enough storage configuration and you mentioned power draw, they sit at about 30w idle (similar or less than a microserver). Gaming PC's are power hungry because they always want mooooaaaarrrr FPSz, a quiet little box in the corner serving content does not need to do this.
My main home server (hogwarts - don't ask) is an elitedesk 800 g4 which does all of the everythings for me, try as I might to justify replacing I can't.
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Your budget is plenty big enough for what you want.
Yep something like that would be a huge overspec for what you've said you want to do as well so lots of long term potential. That price includes 1TB of storage as well which I'd probably advise to use as your "OS" drive, please do factor in another 1 or 2TB NVME drive as your storage medium, the only place these little units cheap out are th eincluded storage drives, fine for an OS, I'd personally want anything remotely important data wise on a branded and known drive. Speed isn't going to be an issue for you so you can grab a Samsung or similar branded 2TB for less than £100 bringing you up to budget.
If it's super mega important data, don't forget a backup. I have a HP microserver sitting purely as my backup box that my main server rsyncs my data to. If I hadn't already invested money into the hardware I'd be looking at something like a hetzner backup box which are about £5 a month.
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