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

Nikumba · 6 Jan 2011 at 22:39

AtomicBanana said:
The data to rebuild the array is on the drives themselves. For example, I wiped my usb stick a few times trying slightly different versions of the method I used in the end, and each time I could get my array back with:

Code:

sudo mdadm --assemble --scan

This is the advantage of using linux software raid, it's not dependant on specific controllers/hardware.

thanks for that, looks like I will be going the Ubuntu route then, also looks like SABnzb works under linux as well, just have to wait for everything to arrive now.

jung · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:57

Been playing with all kinds of settings on the box to see if I could bring up the samba speed, it just occurred to me my laptop doesn't have gigabit lan.

doh!

SuBo · 7 Jan 2011 at 05:52

RJC said:
Mine turned up to day along with a sky HD box, busy weekend!!

Can you confirm when you submitted your claim ? They seem to send you an email to confirm they received the form ?

k3v · 7 Jan 2011 at 09:16

I posted my claims form the week before christmas, i hadnt had a confirmation email, so i emailed them yesterday to check they had received them, they replied that they had received them and had just processed my claim and that they would email me shortly with confirmation, its yet to arrive! I think they must just be busy.

Zarf · 7 Jan 2011 at 10:02

k3v said:
I posted my claims form the week before christmas, i hadnt had a confirmation email, so i emailed them yesterday to check they had received them, they replied that they had received them and had just processed my claim and that they would email me shortly with confirmation, its yet to arrive! I think they must just be busy.

It'll come, I was in the same situation. Got confirmation that my claim was accepted a couple of days after they emailed me back to say they were processing it.

Nikumba · 7 Jan 2011 at 10:21

Just ordered mine, should be here middle of next week

MasterPlan1 · 7 Jan 2011 at 11:14

k3v said:
Thanks for clearing that up, i wasnt sure if you had moved the supplied hard drive to the optical bay or not.
Im currently using unraid as a trial, but i dont think im gonna stick with it, ideally i want something that will give me remote access to download files on my hard drive on a remote computer with no additional software on it i.e. internet explorer. Can ubuntu desktop allow me to do this? One last noob question, why didnt you use the server version of ubuntu?

Easy way to do this would be to set up apache with the document root as your storage drive. Failing that, you can set up a FTP within Linux easily enough, and FTP is accessible through most machines anywhere.

Al Vallario · 7 Jan 2011 at 11:25

k3v said:
I posted my claims form the week before christmas, i hadnt had a confirmation email, so i emailed them yesterday to check they had received them, they replied that they had received them and had just processed my claim and that they would email me shortly with confirmation, its yet to arrive! I think they must just be busy.

E-mailed my claim in on the 1st January, got a response on the 4th saying the office had been closed over the holidays and that they were processing the claim, and got confirmation that my claim was valid yesterday.

For anyone about to process claims, there's no need to post it off, just send a scanned copy of the claim form along with your invoice to [email protected]

AtomicBanana · 7 Jan 2011 at 11:57

MasterPlan1 said:
Easy way to do this would be to set up apache with the document root as your storage drive. Failing that, you can set up a FTP within Linux easily enough, and FTP is accessible through most machines anywhere.

There's always sftp as well, though this need you to run (a small) program from the machine you're on.

CraigN · 7 Jan 2011 at 12:13

Nikumba said:
Why what is wrong with RAID5? Why would you pick 10 over 5?

If I use 4 x 2Tb disks in R5 I will get ~6TB of space, opposed to ~4Tb with raid 10.

Kimbie

Raid 5 is slow especially if your doing lots of writes. Raid 10 has far superior performance.

Its a golden rule you never install an OS onto a Raid 5.

k3v · 7 Jan 2011 at 12:59

MasterPlan1 said:
Easy way to do this would be to set up apache with the document root as your storage drive. Failing that, you can set up a FTP within Linux easily enough, and FTP is accessible through most machines anywhere.

Thanks, ill take a look at this

AtomicBanana said:
There's always sftp as well, though this need you to run (a small) program from the machine you're on.

And indeed this too

cheers guys

ought · 7 Jan 2011 at 16:16

I have been following this thread with interest.

But good grief, these are now £250ish! £40 more than the beginning of the week, and not many places have them in stock.

Any ideas? Thanks.

kae2 · 7 Jan 2011 at 16:23

ought said:
I have been following this thread with interest.

But good grief, these are now £250ish! £40 more than the beginning of the week, and not many places have them in stock.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Ouch, the place I ordered mine has gone up almost £50! :eek:

That's the cost of another H/D...

Glad I ordered last month!

Just e-mailed the promotions peeps as I haven't heard back yet, so will see what they say.

SuBo · 7 Jan 2011 at 17:06

Place i got mine from is still £199.99 +vat and delivery. If you look for my original post, i left clues as to the website, as apparently linking to other websites will get me killed.

Infact, with VAT that puts it up to £240 + del

pumpman · 8 Jan 2011 at 00:06

ive installed whs v1 on mine but im struggling to install a driver for the smbus even pointing to it fails, for those that have installed whs v1 do you have the driver for this ?
thanks

nikzGfx · 8 Jan 2011 at 10:53

pumpman said:
ive installed whs v1 on mine but im struggling to install a driver for the smbus even pointing to it fails, for those that have installed whs v1 do you have the driver for this ?
thanks

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/embedded/Pages/embedded_windows_all.aspx

Guru · 8 Jan 2011 at 11:04

Anyone got WD caviar greens in theirs and finding it slow?

I read somewhere about a WD Align program that is supposed to speed things up but it was just for XP. Is there anything for 2008?

Cheers,

G

Nikumba · 8 Jan 2011 at 11:10

What 2Tb drives are people using?

Kimbie

nikzGfx · 8 Jan 2011 at 11:39

Can anyone recommend me a bay that will fit the 160gb perfectly in the ODD bay? Got some cheap metal brackets and they are rubbish! Don't fit at all. Thanks.

jung · 8 Jan 2011 at 11:49

Nikumba said:
What 2Tb drives are people using?

Kimbie

Samsung Eco drives here, read nasty things about WD and raid being disabled.