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

cellpack · 13 May 2011 at 08:56

these look excellent looking forward to ordering one, does about £140 after cashback seem the norm? cheers

DJMK4 · 13 May 2011 at 09:07

cellpack said:
these look excellent looking forward to ordering one, does about £140 after cashback seem the norm? cheers

I got mine from a place that was offering it for £221 (or £121 with the cashback) however this is with free delivery (IE 3-5 working days), I ended up paying £233 (or £133) with the cashback as

1) I opted for the next day delivery @ £6.99
2) I payed with a credit card (1.3% surcharge)

cellpack · 13 May 2011 at 09:13

the price i found had 4.99 delivery on top of it for 1-3 day delivery, maybe im not looking in the right place

DJMK4 · 13 May 2011 at 09:29

cellpack said:
the price i found had 4.99 delivery on top of it for 1-3 day delivery, maybe im not looking in the right place

Check your trust e-mails

cellpack · 13 May 2011 at 09:37

nothing there mate

DJMK4 · 13 May 2011 at 09:44

cellpack said:
nothing there mate

Just do a google search for it

hp proliant £221 delivered

sHo0sH · 13 May 2011 at 09:47

I'm definitely going to get one of these come pay day - regarding an OS, this is a bit of a first for me so any help would be appreciated. It's just going to be used as a NAS so would something like FREENAS be sufficient?

DJMK4 · 13 May 2011 at 09:54

Mine just arrived after I ordered it yesterday

tbz_ck · 13 May 2011 at 16:28

I've installed ESXi 4.1 on mine and stacked it with 8GB RAM. ESXi is installed to an 8GB USB Stick which runs off the internal USB port towards the front of the server motherboard.

I'm running WHS v 1 virtualised and Elastix telephone server on it at the mo and it's not even breaking a sweat.

Running WHS virtualised means I can copy the datastore containing the system partition and therefore have a backup of the WHS system I can restore from.

sweet box

beavis · 13 May 2011 at 16:33

sHo0sH said:
I'm definitely going to get one of these come pay day - regarding an OS, this is a bit of a first for me so any help would be appreciated. It's just going to be used as a NAS so would something like FREENAS be sufficient?

FreeNAS v7.x yes, but FreeNAS v8.x is not currently working with the Microserver.

FreeNAS is very easy to get up and running an there are plenty of guides around. You may also want to take a look at Unraid (3 disks is free) and OpenFiler to see if they are better suited.

cellpack · 13 May 2011 at 16:46

why is freenas 8 not working on the servers at the moment?

cheers

beavis · 13 May 2011 at 17:15

FreeNAS v8 is based on BSD v8, which doesn't currently support the AMD disk controller correctly.

cellpack · 13 May 2011 at 17:25

would this only effect the onboard raid or would it effect ZFS to?

DJMK4 · 13 May 2011 at 17:55

Al Vallario · 13 May 2011 at 18:37

cellpack said:
would this only effect the onboard raid or would it effect ZFS to?

I've got a raidz1 ZFS array on mine with FreeBSD 8.2 (previously 8.1), no problems to report.

That said, I'll probably be migrating the OS to Solaris Express for a more up-to-date ZFS implementation with iSCSI compatibility (not supported under FreeBSD at present)

cellpack · 13 May 2011 at 18:59

thanks so freenas 8.0 should be okay using raidz1 ZFS

WILD9 · 13 May 2011 at 19:48

slewis1972 said:
Anyone tried using a usb sound card say from ebay by any chance?

Yep I am running one right now, no problems at all.

DJMK4 · 13 May 2011 at 19:49

Need to know this urgently, as I forgot to bring my USB keyboard home so borrowing one to install.

Im trying to install Windows server 2003 on (yes I know I am lame, I am going to purchase WHS later). but there are no server 2003 drivers released???

mraerosmith1981 · 13 May 2011 at 21:19

ok usb sound card arrived, once I found win7 drivers for it, works great, I went for a full 7.1 card based on the c-media 106 chipset, apart from having to reverse the left and right front and sub + centre, a good card

DIABLO · 13 May 2011 at 23:28

DJMK4 said:
Need to know this urgently, as I forgot to bring my USB keyboard home so borrowing one to install.

Im trying to install Windows server 2003 on (yes I know I am lame, I am going to purchase WHS later). but there are no server 2003 drivers released???

If you are planning on installing another OS soon anyway, you can download a 3 month trial of Windows Server 2008 from microsoft and all the drivers are on the HP site fro that that OS.