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

Freakbro · 30 Jul 2011 at 07:23

I'm guessing this RAM will be ok for a good cheap upgrade?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1516

adamau5 · 30 Jul 2011 at 09:07

elnino90 said:
hi. just wanted some help regarding the cashback. i was wondering when it says proof of purchase, what has everyone sent? i received a delivery note which had the code, brand and description on it. would this be enough or am i looking for something else?

I sent that and a copy of the email receipt. They responded within two days and said cashback on its way.

Digital · 30 Jul 2011 at 09:40

elnino90 said:
hi. just wanted some help regarding the cashback. i was wondering when it says proof of purchase, what has everyone sent? i received a delivery note which had the code, brand and description on it. would this be enough or am i looking for something else?

Printed a copy of the Invoice off the website.

akashi · 31 Jul 2011 at 17:04

Freakbro said:
I'm guessing this RAM will be ok for a good cheap upgrade?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1516

I brought the same RAM for my Microsever and Windows 2008 R2 did not boot. BSOD came up with "BIOS is not fully ACPI compliant"

After researching many forums I have found 2 other users had the same problem http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=18429658&postcount=745

I purchased the Kingston 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Non-ECC today for £17.64 (KVR1333D3N9/4G) Still waiting for it to arrive and hopefully will work as confirmed by others here.

TurGe · 31 Jul 2011 at 17:56

Yup can confirm the above as I am having the same issue with that OCZ Ram, only 1 stick will work either on its own or with the 1 gig that comes with the server but its very unstable and bluescreens randomly.
I am just checking if its is the ram at the moment by taking out the OCZ and just using the 1 gig that came with the server.
Let me know how you get on with that 4gig stick as I will buy one of them if its is working fine.

DiCe! · 31 Jul 2011 at 22:07

Is this thing still on offer?

Freakbro · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:44

DiCe! said:
Is this thing still on offer?

Nope, and since I only came across this thread Sat morning, I was unable to get one in time (rang some places they said Inv would be dated monday)

DiCe! · 1 Aug 2011 at 10:11

Have to wait till next time grrrrrr

Im in dire need of a 4 bay cheap nas...but its impossible

TheBiznes · 1 Aug 2011 at 10:40

There are still some on the bay not all that cheap but cheaper.

joey1211 · 1 Aug 2011 at 11:00

It is still available. :confused:

DJMK4 · 1 Aug 2011 at 12:08

Damn I should have purchased another one of these on CCard, seems that the price has gone up on the bay, could have made the £100 cashback and a bit of profit.

TigerUK · 1 Aug 2011 at 15:15

damn

i got a plugin power monitor to check how much power is being used by the hp microserver.

20 wats on idle.. that's with apache fan, passive PSU and WD green drives 1x500GB 2X2TB

with a 5450 graphics card the idle went up by 5-7 watts. but the 5450 hasn't given me the performance boos I wanted, the video stream sucks

I can't get the hd5450 to play videos properly using xbmc, I've got whs2011 running, installed win6 64bit drivers, video plays fine outside on a normal player, but running videos in xbmc seems to be too much for it to handle

Mikoyan · 1 Aug 2011 at 16:11

Can someone confirm which non ecc ram you recommend (and works)

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Digital · 1 Aug 2011 at 16:54

THE OFFER IS STILL OPEN!

Extended until 31st August.

Linky

TurGe · 1 Aug 2011 at 17:39

Digital said:
THE OFFER IS STILL OPEN!

Extended until 31st August.

Linky

What a surprise ;-)

IAmATeaf · 1 Aug 2011 at 22:02

Mikoyan said:
Can someone confirm which non ecc ram you recommend (and works) ?

I'm using 2 x 2gb of Corsair 10600 DDR3 XMS3 RAM

steinooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 22:30

TigerUK said:
damn

i got a plugin power monitor to check how much power is being used by the hp microserver.

20 wats on idle.. that's with apache fan, passive PSU and WD green drives 1x500GB 2X2TB

with a 5450 graphics card the idle went up by 5-7 watts. but the 5450 hasn't given me the performance boos I wanted, the video stream sucks

I can't get the hd5450 to play videos properly using xbmc, I've got whs2011 running, installed win6 64bit drivers, video plays fine outside on a normal player, but running videos in xbmc seems to be too much for it to handle

really interested in how you will get on, as I'm tempted to use this as my main XBMC rig as opposed to my Revo currently there, then move the Revo to the bedroom. Have you read this?

TigerUK · 2 Aug 2011 at 00:30

yeah mate, i think xmbx in whs2011 is overkill the cpu can't deal with it. Plus the 5450 gets quite hot it will increase the temps a lot.

xmbc on a very lite OS should work fine though, but I need WHS2011 for many reasons

I think the best solution for me is to use a video streamer like WDTV, sure I won't be able to get full features that XMBC has, but I'm cool with just being able to stream videos.

I'm returning the HD5450

agent_paul · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:01

TigerUK said:
yeah mate, i think xmbx in whs2011 is overkill the cpu can't deal with it. Plus the 5450 gets quite hot it will increase the temps a lot.

xmbc on a very lite OS should work fine though, but I need WHS2011 for many reasons

I think the best solution for me is to use a video streamer like WDTV, sure I won't be able to get full features that XMBC has, but I'm cool with just being able to stream videos.

I'm returning the HD5450

I've got a passive 5450 in mine and it seems to play 720 video fine. Im running on ubuntu 11.04 with 5Gb of ram with XBMC. If you want ill look for 1080 video to test against.

DiCe! · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:33

This is SO tempting. its scary.

There is no way im going to find a 4 bay NAS anywhere...but ive never set up a server before, i would be much more comfortable with a nice plug and play.....

WHAT TO DO!