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

cheers......will have another look to see what is making the noise in mine before buying. Got 5 drives in there at the moment but it's too noisy to leave on in the room it's in. Need it close to silent.

Can the PSU fan be modded or is it sealed?
 
you can modify it. A friend took out the fan and placed on the inside blowing out. Quietens it down quite a lot. It's the psu making the noise though. The cable of the fan in the psu is long enough to place on the forward side with some double sided tape. Or you could by an atx extender cable and mount it outside somewhere and put say a 120 blowing over it. An idea might help. The best solution though is a pico.
 
Pico psu its a small device used in ITX systems normally I have one a 120w in my microserver. It runs off a of a laptop 12v brick though. Google it :). It can be bought reasonably cheap. I'm running 5 hd 1 sdd and a intel nic and adaptec 3405 ok it's quiet as well with just the inside fan producing the noise. The microserver runs at 40w loaded peaks to 70 on boot then runs at around 40w rest of time.
 
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Just did a disk throughput test both locally and copying across the network:

N40L - 8gb non-ECC RAM - Gigabit network
Running Ubuntu Server 11.10 with a Samba share setup on the single internal 250gb drive.

Writing a 10gb file locally: 119 Mb/s
Read performance across the network (drag the same 10gb file onto a Windows machine): 108 Mb/s
Write performance across the network (drag the same 10gb file back onto the share): 108 Mb/s

I'm happy with that :)
 
TheBiznes said:
Pico psu its a small device used in ITX systems normally I have one a 120w in my microserver. It runs off a of a laptop 12v brick though. Google it :). It can be bought reasonably cheap. I'm running 5 hd 1 sdd and a intel nic and adaptec 3405 ok it's quiet as well with just the inside fan producing the noise. The microserver runs at 40w loaded peaks to 70 on boot then runs at around 40w rest of time.
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Can you post some pics with this unit fitted please? :D

Just so we can see it in situ and how you have solved the "connecting to power brick problem" without wrecking case or warranty :D

EDIT

which power brick you using ? 60/75/84/150W ?
 
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Just bought a N40L, I'll be back to this thread when it arrives :)

Can you email you claim via email , or just send it to via snail mail to:-

HP Claims Dept
PO Box 7393
etc.

HEADRAT
 
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