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

I just had a live chat with a retailer that has them in stock for £239.96. They said ordering tomorrow (morning, at least) would be fine, as long as you pay for next day delivery (so the invoice says November) (~£15, though!).
 
MikeHiow said:
That all looks fine.

Have you tried setting up the drive as GPT natively somewhere first?
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Think I've proved it doesn't work as conclusively as I can now.

Did a fresh install of Windows 7 natively on the microserver, formatted the 3TB disk to GPT and it was all fine.

If I then boot back to ESXi and go through to same steps to make it a RDM, it does exactly the same as before. Drive under 3TB are still fine.
 
Bought two N40L servers last week. Running 5x 1.5TB Samsung F2s plus a 160GB 2.5" drive in each. Used the modded BIOS for AHCI, have to say these things are sweet. Using FlexRAID in snapshot RAID mode.

Serves up my movies and TV series to four AppleTVs around the house on one and the other has my DVD and Bluray collection.

With the £100 per server rebate these things are sweet at £140 each. They sip power even with six drives!!
 
Paul11 said:
just ordered a N40L... but not sure it will come with a november invoice :(
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Where did you order from? Oh, I guess you can't say. But I checked "directly" with one retailer of servers, and they said I'd get a November invoice, as long as I paid for next-day delivery.
 
with whs2011 drive extender is no longer included
i never knew what it was so wasnt too bothered

now reading up after installing i cannot mirror folders onto other drives in the microserver as backup? or am i missing somthing?

i presume thats what drive extender did?
 
WHS v1 PP3 all setup:-

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Didn't expect my 3TB drive to be recognised so happy about that!

Running under AHCI mode now :)

HEADRAT
 
challengedavid said:
now reading up after installing i cannot mirror folders onto other drives in the microserver as backup? or am i missing somthing?
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The MicroServer support RAID 1, so you could do your mirroring that way. (The two drives will appear as a single drive to Windows.) I haven't done this myself, but I assume it should be straightforward enough.

If you want the mirrored copy to appear in Windows Explorer, etc., you'll have to use something like SyncToy (my favourite) to do the duplication.
 
Well, almost finished the base 'Linux From Scratch' install on my N40L now. I had a quick play with a minimal Debian running Sabnzbd+, get_iplayer, apache and a few other bits and it worked a treat.

Using rsync to mirror two of the drives to the other two on an hourly basis, which means no worries about having to reinstall RAID or LVM should anything go wrong.

Very simple, but then I'm not after an enterprise solution here. I plan to knock up a couple of simple web apps as well for admin purposes.

The only 'wish' now is to reduce the fan noise a bit. It's very quiet, but noticeable in a silent house.
 
When you say Linux From Scratch, have you actually gone for an LFS approach, or is this how you're describing the base Debian install?
 
_SBradley_ said:
The MicroServer support RAID 1, so you could do your mirroring that way. (The two drives will appear as a single drive to Windows.) I haven't done this myself, but I assume it should be straightforward enough.

If you want the mirrored copy to appear in Windows Explorer, etc., you'll have to use something like SyncToy (my favourite) to do the duplication.
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Or you can set duplication up on the folders.
 
MikeHiow said:
When you say Linux From Scratch, have you actually gone for an LFS approach, or is this how you're describing the base Debian install?
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I'm actually doing LFS 7 :D

Not the quickest approach, I'll grant you, but it'll give me a really nice light system and I'll know where everything is (and why).
 
drizzy said:
Wish I'd seen this a couple of days ago. Will miss the cashback thing I think so no server for me!
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I ordered today from the server retailer with a mathematical symbol in their name, and they assured me that the invoice would be dated today (using default next-day shipping @ £6.95, I think), and that the order would be eligible for cashback.

Do it now, to get in before the next-day cutoff (~5pm). :) True, there's a good possibility of the cashback being extended, but I figured, if it isn't, I'm going to be annoyed. :)
 
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