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

K@rl said:
just ordered mine with 4GB Kingston ram as suggested in this thread and a ATI 6450 low profile card.

Will be installing Home Server 2011 and a 2TB drive I have ready and waiting. Will be using it as a NAS / XBMC and VM server for my 2003 server.

Will post pics / details if people are interested?
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You shouldn't really be using a WHS machine as a PC.
 
Why not? It's more than capable of running xbmc and some other bits and bobs at the same time. There are quite a few others on the net doing the same thing.
 
I've seen the same thing mentioned a few times - it's a SERVER, you can't actually do anything useful with it.

THe reality is, that's a load of codswallop, probably stemming from the idea that production servers should be kept as servers because they are supposed to be high availability and the risk of doing other stuff on it just isn't worth it.
 
Has anybody managed to get S2008R2 onto one of these without using an optical drive? Copying setup to a local disk and via PXE both fail for me with missing drivers just after clicking the 'install now' button. Even giving it the driver on USB doesn't work as it's apparently not compatible.
 
PieMaster said:
Has anybody managed to get S2008R2 onto one of these without using an optical drive? Copying setup to a local disk and via PXE both fail for me with missing drivers just after clicking the 'install now' button. Even giving it the driver on USB doesn't work as it's apparently not compatible.
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I just used the 2K8 R2 iso file and the Windows 7 ISO USB tool
Code: 
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
and 2K8 R2 installed fine for me
 
Can anyone report what kind of sustained write speeds they are getting across internal disk transfers? If you could specify what disk you are running that would help also :)
 
Splint said:
Can anyone report what kind of sustained write speeds they are getting across internal disk transfers? If you could specify what disk you are running that would help also :)
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I get the following speeds:

119 mbps writing locally on the machine.
108 mbps both reading and writing to the machine across the network to a samba share

This is to the standard Hitachi 250gb drive that the machine comes with. I am running Ubuntu Server with 8gb RAM using Samba to share files to Windows. The drive is formatted with the EXT4 filesystem. The test file was 10gb in size across a gigabit wired network.
 
Thanks for the info, getting about 100-105 MB/sec in WHS 2011, seems fine for a Samsung F4 eco drive. Was interested as I have only got the standard AHCI controller installed as I am not raiding. Haven't had a chance to test the network however as I have spent the day trying to recover 800gb of data which turns out didn't need recovering :|

Turned on my pc, went to make a tea came back to see chkdsk had started and my screen was filled with lines starting with the word deleted..so I panicked and turned the machine off, rebooted skipped the check and the largest data folder on the drive was unreadable..after much faffing with photoRec and other software I thought to show protected OS files and sure enough inside a protected folder named found.000 are all my files! Ironically the reason I had booted up in the first place was to create a backup of this particular drive!
 
K@rl said:
Why not? It's more than capable of running xbmc and some other bits and bobs at the same time. There are quite a few others on the net doing the same thing.
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Ignore the fool.

I have mine running XBMC, Sickbeard, SABnzbd+, file storage and burning my errr xbox 360 stuff.

Works perfectly, 4GB and a cheap passive ATI card.
 
... this should be interesting.

Anyway... even though I have been advised not too.

I have popped the 6450LP and the ram in without issue. Nice idea with the fixing plate & thumb screws too.

Already installed WHS2011 and all seems good so far.

Just about to install the drivers and XBMC... unless it explodes when the "non" server apps get loaded.
 
I think I'm too spoilt with a Macbook Pro and Apple TV - the microserver is too loud for me to have in any living space.

Mine lives in the garage.
 
MikeHiow said:
I think I'm too spoilt with a Macbook Pro and Apple TV - the microserver is too loud for me to have in any living space.

Mine lives in the garage.
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Really? as I can not hear my microserver at all, and when a MBP gets going its fans are way louder than the microserver

Kimbie
 
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