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

Essexraptor said:
okey dokey......
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Not sure if that's sarcasm. Just to add it's not possible for a ISP to cap data to a specific system, just the line.

Also I don't think he means upload

Have had my microserver up and running for a while and has worked perfect with a stable 6MB/s up until a couple of weeks ago
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If I do this...

Have had my microserver up and running for a while and has worked perfect with a stable 6MB/s, up until a couple of weeks ago
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sorry didn't explain much, and yeah i mean download.

all my downloads are done after midnight so can't be the traffic management.

I am using supernews with 15 connections on each server (eu & us) & SSL enabled using sabnzbd.

microserver is connected directly to router (E3000) via cat6 cable with the latest broadcom network driver installed.
 
Wondering if maybe when it's unpacking that it's slowing the system down? Need to check logs and match them up with the download times.

Could try without SSL maybe.

Just the 2gb of ram yeah? What OS?
 
Tobes said:
Wondering if maybe when it's unpacking that it's slowing the system down? Need to check logs and match them up with the download times.

Could try without SSL maybe.

Just the 2gb of ram yeah? What OS?
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never thought of disabling the file sorting as i have it set to extract and than move to another drive on completion.

Running WHS 2011 with 6GB RAM.

Have just grabbed a largish file and downloaded at an average of 10MB/s so i guess the problem is the unpacking.

Is there a way to unpack the files once the total downloads have finished?
 
You could turn it off (SAB I assume) and then manually do it. Or you could set it to pause downloads while it unpacks and moves.
 
I just updated the ESXi 5 on the Microserver with the latest couple of patches (update 1 and a post update 1 patch) so I could try out an install of Windows 8 on ESXi.

If anyone is interested in trying this the procedure isn't actually that difficult and can be found here:

http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vsphere/how-to-patch-vsphere-5-esxi-without-update-manager/

Worked a treat for me. Not noticed any other performance related improvements (might be too early to tell).
 
Just ordered myself one of these as I was looking in to a NAS box, but this just seemed to good to turn down.
 
Ordered 8 gigs of ram for it, will put server 2008 on it I think or unraid but the unraid set up is scaring me a bit, I hate linux.
 
Works fine for me. As above you though 8GB recommended.
As long as your VM's aren't thrashing the HDD's this box works fine as a host.
 
I have a permenant Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller and Arch Linux on mine. Depending on what I need I have a Windows 7 client, Windows 8 and Windows XP. I also had two Exchange 2010 servers as I was playing around with DAG. It wasn't the quickest but it worked. It sped up though when moving from 4GB to 8GB.
 
grrrr Im good with hardware but so **** with software at times. I just want to plug 4 hard drives in my box, be able to swap them for bigger drives in time and it be EASY.

grrrrr! Swaying toward Server 2008 as it has the drive extender and I know Microsoft
 
DiCe! said:
grrrr Im good with hardware but so **** with software at times. I just want to plug 4 hard drives in my box, be able to swap them for bigger drives in time and it be EASY.

grrrrr! Swaying toward Server 2008 as it has the drive extender and I know Microsoft
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Or WHS 2011 with Stablebit Drivepool or Drivebender as add ins :D

Total outlay a shade over 60 quid
 
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Essexraptor said:
Or WHS 2011 with Stablebit Drivepool or Drivebender as add ins :D

Total outlay a shade over 60 quid
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Then thats what ill go for :)

do they offer the parity service like unraid? or when it says duplicate files is it an exact mirror?

So If I have 4x2TBs I would only get 4tbs of storage?
 
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