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

enigmo · 8 Feb 2013 at 10:42

Ash2097 said:
Is that £169.99 then £100 off?

Sorry just seen your post about the over seas, cheapest I can see is £205 then £100 off.

There is at least one place doing them for £198 inc VAT and do the cashback. That's for the 2GB/250GB version. They also do the 4GB/no HD version but that's like £200+VAT!

Oh Ed not again. · 8 Feb 2013 at 12:22

Just found that place, handy.

RE: 4GB/no HD prices - that's HP's RAM prices for you! They do it on the enterprise level as well, extortionate prices for ECC memory.

quickshot89 · 8 Feb 2013 at 12:24

enigmo said:
There is at least one place doing them for £198 inc VAT and do the cashback. That's for the 2GB/250GB version. They also do the 4GB/no HD version but that's like £200+VAT!

Where

for £98 i will get one

DiCe! · 8 Feb 2013 at 12:33

DiCe! said:
The speed on this thing is painful for clearing hard drives!

2TB WD Red, Unraid wants to clear so I set it off, 6% over 12 hours. Kill me now.

I have hit 32%

I MIGHT be finished by Sunday night....

enigmo · 8 Feb 2013 at 13:54

quickshot89 said:
Where for £98 i will get one

I think I'm right in that I can't talk about competitors shops here directly, but, if you Google for n40l Servers, you should be Directly on the right track.

Tackle_Berry · 8 Feb 2013 at 14:43

Thanks Enigmo just ordered my second one.

Guru · 8 Feb 2013 at 18:55

Mine keeps blue screening at the moment

annoying for all the people on my teamspeak server lol

MeMeMeMe · 9 Feb 2013 at 04:48

enigmo said:
I think I'm right in that I can't talk about competitors shops here directly, but, if you Google for n40l Servers, you should be Directly on the right track.

Lol. very clever.

And at that price, it's tempting to pick up a third!

MrKnifey · 9 Feb 2013 at 11:01

I want one.. Don't fully need one... but may buy one!! ARGGHHH

Stu · 9 Feb 2013 at 15:46

enigmo said:
There is at least one place doing them for £198 inc VAT and do the cashback. That's for the 2GB/250GB version. They also do the 4GB/no HD version but that's like £200+VAT!

That's a good price. I paid £209, then £100 cash back. FYI, the 4GB model is not eligible for cash back.

covenantuk · 10 Feb 2013 at 17:23

Got mine directly on Friday and loving it. Is there a decent central resource page anywhere? I'd like to give a modded BIOS a try....

Thumpsta · 10 Feb 2013 at 17:31

http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3506-more-interesting-microserver-links/#entry35009

I used the link of this page.

Pho · 10 Feb 2013 at 19:51

Argh.. so I estimate an N40L + graphics card + 8GB memory + DVB-S2 or DVB-T2 card would come to around £223.

So this begs the question, do I just convert my current PC (E2180/4GB memory which is on 24/7 anyway) into a server and build a new cheap-ish i5 build instead, for around £300.

My plan would be to run a server OS on it as run it as an AD server / file server / media PC (XBMC + recorder) / backup box.

Decisions :/.

ste_bla · 10 Feb 2013 at 19:56

Prob getting one of these whats best software for them?

Got a copy of win7 pro and whs 11 unused

After using it for downloads and media storage! Also can I turn off raid and just have 4 separate discs show up?

Lastly I wish to dump under stair and use laptop/desktop to remotely control etc what best software for this?

MrKnifey · 10 Feb 2013 at 20:00

Don't know about everyone else, but im using Team viewer on all my home and work PC's at the moment.

decto · 10 Feb 2013 at 21:13

ste_bla said:
Prob getting one of these whats best software for them?

Got a copy of win7 pro and whs 11 unused

After using it for downloads and media storage! Also can I turn off raid and just have 4 separate discs show up?

Lastly I wish to dump under stair and use laptop/desktop to remotely control etc what best software for this?

I just use Remote Desktop with WHS2011 , perfect on the home network

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DiCe! · 10 Feb 2013 at 21:29

Unraid on mine, purely as a media server streaming to a HTPC under my TV. Use Putty to get into it and the web console.

You can install W7 W8 etc and just have 4 drives without RAID yes.

MeMeMeMe · 11 Feb 2013 at 06:29

crankbro said:
Don't know about everyone else, but im using Team viewer on all my home and work PC's at the moment.

I used to use that, but it was very irritating on the HTPC. Since when you end a session with Teamviewer, it puts that pop up in the middle of the screen, which the non-technical family members can never figure out how to remove with the remote.

I've switched to the Google Chrome Remote Desktop extension. Works brilliantly.

Cyber-Mav · 11 Feb 2013 at 08:38

i got 16gb ram now in the microserver, its now caching lots more

Oh Ed not again. · 11 Feb 2013 at 10:12

I plan to run Ubuntu 12.10 on mine, then using a mixture of Samba and AFP for sharing out to Windows and OSX clients for file/backup serving duties.

Then planing to rebuild HTPC/download server functions on to this using XBMC, SabNZBd etc.

Control via SSH, and and MCE remote.