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

having some weird issues (software related I'm guessing) I have my microserver mainly as a nas running whs2011 now for some reason I cant write to it from my desktop unless I restart the server, this is fine till I start my win 8 desktop up again, any ideas?

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think I sorted it, I got a replacement motherboard from hp a couple of weeks ago and the date was showing 2011, DOH! still don't understand why it worked on reboot.
 
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now i finally have lights out working it is great

server turns on when any device wireless or not does
saves it being on all night and at work and/or turning it on and off manually

one drive fails to backup when the SERVER backs up 99 times out of 100 tho
 
Hi all, apologies if it's already been answered in the thread (I did have a look) but does anyone know the best place to get the Gen8 Microserver? I had a look on google but kept getting redirected to the US HP website, is this the only place at the moment?
 
TheRealSchizo said:
Hi all, apologies if it's already been answered in the thread (I did have a look) but does anyone know the best place to get the Gen8 Microserver? I had a look on google but kept getting redirected to the US HP website, is this the only place at the moment?
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They seem to be in stock at the supplier I normally use for server kit, they sell servers 'direct'. Hint hint.
 
Does anyone know of a good cheap replacement 1U PSU for the Microserver? mine has just died... been looking at a PicoPSU which seem a little pricey...
 
Attu90 said:
Some pages back someone replaced the PSU with a Shuttle PSU, I think he said it was a little wider but did fit and the cables need extensions to fit.
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Having been a long-time Shuttle user, also be aware that the replacement Shuttle PSUs are not cheap, and have always been the first thing to go in my Shuttle boxes. I think I've seen three die over the years, and that's way above the number of conventional and pico PSUs I've seen die.
 
HP P410 alternative

I has a question about a SAS controller for my Mini Proliant. Basically, I managed to get an HP P410 with 512MB flash cache for a bargain price and was very happy with that, BUT, my own fault for not exhaustively looking a gift-horse in the mouth, I didn't realise it does not support JBOD. So, any of my simple Windows disks are now inaccessible until I get back to my box and remove the card and drop my old Startech SATA card back in. As the P410 doesn't do JBOD, it's practically useless to me now and I want a replacement. With that in mind, can anyone come up with a decent alternative? Requirements would be:
2xSAS/8087 internal ports so it can take over access duties to the Proliant backplane and do proper on-board RAID5 XOR duties, taking the load off the CPU of my N36L.
Properly supports JBOD/passthrough mode so when I drop a simple Windows disk in the OS will access it natively.

I've seen other cards like the Dell M1015 and LSI equivalents are popular, but that also is meant to have poor R5 performance and I don't know if that or the faster M5015 support JBOD. Anyone that can throw me any bone here would be appreciated :)
 
MagicBoy said:
You expecting to access the existing data on a JBOD array with a new SAS controller? Highly unlikely it'll work if its any sort of hardware array.
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It would indeed appear that this is quite a tough ask! The Highpoint 2720 seems to be one of very few that will offer me straight-through drive access for my existing Windows drives as well as hardware R5 support for the new arrays I'm creating. Not that I don't trust Highpoint, but an LSI equivalent even at a premium would be welcome, but I've only just started looking for that.
 
MagicBoy said:
You expecting to access the existing data on a JBOD array with a new SAS controller? Highly unlikely it'll work if its any sort of hardware array.
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Well, when it comes to the XOR requirement, that stems from the slow performance I saw when a software R5 array was split between the on-board backplane of the N36L, and a couple of drives in the optical bay being controlled by a Startech card. That ended up an array taking over 24hrs to create and grindingly slow (like 10MB/sec) write speeds. If I were to use a non-RAID card like the M1015, do you think the CPU would not be the bottleneck? i.e. Was the previous massive problem just the fact that different drives on the same array were hanging off different controllers?
 
Attu90 said:
Some pages back someone replaced the PSU with a Shuttle PSU, I think he said it was a little wider but did fit and the cables need extensions to fit.
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enigmo said:
Having been a long-time Shuttle user, also be aware that the replacement Shuttle PSUs are not cheap, and have always been the first thing to go in my Shuttle boxes. I think I've seen three die over the years, and that's way above the number of conventional and pico PSUs I've seen die.
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I saw that post, but wasn't sure which one to get? - I did manage to find a 1U PSU 150w from the same place as you can get the PicoPSU in the UK. Looks like it'll do the job for £27, just need to pull the trigger.
 
I'm thinking of getting a n54l and sticking nas for free on it, can anyone tell me how many sata ports these have? Aiming for 4 3tb reds, with a 64gb ssd cache drive. I assume they can boot from USB too?
Any idea if they support registered ecc ram?
Thanks
 
4 spaces for hdd's in caddies, which is by some bespoke connector to motherboard, one sata port on mobo for an optical and one external sata port.

Not sure a cache drive would work in the microserver, might be wrong about that tho?
 
It has a 4-port mini sas connector that gives you 4 sata drive bays. There is also a single internal sata connector and an esata port on the back which with the modded bios will give you ahci on
 
You could buy a whole new MicroServer for less than £100 and then have lots of spare parts.
 
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