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

Sh4rkie · 2 Feb 2011 at 20:53

mofi said:
I dont see why using sleep mode should wear the box more than using hibernating/power off/on?

I miss sleep mode on my Windows 7 setup which I hope will be available in a future bios update.

To be clear i didn't say using sleep would wear the box out vs hib/pwr off, that line is missing a comma my bad (gramma, spelling and punctation isn't my strong point).

"Because it's not got a sleep mode as such, to reduce wear on the box you could always use a power off on idle software, and then WOL to bring it back up."

What I meant was because it doesn't support sleep which for some (inc myself) is a pain an alternative would be software, saving additional power on hours when being not actively being used.

IAmATeaf · 2 Feb 2011 at 21:04

Isn't the reason that there's no sleep mode cause it's a server?

Sh4rkie · 2 Feb 2011 at 22:22

IAmATeaf said:
Isn't the reason that there's no sleep mode cause it's a server?

Yep, one can hope that the large adoption by home users they might enable the ability with a future bios update...

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-Netservers/Microserver-and-suspend-S3/td-p/2345569

tsinc80697 · 2 Feb 2011 at 23:03

How long did it take people to get the cheque once they had been notified they had received your letter?

bremen1874 · 2 Feb 2011 at 23:11

claim posted: 16/12/2010
claim accepted: 20/12/2010
cheque received: 20/01/2011

normski_ · 3 Feb 2011 at 09:03

Syx said:
That's a great price including NDD - I couldn't get it from HP for any less than £280.

HP offering 10% cashback plus Free NDD if you purchase via Quidco.

edscdk · 3 Feb 2011 at 09:09

anyone using ubuntu desktop (latest with all updates) have the issue that pressing the off button does not shut the machine down? currently I jsut unplug the mains from mine as the off button being pressed is ignored by the OS (im sure it did work initially)

CraigN · 3 Feb 2011 at 16:36

So how many people had there rebates then ?

I had my email confirming on the 10th Jan but not had anything in the mail yet.

Methanoid · 3 Feb 2011 at 16:40

CraigN said:
So how many people had there rebates then ?

I had my email confirming on the 10th Jan but not had anything in the mail yet.

See above - See above

tsinc80697 · 3 Feb 2011 at 19:40

Thanks bremen. Mine should be here on 17th Feb then, looks like they're taking the full 28 days to get the cheque out to people!

Zarf · 4 Feb 2011 at 01:05

claim posted: 16/12/2010
claim accepted: 06/01/2011
cheque received: 02/02/2011

Not especially speedy, but I have the check now.

MikeHiow · 4 Feb 2011 at 01:40

Hrm, these would have made awesome Asterisk boxes, but PCI-E line cards are a lot more expensive, and the ones I use are too big for half height :/

chenko · 4 Feb 2011 at 17:03

If you have 4x2TB are you lot installing the OS on one of them drives?

Or any alternatives? Since this can take an optical drive, we can attach a "OS drive" to that and run from there yea? This is a bit obvious but I cannot find the connection type there, SATA "optical" bay or IDE?

I got to the stage where I was about to buy a Synology unit to run sab etc, although now seeing this I am sorely tempted though im never sure about the software... I Could just run gentoo or something from scratch but I do like the NAS style interfaces of FreeNAS, but then I lose being able to easily add sab and other such stuff (and possibly zoneminder which I am thinking of).

Nikumba · 4 Feb 2011 at 18:48

chenko said:
If you have 4x2TB are you lot installing the OS on one of them drives?

Or any alternatives? Since this can take an optical drive, we can attach a "OS drive" to that and run from there yea? This is a bit obvious but I cannot find the connection type there, SATA "optical" bay or IDE?

I got to the stage where I was about to buy a Synology unit to run sab etc, although now seeing this I am sorely tempted though im never sure about the software... I Could just run gentoo or something from scratch but I do like the NAS style interfaces of FreeNAS, but then I lose being able to easily add sab and other such stuff (and possibly zoneminder which I am thinking of).

You can put a HDD in the optical bay, you just need a bay converter, OCUK sell them. You will need to get a molex to sata power cable and a SATA cable over 45cm long

Kimbie

Nikumba · 4 Feb 2011 at 19:49

So with this OCZ deal going on which of these would be good for the microserver http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18238238 ?

Kimbie

chenko · 4 Feb 2011 at 20:06

Nikumba said:
You can put a HDD in the optical bay, you just need a bay converter, OCUK sell them. You will need to get a molex to sata power cable and a SATA cable over 45cm long

Kimbie

I figured as much, so can run 5 drives.

Where is the 250gb drive put, is it part ofthe 4 docks or put away somewhere else? (effectively making this a 6 drive unit).

Nikumba · 4 Feb 2011 at 20:08

chenko said:
I figured as much, so can run 5 drives.

Where is the 250gb drive put, is it part ofthe 4 docks or put away somewhere else? (effectively making this a 6 drive unit).

When it comes from HP it is in one of the 4 bays, you can then relocate this up to the top bay.

If you want to make more than a 4 drive array you will ideally need an external SATA card with or without raid, as the port the 5"1/4 plugs into a sort of IDE/SATA port so not a true SATA port.

The drive cage uses a SAS connector so you can only have the 4 drives on there

Kimbie

chenko · 4 Feb 2011 at 20:20

Nikumba said:
When it comes from HP it is in one of the 4 bays, you can then relocate this up to the top bay.

If you want to make more than a 4 drive array you will ideally need an external SATA card with or without raid, as the port the 5"1/4 plugs into a sort of IDE/SATA port so not a true SATA port.

The drive cage uses a SAS connector so you can only have the 4 drives on there

Kimbie

PCIe SATA was a thought for a later date. Is there any space internally to hack a few more drives in? I read through the thread but very briefly so might have missed any relevant references.

What's the going rate on the cheapest atm? lowest I can find is ~~£259.13~~ £257.39.

And is anyone running linux distros in ram drives on this unit?

Berwhale · 4 Feb 2011 at 22:16

Has anyone tried installing the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Release Candidate yet? Mine's hung at 44% of the install.

Nomen Nescio · 5 Feb 2011 at 08:21

Very slow transfers on WHS

Has anyone with WHS V1 installed simmelar LAN speeds like Sh4rkie on page 23?

Setup:
OS drive in the top bay, 2 x 2 Tb in the cold swap bays.

LAN speeds on Gigabit network: max 5 MBps
Internal transfers from one folder to another with the file manager in the Home Server Console took 15 minutes and on the old P4 2.0GHz in was just 2 minutes.

AHCI enabled in Bios. NIC set to auto.

I think this box is not suiteble for WHS v1... :confused: