Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD
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Works surprisingly well on mine too, I have the power button/light and the blue HP covered, in fact it works so well my wife phoned me one day to ask how to turn it onBlack electrician tape sorted it for me
what's HPs endgame here? they are selling for so cheap (after cashback) that I doubt therte's any margin in it for them? A neat way to dispose redundant hardware? A way of getting home servers to homes that would never buy them otherwise, then get users familiar with the HP server brand and get them to upgrade?
P.s. does anyone know if the n36L is upgradable? I remember n36L was sluggish on Windows home server 2011 with vmware running windows 8. (needed vmware because the software I was not 100% safe to user on host OS)
P.s. does anyone know if the n36L is upgradable? I remember n36L was sluggish on Windows home server 2011 with vmware running windows 8. (needed vmware because the software I was not 100% safe to user on host OS)
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None of the pre Gen8 Microservers have upgradeable processors, they're soldered to the board.
I'm pretty sure HP are just dumping the remaining stock. From a price point-of-view they're actually more expensive now than they've been for most of time they've been available.
I'm pretty sure HP are just dumping the remaining stock. From a price point-of-view they're actually more expensive now than they've been for most of time they've been available.
Thanks, I figured it would be soldered boards,I suppose just buying a gen8 motherboard is out of the question because it will probably be just as expensive as a whole unit..
There's probably as much margin in as a desktop PC. There's no particularly expensive parts in a Microserver, I think people are just used to small PCs being overpriced (especially the cases) so it seems cheap.
my theory was they sell these at little / no margin to fiddle their server sales figures - as in number sold
my theory was they sell these at little / no margin to fiddle their server sales figures - as in number sold
They're still an absolute bargain at 129.99 though!
Loving my two and the new setup. Just installed a 6450 GFXcard and another 2GB of ram in the backup server in the study...Installed XBMC alowing me to get rid of the HTPC in the lounge.
Just installed 16GB of ram in the Media server running server 2012
A 4 bay icybox hotswap cost nearly as much as the server itself
i think i used blue safety tape from the microresver itself to cover up the hp logo.
I used folded paper, made an 'n' type fold and used tape to hold it in place.
I have this issue quite a lot, i swear blue lights are the bane of my life, since falling in love with the rich blue LED on the PS2, its spread to pretty much everything to the point that a small room can be lit on computer LED's alone
I think most of my hatred stems from the fact that Bloomin everything has blue LEDs in them, CPU coolers, fans, fan controllers, mobos etc. If you dont want blue LED's your left either having to disable them or pick inferior products because the manufacturers plaster their product full of the evil little things! It carries through to things like mobos with blue components (heatsinks, sata ports, ram sockets, PCI-E ports etc).
The HP light could warn passing ships at night, and im in Manchester!
I have this issue quite a lot, i swear blue lights are the bane of my life, since falling in love with the rich blue LED on the PS2, its spread to pretty much everything to the point that a small room can be lit on computer LED's alone
I think most of my hatred stems from the fact that Bloomin everything has blue LEDs in them, CPU coolers, fans, fan controllers, mobos etc. If you dont want blue LED's your left either having to disable them or pick inferior products because the manufacturers plaster their product full of the evil little things! It carries through to things like mobos with blue components (heatsinks, sata ports, ram sockets, PCI-E ports etc).
The HP light could warn passing ships at night, and im in Manchester!
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Mine has 3 in... 2x Toshiba 5700 rpms plus the 250Gb drive that the N54L comes with...
The noise of the stock fans is louder than the decent drives, but if you replace both fans it's pretty quiet - you can hear the heads parking and a little bit of low level hum but that's about it. Have mine sat about 1 metre behind me at about head height in my office room and barely notice it's on
The noise of the stock fans is louder than the decent drives, but if you replace both fans it's pretty quiet - you can hear the heads parking and a little bit of low level hum but that's about it. Have mine sat about 1 metre behind me at about head height in my office room and barely notice it's on
Both fans? I wasn't aware you could change the PSU one?
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Yeah you can... the PSU fan is slightly more involved to change but if you search back through this thread you should be able to find a post that explains how to do it, and a post sometime after that from me which adds a few details after I gave it a go... Definitely recommend it, didn't cost or take very long and makes the world of difference