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

Tinders said:
The radeon 5450 is a good shout, I use a 6450 with good effect.
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Whats the major difference between the two? I assume the 6450 is newer? Is it better?

easyrider said:
Just make sure it has a thin cooler on it
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How thin exactly? Would something like this be OK?

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For HTPC use there's nothing to pick between the 5450 and 6450, and any sane person won't use it for gaming. Just buy what's available, fits and is a good price.
 
Probably a long shot but can anyone recommend a USB freeview tuner which can be recognised when passed through in esxi.

My google skills are lacking here some saying one works however others saying it doesn't, all I really want to be able to do is record some shows and I haven't got a prefence on which OS or application to use either.
 
Sorry to be an absolute dunce but do the 5450 and 6450 both give audio as well as the video through HDMI as the N54L's don't have any onboard audio do they?
 
Hi Folks.

Ive just picked up a HPN54L to replace my HPN40L. Can I just swap out the disks including the OS drive to the N54L to get it going?, Ive got 2 3tb drives in raid config and a 3tb as a general drive and the 250gb that serves as my OS drive.
 
Tinders said:
Hi Folks.

Ive just picked up a HPN54L to replace my HPN40L. Can I just swap out the disks including the OS drive to the N54L to get it going?, Ive got 2 3tb drives in raid config and a 3tb as a general drive and the 250gb that serves as my OS drive.
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Yes, I did exactly this a couple of months ago (from an N36L to an N54L).
 
Lazy said:
Probably a long shot but can anyone recommend a USB freeview tuner which can be recognised when passed through in esxi.

My google skills are lacking here some saying one works however others saying it doesn't, all I really want to be able to do is record some shows and I haven't got a prefence on which OS or application to use either.
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USB pass through works pretty well, I can't imagine why it wouldn't work. Passing through pci cards won't work but usb should be fine.
 
I'm looking to get one of these microservers while there is still cash back available, I was wondering on what operating system to put on it either on SSD or USB with the following hard drives that I will put in it: 2x 3TB & 2x 2TB.

I currently have a Synology NAS with the 2x 2TB installed which are acting as JBOD as I wanted to maximize my available storage space, but now I need to expand so got the two 3TB's as well. My plan was to put the 3TB's in the microserver as well as the 2TB's and sell the Synology.

I don't think I would be able to get any kind of RAID configure going with that kind of combination of hard drives as I know they need to all be the same size, so I think I may go down the JBOD route again and perhaps in the near future attach an expansion unit for possible backup, so with that in mind if anyone has any recommendations for the operation system that would be great!
 
UnRAID... it's a halfway house between proper RAID and JBOD that still provides some redundancy, and suits your mismatched drive sizes perfectly - you can use any combination and number of drives, the only condition is that the parity drive (one drive, similar to RAID-4) must be the same size as the largest drive in the rest of the array
 
uncle_rufus said:
UnRAID... it's a halfway house between proper RAID and JBOD that still provides some redundancy, and suits your mismatched drive sizes perfectly - you can use any combination and number of drives, the only condition is that the parity drive (one drive, similar to RAID-4) must be the same size as the largest drive in the rest of the array
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Just did a quick read up on it, interesting concept, I will have to check it out, many thanks! :)

Shame though the free version is only up to 3 hard drives!
 
Uhtred said:
USB pass through works pretty well, I can't imagine why it wouldn't work. Passing through pci cards won't work but usb should be fine.
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Cheers for the reply. After further googling I've found a cofirmed working freeview usb tuner so will just have to hope it is fine with my system.

The issues I was finding from other forums were suggesting audio and no video, no display at all when tuned to a channel or when recording as well as stuttering.

Just prefer to pick up a confirmed working tuner than have the hassle of returning multiple different ones with known issues. I will post back here if it does work to help others that may find this via google.

EDIT: hauppauge WinTV-Duet running fine with mythTV
 
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FerrariEnzo said:
I'm looking to get one of these microservers while there is still cash back available, I was wondering on what operating system to put on it either on SSD or USB with the following hard drives that I will put in it: 2x 3TB & 2x 2TB.

I currently have a Synology NAS with the 2x 2TB installed which are acting as JBOD as I wanted to maximize my available storage space, but now I need to expand so got the two 3TB's as well. My plan was to put the 3TB's in the microserver as well as the 2TB's and sell the Synology.

I don't think I would be able to get any kind of RAID configure going with that kind of combination of hard drives as I know they need to all be the same size, so I think I may go down the JBOD route again and perhaps in the near future attach an expansion unit for possible backup, so with that in mind if anyone has any recommendations for the operation system that would be great!
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Dude, Sounds like you need some advice :)

Whack windows on it and install stablebit drive pool. Pool all your disks into one volume...It offers redundancy if a dive fails and all the drives can be read in any system.

Thats what I am using in my server 2012 R2 microserver and my windows 8.1 pro backup microserver. And its solid as a rock. Big following over at the we got served forums. Raid at home is not needed IMO and can become more trouble than its worth.
 
FerrariEnzo said:
I'm looking to get one of these microservers while there is still cash back available, I was wondering on what operating system to put on it either on SSD or USB with the following hard drives that I will put in it: 2x 3TB & 2x 2TB.

I currently have a Synology NAS with the 2x 2TB installed which are acting as JBOD as I wanted to maximize my available storage space, but now I need to expand so got the two 3TB's as well. My plan was to put the 3TB's in the microserver as well as the 2TB's and sell the Synology.

I don't think I would be able to get any kind of RAID configure going with that kind of combination of hard drives as I know they need to all be the same size, so I think I may go down the JBOD route again and perhaps in the near future attach an expansion unit for possible backup, so with that in mind if anyone has any recommendations for the operation system that would be great!
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I'm running JBOD as well but I use XPEnology not windows. I find window to restrictive and a pain to setup.

XPEnology is the Synology software ported for the HP nas. Easy to setup it has all the android\apple software you could want.
Also you can pick what profile you use with any other hardware on the network.
IE my Sony Blu Ray 3D stopped working with the nas because the latest firmware had Cinavia
so I just went in to the hardware list in XPEnology and changed the profile of the Blu Ray DNLA now it works :) Try doing that with windows :D
 
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