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

[K@rl]

down to 130 on another e retailer - just ordered another

 

[pepp77]

down to 130 on another e retailer - just ordered another

And with 4GB instead of 2GB RAM.

 

[easyrider]

And with 4GB instead of 2GB RAM.

Yeah thats a good deal

 

[Steveocee]

Mine's been dispatched So hope it arrives tomorrow!

 

[madman045]

So with the N54L a bargain, anyone find a decent price for either 8gb or 16gb ram?

 

[Nymins]

How quiet are these things with the stock fans? I see you can get quieter ones for the psu and exhaust, but was wondering how the stock one performed?

 

[Steveocee]

How quiet are these things with the stock fans? I see you can get quieter ones for the psu and exhaust, but was wondering how the stock one performed?

They're not too bad to be honest. Some people stick them behind the TV as HTPC's. WHen mine have been in for setting up and stuff I wouldn't say they were loud by any means.

 

[meandu229]

How quiet are these things with the stock fans? I see you can get quieter ones for the psu and exhaust, but was wondering how the stock one performed?

Mine is next to TV and we dont notice its on, never hear a thing from it, we do have 2 fish tanks in the room which may drown it out but they are pretty quiet too. So I think they are pretty quiet if you want in bedroom and are light sleeper then maybe you will need to change, if not I wouldnt bother.

 

[Nymins]

Hmmm. Tempting. Wouldn't mind one for practicing with a couple of VMs.

 

[-Mike-]

Convince me to buy one gents - I currently have my photos backed up on raided drives in my main pc.. but something is telling me to get a box and dedicate it to the cause... Would also be useful to be able to access my photos on the laptop without having to turn the pc on every time!

Would this be capable of windows server 2008?

 

[Swarfega]

Personally I wouldn't consider raided drives a backup.
Yes 2008 capable.

 

[nutcase]

I'm running 2012 R2 standard on mine.

 

[decmatt]

Convince me to buy one gents - I currently have my photos backed up on raided drives in my main pc.. but something is telling me to get a box and dedicate it to the cause... Would also be useful to be able to access my photos on the laptop without having to turn the pc on every time!

As long as you leave the Server on, yes

Would this be capable of windows server 2008?

Yes, many of us do. I run Windows Server 2012.

 

[mctiny]

On my Windows server I used a program called SmartSync Pro. It is fairly old now but will do exactly what you need it to.

On my Linux box I use rsync, not sure if there is a windows version of that available?

Personally I wouldn't consider raided drives a backup.
Yes 2008 capable.

Why not RAID for Bacukp?

using RAID 1,5 or 10 is great no?

 

[Deleted member 138126]

RAID is not backup. If you delete something, it is gone. RAID protects you against disk failure, which is not the same thing as backup.

 

[mctiny]

RAID is not backup. If you delete something, it is gone. RAID protects you against disk failure, which is not the same thing as backup.

True but, storing backups in a RAID Array is fine.

 

[Frozennova]

True but, storing backups in a RAID Array is fine.

I wouldn't consider something stored on a raid array a backup, it's redundancy against a drive failed but a goosed controller could still kill all of the data on the array

 

[Swarfega]

I wouldn't consider something stored on a raid array a backup, it's redundancy against a drive failed but a goosed controller could still kill all of the data on the array

This.

 

[Steveocee]

Hence why I have raid across my main 4 bays for redundancy and speed and then that array backs it's valuable data up to a 5th in the odd bay 1 box solution!

 

[bremen1874]

Hence why I have raid across my main 4 bays for redundancy and speed and then that array backs it's valuable data up to a 5th in the odd bay 1 box solution!

I'm sure there's a well known saying about eggs and baskets...