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

waso_dude said:
Anyone running Fedora/Centos/Redhat with virtualisation? I got this to be my NAS replacement but also want to use it for VMs for exam practise so I dont' have to run them on my main machine.
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ESXi, RDM to pass your drives to the NAS then fire away with the others. They've app got the necessary vmware tools providing drivers amongst other things
 
I have just ordered 13 Gen8 Microservers with 16GB Ram, 2*3TB HD, and E3-1220Lv2 Xeon's for my support staff to have a lab/test/scratch environment of there own (i.e. to play around with in work).

1 of them is for me though ;)
 
ChrissyT88 said:
Tempted to pick up one of the N54s whilst they are going cheap. Is the AMD embedded chip powerful enough to run a file server / NAS alongside a pfsense VM?
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If you have sufficient ram, its run just fine as a VM server for that.
I have VMware ESXi, Nas4Free and ClearOs running on mine. All I did was up the ram to 8Gb.
 
ChrissyT88 said:
Is that not a good price (new)? Looking back through the thread, it seems prices vary between £100-200 with cashback. Just not sure whether it would be better to pick up one of these or spend a bit more on an ITX board + newer CPU.
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It's the best price I've seen since the cashback ended.
 
Hi all, for a long time now my System drive has been running like a dog and I'm sick of it.. it's currently housed in the top Expansion bay and connected to the internal SATA port on the board. I remember when I first set it up I looked at information about a hacked firmware in open up the full speed of this port, and I "think" I installed it, but is there a way to check?
 
Si. said:
Hi all, for a long time now my System drive has been running like a dog and I'm sick of it.. it's currently housed in the top Expansion bay and connected to the internal SATA port on the board. I remember when I first set it up I looked at information about a hacked firmware in open up the full speed of this port, and I "think" I installed it, but is there a way to check?
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Check the settings in the bios and the version.
 
Checked and I do have the modified BIOS installed.. must just be a slow drive or something..
 
You also need to ensure that 'SATA IDE Combined Mode' is disabled (as per below)

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I had exactly the same issue and it causes any drives on the optical connecter to run like a dog if you have this enabled as it's speed limited.
 
ChrissyT88 said:
Is that not a good price (new)? Looking back through the thread, it seems prices vary between £100-200 with cashback. Just not sure whether it would be better to pick up one of these or spend a bit more on an ITX board + newer CPU.
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I got mine for free in the end, so can't beat that.

130 is ok-ish. the thing is, I've spent about another 120 on it afterwards - fan, cables, extensions, passive GPU and passive PSU.

if you want serious upgrades, you might consider building, if you want to just chuck in the HDDs and forget, it's a good buy.
 
Is the N54L a decent upgrade from the N40L? I've been running the 40L with WHS2011 on it for a few years. It's been very average, WHS isn't very good for drivers and generally isn't that user friendly. Also I use it as my Htpc and it xbmc is continually crashing back to the desktop, as well as the ATI control panel taking over all the memory! Is it possible to install win 7 on it?
 
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