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

Just placed my order for the N54L, should be here tomorrow.
Bought 2 x 3TB drives aswell, they too should be here tomorrow.
 
It's arrived with one ding to the side of the cardboard box, but nothing to get worried about.

Just waiting on the drives to arrive.
 
boxman2000 said:
That moment you think you're alone in the office and you finally crack that fart you've been brewing for ages, only for your boss to come out of his office a few moments later and stand next to your desk wanting to go over a few points, all the while trying not to die of asphyxiation.

Not really doing to be able blame anyone else for that one :/
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Pretty sure this is the wrong thread for that story.
 
meandu229 said:
Pretty sure this is the wrong thread for that story.
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That moment you post a comment on the wrong thread!

Anyway, I was going to post something a bit more topical - how much ram are people using on their Proliants?

I'm on the stock 2gig but trying to figure out if 6gb or 8gb would be best (using as file server mainly, torrents, Plex and file server).
 
I just went for the full 16 - currently only using a small amount of that but I do plan on upping the roles at some point.
 
Steveocee said:
I found a company who are actually worse than Yodel! Amazon Logistics.....
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Amazon Logistics have been nothing but awesome for me. I think it is a clear indictment of the dreadful state of the parcel delivery industry in the UK that Amazon had to start its own company. In my case, Amazon Logistics staff are always efficient, resourceful (attempting to leave the package with neighbours or hidden out of sight), basically I never have problems with them. DPD are pretty good with their 2 hour window text messages, but with Amazon Logistics that's not an issue as the package always gets delivered somehow.
 
Righto,
Update for those who might want to know.

So far
Gaffer taped a 2.5" 120GB sata hdd into the ODD bay
OMV installed to 120GB
2x3TB striped.
Copying data over at the moment, about 5hrs for 2TB

To do
Copy over 2TB from old NAS.
Setup a SQL server for the XBMC shared library
Setup Thunderbird profile storage on the new NAS
Setup NFS shares for Raspbmc to access.
 
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CaNsA said:
Righto,
Update for those who might want to know.
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Nice :)

When you say OVM - is it a typo for OpenMediaVault? Or something else I can't think of

I have to say I've been tempted to give OMV a try - running UnRAID at the moment and although I like it I don't really want to pay any money just to be able to use all 4 bays in the N54L... Also nice as UnRAID is I sometimes think I'd prefer a system I can more easily install persistant stuff on (UnRAID effectively re-installs itself after every reboot as far as I can tell)

Unfortunately I don't have anything big enough to transfer my existing files onto to make the switch and try it out - I'll have to buy a big external drive at some point so I can do that
 
waso_dude said:
good luck with Yodel, Took them 3 days to deliver mine, after delivering to the wrong address losing it and then it finally got to me.
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to this day I wonder how could the Yodel driver possibly deliver my package (used to live at nr. 96) to random neighbour at 74, about 30 metres away and not leave a card or anything. Luckily the neighbour contacted me the next day.

so again, good luck with Yodel.
 
uncle_rufus said:
Nice :)

When you say OVM - is it a typo for OpenMediaVault? Or something else I can't think of

I have to say I've been tempted to give OMV a try
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Yeah, i derp'd. It is indeed OMV.
I chucked it in a VM last night for a quick play and it seems good enough for my needs.
 
Smeg. What do you do if you flash the modified BIOS and then it won't POST? :(

The flash looked like it worked fine - went through the flash procedure and ended at the C prompt.
 
waso_dude said:
Okay so what nas software are people and why over another?

I'm thinking freenas, but is there something better?
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I'm on FreeNAS. Almost moved from it at first back to Ubuntu as I know Ubuntu pretty well, but I stuck with it and really enjoy it now. The simple jails system, layout and config is all really nice.

Had a few problems with it not liking my 4TB external, it actually corrupted my FreeNAS pen drive when I rebooted it while plugged in. The USB sysctl option fixed that though. Quite a strange one.

It's also designed to run on a pen drive rather than disk, so with the N54L you install it on any old pen drive (mine's on a cheap £5 8GB - branded but still nothing special) and stick that in the on-board USB inside the server. Also means you get 100% of your dataset space and no worries about loaders, boot partitions etc. on there.

The backup config feature is also amazing. It takes everything so you can try another OS or reinstall/upgrade FreeNAS at any time without losing or having to reconfigure anything. The backup is 240KB.
 
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