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

ANDARIAL said:
Mine worked first time
Switch off N54L,plug sata end into hdd
attach power to hdd(am using a external molex type psu)
attach esata end to N54L
restart N54L
Works every time for me

IS your hdd working ok?can you feel it spin up?have you formatted or installed in administrative tasks-storage?
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Yea brand new drive that works with my external caddy.

I have a molex -> 2x sata power for the hdd.
 
I use the K400 with my HTPC, it's ideal :)

Had my friend over today to help set up my N54L with Server 2012, as I know naff all about it all! He's set up a VPN and remote access for me :)

Currently running deduplication over my drives, started manually in powershell. Server stuff really is a whole new world!
 
james.miller said:
i use plex to send video to an android media player. no transcoding is required. Not quite as successful with my GS4 though. its not true that plex requires transcoding, its down to the hardware at the other end.
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+1

I was really confused the other night why my UMS stream was running so smoothly from my server to my PS3 - 5% CPU usage, and 10Mb/s network usage on a full HD bluray rip. I never realised that the PS3 natively supports h264, so no transcoding required, just remuxing. Result!
 
So I'm currently running WHS 2011 on a SSD, with 3 x 3TB WD Reds and DrivePool to duplicate files to protect against drive failure. For future (efficient) expansion, I'm thinking of switching to software RAID 5 for the internal drives (up to 6), with an external 5 bay enclosure - using DrivePool to create one seamless storage.

Machine is mainly used as an XBMC server streaming to XBMC clients.

Anyone see any issues with this approach?
 
Hey folks,

I posted a few weeks back but finally have some free time to refresh my HTPC. As before I currently run a N40L with 8gb ram and a AMD 6450. It's got 2x3tb and a 2tb along with the original hdd for the OS which is WHS2011.

It's used as a Media Server/HTPC with a little storage set a side for important docs. The first decision is whether to stick to the N40L or upgrade to the newer N54L. Is there any major benefit to this?

I'm sick of WHS so will def be changing this, probably to Win7 as I have a spare key. Will win7 work ok? Is it simple enough getting drivers for it? WHS is awful!

I'm also starting to run out of space as well so I'm thinking of replacing all of the HDD with WD Red 4tb, can the N40L take 4tb or is the max 3?

Sorry for all the questions!
 
CaNsA said:
Just placed my order for a 40gb Intel SSD for £20, it will do as a decent o/s drive.

Can't link to it though.
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Just found it :) Write speed isn't great on them though? Suppose read isn't too bad.

Edit - Can you boot off the eSATA port? Can't recall?
 
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Never mind, found it. Intel 320. So tempting... even though I have literally no use for it...
 
james.miller said:
How fast do you need to write to an o/s drive on a server? It'll be more than fine:)
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Heh the write benchmark is hilariously low though! 45MB/s!!

Agree fully that this is a dead-cheap, quick (enough), cool (as in temperatures), low-power, silent solution for an OS drive.
 
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