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

andy_mk3 said:
My server runs in a small cupboard under the stairs, very little airflow. But the CPU temperature over the last 8 days has ranged from 30-68°C which seems pretty good. Only hit the higher temps when I was moving 2TB of data while transcoding 1080p and running deduplication! So not bad for a passively cooled CPU.
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This is good to hear - in my new house my server has been migrated to a cupboard by the front door which also houses the boiler and I was a bit worried about airflow and temps in there... Will have to check the CPU but the drives so far haven't gone above about 30°C the whole time so far which is fine I think
 
uncle_rufus said:
This is good to hear - in my new house my server has been migrated to a cupboard by the front door which also houses the boiler and I was a bit worried about airflow and temps in there... Will have to check the CPU but the drives so far haven't gone above about 30°C the whole time so far which is fine I think
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Yeah that's good. My cupboard also has an Asus RT-N56U router in there which kicks out some heat, plus the BT openreach modem so it does get toasty in there!

As you can see the temps on my drives and min/max on the CPU, all look good. The 'C' drive is a bit warmer, but that's fairly old 160GB Sata drive, I will eventually SSD it :)

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has anyone installed a 5 1/2" enclosure for 2.5" drives? I have a few 15k SAS disks available to me, I was thinking of getting an enclosure and hooking them up to either the on-board raid or my P410. Can't seem to find a decent enclosure that's pretty cheap, doesn't need to look nice, just needs to hold the disks!

Not sure what cable i'd be after either... mini SAS to SAS & power I suppose?
 
So what should I be looking at as a primary drive for one of these? I assume somthing like a 250Gb WD but not sure on black, green etc. Since it's 'always on' does that mean a Red WD would be more suited are as these purely for data drives?

Is there also any reason to mount the primary drive in the optical bay if I only plan on x2 data drives?
 
It depends on what o/s you are going to be using.

Xpenology gets spread across all drives, so no need for a dedicated o/s drive.
WHS - a 250gb RED will do
Openmediavault - a 40gb ssd will do the trick.

It is worth mounting the o/s drive in the 5th bay because you will add more storage.
Not be cause you need the storage, but because you will want to be using all the bays.
:D
 
CaNsA said:
It depends on what o/s you are going to be using.

Xpenology gets spread across all drives, so no need for a dedicated o/s drive.
WHS - a 250gb RED will do
Openmediavault - a 40gb ssd will do the trick.

It is worth mounting the o/s drive in the 5th bay because you will add more storage.
Not be cause you need the storage, but because you will want to be using all the bays.
:D
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Most likely 2012 Essentials, though I'm thinking a larger drive in case I go down the esx route in future may be wise.

lol yeah you may be right. I expect those empty drives may look a little sad.
 
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Maybe worthy of a new thread but just a quick question guys,
Guys my mate has an iOmega iConnect with an external HDD attached to it as his "server" and then has it mapped as a drive, it doesn't work too bad but its really slow to stream media. Is this his network? or his hardware that he is using?

He assumed it was always like that until he saw my Microserver so now he is considering replacing his current setup.

Also, I am thinking of moving to XPEnology on my Microserver and then running plex. Do i just download the synology installer off the website and install it and set it up?
 
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Biz.Kid09 said:
Maybe worthy of a new thread but just a quick question guys,
Guys my mate has an iOmega iConnect with an external HDD attached to it as his "server" and then has it mapped as a drive, it doesn't work too bad but its really slow to stream media. Is this his network? or his hardware that he is using?

He assumed it was always like that until he saw my Microserver so now he is considering replacing his current setup.

Also, I am thinking of moving to XPEnology on my Microserver and then running plex. Do i just download the synology installer off the website and install it and set it up?
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How is the drive connected?

AFAIK, if you move to xpenology you have to pull all the data off your drive before you isntall as it will re-partition and re-format your current drives.
Xpenology installs its-self across all drives.
 
CaNsA said:
How is the drive connected?

AFAIK, if you move to xpenology you have to pull all the data off your drive before you isntall as it will re-partition and re-format your current drives.
Xpenology installs its-self across all drives.
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USB, that is the only way he can connect it to his iConnect.

Yeah thats fine, I was just wondering if those were the steps?

Install XPEnology onto MicroServer
Install Synology installer for Plex.
Add folders

Stream on devices?
 
Hi,

What are the chances of running one of these with full disk encryption (usually recommended powerful processor + AES-NI?) + a couple of KVM virtual machines - nothing to heavy? Is anyone using KVM/debian on these?

I have a noisy G6 tower ATM but looking to replace.

Thanks,
 
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