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

It'll support 6 drives if you include the eSATA port. Many people have used a short eSATA to SATA cable looped back inside the case.

The eSATA port, like the ODD port, won't run at it's best unless you flash the modified firmware.
 
bremen1874 said:
It'll support 6 drives if you include the eSATA port. Many people have used a short eSATA to SATA cable looped back inside the case.

The eSATA port, like the ODD port, won't run at it's best unless you flash the modified firmware.
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cheers just wanted to make sure :D

already flashed modded bios fw.
 
Just looking at a Gen8 and it has

2x USB 3.0 Port and 4x USB 2.0 Port

Is this standard?

Also comes with win 2008 server
 
Been offered a few P400 controllers, but not sure what I can do with them in my G7 or 8.

Do they replace the controller for the four main drives, or would I be able to add more in the ODD bay via power splitters?

EDIT:

From my understanding, you use the P400 and a breakoutcable to a blackplate attached to something like this fitted in the ODD bay.

Is that the right?

Not really used SAS before..


Thanks.
 
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Just set up an N54L with XPenology, have filled the four bays and have modded the Bios. I know I can easily mount a 5th drive in the top (already have the sata and power cables required), but have struggled to find a way to get 2x3.5" drives in the top. Again cabling not an issue, the power adapter is there I would just need to buy an esata to sata cable, but something to actually mount them with is an issue.

Does anybody know of a way or is it a cable tie and rubber band rigging jobbie?
 
Just ordered a 500GB SSD, 3TB WD Red, 16Gb of ECC RAM and a molex to Sata power + splitter.

Played around with a Xenology VM on my W8.1 home machine and managed to get NFS shares working very well to a Raspberry Pi, and also worked out how remotely connect to the iLO on the microserver outside of my home network, and have been able to use the RDS app on android to connect to via my home PC remotely too, I think I understand port forwarding now! :p:D

This is all new to me, should be good to install server 2012 R2 on the SDD, with plenty of room for a few VM's, and then be able to connect via RDS from my work PC if I need to do any studying in my lunch hour.

Just a shame the stock CPU doesn't support VT-d, I want to passthrough the HDD for Xpenology rather than creating a VHD, as I'll only have to move everything over when I upgrade to a Xeon (probably a 1230 v2).
 
Have an N54L which i have had for over a year. Im running windows 7 64bit. Got 3x 2tb WD green and 3tb wd green plus i have attached via usb 3 a icy box JBOD enclosure which house 2x 3tb seagate drives (use them as back up) plus i have extra external hdds also for back up.

Its a great small machine and itis doingvthe job perfectly for me
 
pepp77 said:
Just set up an N54L with XPenology, have filled the four bays and have modded the Bios. I know I can easily mount a 5th drive in the top (already have the sata and power cables required), but have struggled to find a way to get 2x3.5" drives in the top. Again cabling not an issue, the power adapter is there I would just need to buy an esata to sata cable, but something to actually mount them with is an issue.

Does anybody know of a way or is it a cable tie and rubber band rigging jobbie?
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I know with the ICY dock duoswap you can get a 3.5 and a 2.5 in the ODD. This is probably the road I am going down with mine. Don't think you can get two 3.5s in a normal solution. Although you can get like 6 2.5" in the odd slot with a controller card.
 
So... the Molex splitter to Sata power I ordered is completely wrong... :( it's completely different to the picture on the rainforest, should have been a female molex to male molex (or vice versa) and female Sata power, when it's actually a male Sata power to 2x male molexes. Doh!

The £1 floppy to sata power is a no go too, nowhere close has any of them.

Given that for the time being I'm only gonna be useing 3 drives (1x SSD and 2x 3.5" drives) I might just slot the SSD into bay 1 without an adaptor, if I set the B120i to Raid mode and set each drive as a single drive RAID0 array, can the SSD be moved to the ODD SATA port while keeping the array/data intact?

The other option is to take the power SATA connector from one of the backplane ports up to the ODD bay and use the ODD sata data port, need to check if these are male or female SATA power connectors though.
 
As these can be bought new for so little does that mean there isn't really a market for the 2nd hand N30L variant? I'm just on with replacing my 2 old Microservers with a R510 and wondering if its even worth trying to sell them in the MM?
 
Wow, thats pretty good, only paid £100 iirc. Wonder why I thought it was N30, but you're quite right they are N36.
 
I sent back my forms on 5th January but only received the cashback about 1-2 weeks ago (I would need to check my current account to be more precise). The actual confirmation of cashback was received within days, but took the full 45 days to be received.
 
Hmmmmmmm

Anybody else who did the PSU fan mod on the G7 notice it start to get noisier over time? Think I've had it a couple of years (though not on 24/7)... seems to have a slightly more audible kind of "grind" noise developing... Surely the fan isn't wearing out already?
 
Anyone had issues with the B120i smart array firmware/drivers not being updated when installing 2012 R2 via intelligent provisioning?

Attempted a couple of times last night and it got to the stage of starting the windows install (after the command line scripts run) and displays an error "windows cannot find the licence terms, check the installation source is correct"

In the iLO, there's no firmware present for the smart array.
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And under "Storage":
No Smart Array Controller found.
HP Smart Array Controller or HP Dynamic Smart Array RAID Controller is required to display drive array information.

I set up the drives in single drive RAID0 arrays with no issues, I'll try to install 2012 R2 normally with drivers for the B120i on a USB disk, when doing this it couldn't detect the RAID arrays (this is normal from what I've read).
 
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