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

I managed to snag an E3-1265LV2 at a good price and have just dropped it in. I am hoping I can get away with the stock cooling as it is only a 10W TDP increase over the Celeron.

Now I just need to strip the memory and disk from my old N54L.
 
My current server (an old borrowed shuttle pc just to see if I needed a server) has given up the ghost, so I'm on the hunt for a replacement!

I'm debating whether to order a Gen8 this evening or wait until next month to see if the price further improves. N54l's are going for similar price 2nd hand as a G1610t is new!

I suspect I'll cave and order this evening!
 
You need to have it delivered and invoiced before the end of April (for the current offer) so don't hang about too long. Who knows what next month offer will be. Last time around with the N54Ls they would often have a month or two off before the offer returned. Cash back did get up to £100 on those, but then I suspect it was a much cheaper server to make.
 
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IT Troll said:
I managed to snag an E3-1265LV2 at a good price and have just dropped it in. I am hoping I can get away with the stock cooling as it is only a 10W TDP increase over the Celeron.

Now I just need to strip the memory and disk from my old N54L.
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Out of curiosity how much?
And what are the temps like now please?
 
IT Troll said:
You need to have it delivered and invoiced before the end of April (for the current offer) so don't hang about too long. Who knows what next month offer will be. Last time around with the N54Ls they would often have a month or two off before the offer returned. Cash back did get up to £100 on those, but then I suspect it was a much cheaper server to make.
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Tonight it is then! Even if the cashback does increase, I can'tt really grumble at the price they are!
 
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Out of curiosity how much?
And what are the temps like now please?
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I got lucky on an auction site. £173 delivered. Turns out it was a brand new customer return. Unused with almost 3-years warranty remaining. :D

I don't have an O/S yet and so can't stress the CPU. It is sat at 40 in ILO. I need to pull the memory from my live N54L before I can install ESXi. Probably a weekend job.
 
Got mine yesterday and i've got 2x 3TB WD Red drives. going to RAID 1 them and put windows 7 64 bit on. 1st attempt at using NAS/Server at home. Planning to use it to stream music and my ripped DVD collection and backing up files from my pc. Anything people recommend i do?
 
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Got mine yesterday and i've got 2x 3TB WD Red drives. going to RAID 1 them and put windows 7 64 bit on. 1st attempt at using NAS/Server at home. Planning to use it to stream music and my ripped DVD collection and backing up files from my pc. Anything people recommend i do?
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Are you having a separate OS drive or using the RAID?
 
Trying to use the RAID with 2 logical drives, one for booting and another for storage. Not having much luck though. May have to go down the vmware route if i keep struggling. Don't know linux enough to attempt that.
 
So, I would like to have windows 7 on the server. It currently have 2x WD Red 3TB. I would like raid 1 so i wouldn't need to re rip my music and dvds if a disk dies. How should i go about setting it up :)
 
I would recommend getting 2 more WD Red 3TB now + 1x small-ish capacity 2.5" drive for the operating system (SSD or spinning HDD doesn't really matter).

Keep the operating system separate from your primary file storage.

And setup the 4x 3TB WD Reds in a Raid-5 configuration.

That way you have redundancy for a single drive failure at a time (it's unlikely you will have a second fail in the time it takes to replace the 1 drive)... and you don't lose the capacity of 2 drives.

If you were to setup 2 drives in raid-1 now & then buy another 2 drives at a later date and also set them up as raid-1, you would only have 6TB usable... whereas with raid-5 you will have 9TB usable space & still redundancy.

It would be a pain to reconfigure that raid-1 array as a raid-5 array... you would need an extra external drive to store your data while you re-configure the arrays.
 
Did some looking into this but the it can only do RAID 0, 1 and 10. I'd have to buy a separate raid controller at £200+ to get RAID 5. Got it running at the moment in RAID 1 with the OS in a 100gb partition. If I use it loads will buy 2x 6tb RAID 1 them most the os to a 2.5" and use stable bit drive pool to merge the storage disks.
 
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I have Raid5 on my Gen8 got a second hand P410 (1GB with Battery) from the bay for £45, very solid and does the job great, there are loads of them around as well so finding one should be really easy. It also means I can run my SSD from the second SAS port on the raid controller.
 
I wasn't talking about using the hardware raid controller to do it... setting up each drive as a single-drive raid-0 array in that B120i controller is the same as using JBOD on a normal controller.

Then use the operating system to configure software raid.

That is what synologys do, for example... you can also do it with windows.

Benefit of software raid also, is that if you have a severe hardware failure, you can put the drives into another system and it's much easier to re-sync the raid array.
 
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