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

Vanilla said:
I'm running an N54L with Windows Server - is there a recommended USB Wi-Fi dongle or pretty much anything works?
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Pretty much any USB wireless adapter works as long as it has drivers, make sure you install the Wireless LAN service feature too as it's not installed by default in Server 2012/R2.
 
Got a gen8 coming tomorrow. Can anyone recommend what os to run? Looking for something free and relatively easy to set up, to be used as a nas, plex, sabnzbd (or similar), couchpotato and sickbeard.

Thanks


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Oh and is this stuff ok?

Hynix 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3-1600MHz ECC Reg CL11 240Pin DIMM 1.35V HMT451R7AFR8A-PB
 
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A[L]C;29793890 said:
Got a gen8 coming tomorrow. Can anyone recommend what os to run? Looking for something free and relatively easy to set up, to be used as a nas, plex, sabnzbd (or similar), couchpotato and sickbeard.

Thanks


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Oh and is this stuff ok?

Hynix 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3-1600MHz ECC Reg CL11 240Pin DIMM 1.35V HMT451R7AFR8A-PB
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Have a look at XPEnology or FreeNAS. Not sure on RAM but I'd be interested in knowing myself for when I get mine up and running.
 
A[L]C;29793890 said:
Oh and is this stuff ok?

Hynix 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3-1600MHz ECC Reg CL11 240Pin DIMM 1.35V HMT451R7AFR8A-PB
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I'm not sure that would work, the DIMM's in my Microservers are all 1.5V

EDIT. Actually one has Kingston 2 x 8GB 1.5V and the official HP ones are 1.35V so ignore me!
 
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A[L]C;29793890 said:
Hynix 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3-1600MHz ECC Reg CL11 240Pin DIMM 1.35V HMT451R7AFR8A-PB
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A quick update... this RAM does not work.

On further look, it is ECC registered/buffered and needs to be unregistered/unbuffered.

Doh, waste of £13 :(
 
So, I've come into possession of four 3TB drives today.

I have been looking into the gen8 for a while and have found one for £94 after cashback.

I'm planning on using it as a media and back-up server. Is there any suggestions what to upgrade and what OS to use? I want to run a plex server on it if that limits my choices.

I imagine that I'll have to upgrade the memory, but what about the CPU? It's got a celeron G1610T in it, would that do the job? Anything else I'd have to add? Also how is the raid 10 performance?
 
RAID 10 performance is pretty decent (details below).

The Celeron is ok for Plex, it had no problems dealing with one stream. It might struggle with more than one stream if it has to transcode it also.
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CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 353.066 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 397.618 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 5.327 MB/s [ 1300.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2.851 MB/s [ 696.0 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 430.966 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 375.174 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.708 MB/s [ 172.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 2.868 MB/s [ 700.2 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [D: 0.0% (0.7/2000.0 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2016/07/20 17:03:49
OS : Windows Server 2012 R2 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)
 
Those numbers look good to me.

Would it be worth upgrading it to a Xeon then? Or perhaps an i3?

I'm planning on serving a few devices.
 
i3 3240 is £30-45 and supported as of the latest bios, if you want more grunt (and undocumented ECC support) then it's a decent shout, it does however obviously lack vt-d but has vt-x. It'll speed up indexing (unraid anyone?) and transcoding for more devices simultaneously to multiple devices should be a lot smoother. If you happen to do a lot of file unpacking and PAR work it should also help.
 
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I originally put in a standard i3 65W cpu. But then I changed it to a i3-2100T which is a 35W 2 core/4thread low power variant as I didn't want to stress the power supply long term.

Both worked fine with the system with no issues, if it comes to it in the future, I may be tempted to put the normal fast 65W I3 back in - but not yet.
 
It's 10w, people are running 69w TDP chips and you're worrying about 55w vs 45w, work out what the PSU actually pulls at the wall and you'll see it's not worth getting excited about.
 
Trying to set my up for the first time.

I've literally un-packed the server and connected to it via ILO, however on POST, whenever I press F5, F9 or F10, nothing happens and it goes to a blank screen.

Can anyone help as I want to get Windows 10 on this before the free upgrade expires tonight!
 
What is exactly the procedure to get the ODD to boot up first, I have a 2.5 drive hooked up with the floppy power cable but will only boot into windows server 2012 when all the other drives are out, its not is AHCI.
 
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Furton said:
Trying to set my up for the first time.

I've literally un-packed the server and connected to it via ILO, however on POST, whenever I press F5, F9 or F10, nothing happens and it goes to a blank screen.

Can anyone help as I want to get Windows 10 on this before the free upgrade expires tonight!
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Have you entered a full ILO licence key? I'm not sure you can use ILO to access the BIOS screen unless you have.
 
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