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

MagicBoy · 8 Feb 2017 at 19:47

The N36L/N40L/N54L doesn't support registered/buffered RAM. I used Kingston ValueRAM ECC unbuffered.

ECC is different to parity. ECC is Error Checking and Correction, Parity to use the same parlance is just Error Checking.

PiKe · 9 Feb 2017 at 21:01

Are the E3-1230v2's still available?

Trig · 9 Feb 2017 at 22:47

Crop up on Chinese eBay from time to time, usually out of old systems...

gitbags · 24 Feb 2017 at 12:51

Is anyone running a n40l with kingston kvr1333d3n9/4g? Its listed as working in the n40l wika, But I can't get mine to boot with it.

neil_g · 25 Feb 2017 at 14:50

gitbags said:
Is anyone running a n40l with kingston kvr1333d3n9/4g? Its listed as working in the n40l wika, But I can't get mine to boot with it.

yup. 2x 4gb of that in one of mine.

tried a memtest?

gitbags · 25 Feb 2017 at 15:45

I've got nothing to test it in. A colleague of mine tested it in his home PC and reckons its fine, but my n40l won't even post with it. There aren't any bios changes I should be making are there?

neil_g · 25 Feb 2017 at 15:51

ah right. no bios changes needed that i remember.

Pickers · 4 Mar 2017 at 08:44

Hi All,
I have a Gen 8 currently running baremetal XPENOLOGY DSM 5.2-5644 Update 3
I have done a few updates in the past but always it seems in different ways and I forget how it worked!
Whats the best way to update to the 5.2-5967.1 - which I believe is the latest stable?

Deleted member 138126 · 4 Mar 2017 at 09:25

If you are comfortable with ESXi, I'd recommend booting off ESXi (USB key plugged into the motherboard), then create a VM with the hard drives passed through as RDMs (Raw Device Mappings). That way you can use the newer XPEnology boot loader that supports DSM 6, and you no longer have that hardware driver dependency.

Pickers · 4 Mar 2017 at 20:48

I've never done anything other than bare metal xpenology...
Put simply, I'd need step by step instructions

Mr-White · 4 Mar 2017 at 22:22

When is the Gen8 getting replaced ?

quickshot89 · 5 Mar 2017 at 17:24

Mr-White said:
When is the Gen8 getting replaced ?

I've heard some snippets about Gen10 this year, once the HPE/CSC Spin Merge happens and the dust has settled for the left over HPE side to see where the market is

Trig · 5 Mar 2017 at 19:29

Pretty sure HP don't give a crap about the home server market anymore

Semple · 6 Mar 2017 at 15:07

Mr-White said:
When is the Gen8 getting replaced ?

You'll need to wait for HPE Discover

Semple · 6 Mar 2017 at 15:07

quickshot89 said:
I've heard some snippets about Gen10 this year, once the HPE/CSC Spin Merge happens and the dust has settled for the left over HPE side to see where the market is

EDIT: Double Post

Trig · 6 Mar 2017 at 15:14

If only, I dont think they are interested in the "Home Server" area anymore, cant imagine it brought them a lot of income..

benjo · 8 Mar 2017 at 12:22

At the moment I'm running my Gen8 in AHCI mode with an SSD in bay 1 (running whs), and 2x4TB WD drives in bay 2 and 3.

I'm planning on changing to ubuntu server and doing a mdadm RAID1 setup with the two storage drives - is there any issue with the drives being split across sata3 6gb/s and 3gb/s? Is it worth picking up a different sas card?

Thanks!

Trig · 8 Mar 2017 at 13:26

I didnt have any issues when I split my drivers over the ports, i didnt do it for long though before I went down the P222 route..

Adam · 8 Mar 2017 at 14:06

What's the advantage of having 2 NIC's on the Gen8? Would I see any benefit in doing so if I was just using it via Synology/Xpenology?

Trig · 8 Mar 2017 at 18:06

I used one for my VM's and one for the LAN.

In my new server I have 4, depends on what usage you have really..

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