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

ChrisD. said:
Pizza box and tower servers are not cheap on electricity. A DL380 G7 is going to cost about £30 a month to run. That's the beauty of the microserver.
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Tell me about it, my whole setup runs at around £4 a day. That's with static low performance set.
 
HEADRAT said:
If your client is asking the video to be "transcoded" by the Gen7 then probably yes.

If you are "direct streaming" then probably no (no transcoding, just playback)

As your CPU is 100% then sounds like it's "transcoding"
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All of these files are stored locally though, so shouldn't it just be playback? Also have a 7450 in it.
 
Ah I see, didn't think of that. Surely Kodi can handle x265 and come to think of it - I would be shocked if MPHC cannot. Off to do some digging.
 
Yep, this can be an annoyance, sometimes files that should be able to be played "nativity" (Directstream) by the client just aren't which means Plex will try and transcode (CPU @100%)
 
You can see what the server is doing with the video if you hover your mouse over it, here you can
see it's "Direct Play"

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Here you can see it' "Transcoding" (IOS)

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^ may I ask why? Briefly used Plex but can't remember much, just happened to go with XBMC/Kodi as my former housemate got me into it.
 
doodah said:
^ may I ask why? Briefly used Plex but can't remember much, just happened to go with XBMC/Kodi as my former housemate got me into it.
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I just find it more polished and better to use overall. Everything is in sync no matter where I watch something, the out of the box interface versus Kodi (at the time, not sure what Kodi looks like now) was nicer etc. I now share my library with some friends, it's all very easy to set up and use. It also installs on nearly everything, phones, TV's, PC's, smart boxes etc.
 
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I've only ever used Plex and it does everything I want, also all my TVs in the house are Samsung Smart TVs as at the time of buying them they were the only TVs that had a Plex Client.
 
Cashback is back up to £50 on the base Microserver (873830-421) for March. Had been looking at a Dell T30 or T130 but decided I couldn't justify the extra cost. The saving over the Dell pays for a couple of 500GB SSDs for the boot array.
 
#Chri5# said:
Cashback is back up to £50 on the base Microserver (873830-421) for March. Had been looking at a Dell T30 or T130 but decided I couldn't justify the extra cost. The saving over the Dell pays for a couple of 500GB SSDs for the boot array.
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but the very same server on release was like 50% cheaper even without cashback :/
 
#Chri5# said:
Cashback is back up to £50 on the base Microserver (873830-421) for March. Had been looking at a Dell T30 or T130 but decided I couldn't justify the extra cost. The saving over the Dell pays for a couple of 500GB SSDs for the boot array.
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I can't decide whether to buy a Gen 10 HP Microserver or Synology 918+. With cashback now back on for the 873830-421, what would you recommend? Whichever I go for, it will only be used to stream movies etc. Is the 873830-421 more powerful than the sinology?

Many thanks

Phil
 
The Opteron™ X3216 in the Gen10 has a passmark of 2345 and a single core score of 1393.
The Celeron J3455 in the DS918+ has a passmark of 2139 and a single core score of 780.
So the Gen10 is ahead and half the price.
 
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