That would depend upon what other upgrades it has had. For me, the key parts of the Gen 8 really are the ILO and the RAID chassis all in that small quiet frame.
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That would depend upon what other upgrades it has had. For me, the key parts of the Gen 8 really are the ILO and the RAID chassis all in that small quiet frame.
Soldato
The limiting factor for me was the 16Gb RAM with the Gen8, since we didnt get a Gen9 and HPE disappointed with the Gen10 I built my own box...
Finally got RAID 10 configured this weekend (let's leave the raid vs storage spaces vs drivepool for another time).
Since RAID only accounts for redundancy, what are people using for actual backups? I'm not sure if my 20mb upload speed is sufficient enough for cloud based.
Since RAID only accounts for redundancy, what are people using for actual backups? I'm not sure if my 20mb upload speed is sufficient enough for cloud based.
Does anyone run Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS on a gen8 with the stock GPU and manage to get a resolution above 1024x768?
Going to be in a position, shortly, where I will be able to actually have my server plugged into a monitor and it'd be good for it to actually be able to output a res the monitor supports (ideally 1920x1080).
Alternatively, any advice on a low power/cost GFX card which will fit in the box and do what I want?
Going to be in a position, shortly, where I will be able to actually have my server plugged into a monitor and it'd be good for it to actually be able to output a res the monitor supports (ideally 1920x1080).
Alternatively, any advice on a low power/cost GFX card which will fit in the box and do what I want?
Soldato
Yes, during boot it changes res many times inc 1024*768 and 1680*1050 but pretty sure mine is 1080P now... But I've leant my box out with Ubuntu on for a couple weeks...
So it'll self configure to the resolutions available to it?
Fingers crossed it's that easy!
Will report back once set up in the next week or two
Soldato
Well been upgrading my Gen8s as they had all been running the stock celeron CPUs. Now two of them are running 1260L processors and two with 1220L processors. Slight improvement.
Caporegime
Will they bring out a G11?
Given they skipped G9, who knows. G10 gets some deserved hate vs G8, i'd like to think HP listens.
Caporegime
Ryzen based would be nice.
Any cheap half height card will do the job , I went out and paid about £55 for a AMD r3 230 ... didnt really use it, and might bring it all back into service as a media box running windows/plex. Sitting idle at the moment , wondering whether this box is quieter or louder than old PC running i5-2500k.
yes a 2200g or 2400g based microserver sounds great, maybe ven a 200Ge.
BTW where can you get the screws for the disk caddys ??
yes a 2200g or 2400g based microserver sounds great, maybe ven a 200Ge.
BTW where can you get the screws for the disk caddys ??
If we're talking home usage, then it's easy to build an ITX based Ryzen system with a similar case.
Plex with an AMD GPU is awful for GPU transcoding, you either want an intel iGPU or Nvidia GPU, but it’s 2 concurrent streams on the consumer grade Nvidia stuff (except modified drivers in Ubuntu).
Caporegime
Easy maybe, but value for money it's hard to beat the Microservers even without the rebate.
What rebate is that, then?
Caporegime
https://www.uk.insight.com/content/...Buy/shops/hpe/01-UK-Nov2018-Tower_Servers.pdf
Used to be able to get cashback with just the hardware only but you need to buy it with an ROK license now.
Used to be able to get cashback with just the hardware only but you need to buy it with an ROK license now.
i WASNT talking or including transcoding abilitys. A 2200g in itx case with four bays would be very nice, but , would it beat the microserver (after rebate, when it was available , approx £110 ) it would cost at least double that , and whwn you throw in a good quality gold sfx and noctua fans , more like three times.
BTW my old pC is running great , very quiet bit bulky but whateva ...
BTW my old pC is running great , very quiet bit bulky but whateva ...
Soldato
have the gen8, whats the best value hdmi graphics card for it, only going to be using it for zwift as the microservers already there i might just use that
Soldato
Today I updated my CPU to an i3 3240 (updated bios first to make sure it worked). Really easy £20 upgrade!
I had no end of trouble updating ILO and getting Intelligent Provisioning to work.
Also did not help that I didn't seat the hard drive SATA cables properly....oops!
I had no end of trouble updating ILO and getting Intelligent Provisioning to work.
Also did not help that I didn't seat the hard drive SATA cables properly....oops!
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