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

GSXRMovistar said:
Gen8's are 10 years old though, if I'm going to the hassle of replacing my trusty Gen7 then I should ideally plan for it to have some lifespan.
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You can pick up a base spec gen 8 quite cheaply and put in a E3-1265L V2. Size, remote management, versatility, performance all seem good. I've looked a building a replacement for mine but the replacement cost seems mad. I guess I could save a bit of energy (45W vs 10W say) but the savings in energy would take some time to compensate for the hardware costs.
 
What's the real world power consumption on one of these chaps?

I'm running an old Dell Optiplex for PLEX purposes mainly. I'm drawing 220w idle and 340w under load. On my current energy rate that's about 15p a day so 5 quid a month. I guess I'm not going to getting much cheaper? :D
 
Cheers chaps. So some gains to be had but marginal payback. I'll keep it mind as my use case evolves - I can probably get what I paid for the Dell back and then some.
 
That is super low! Maybe I should recover my old Xeon E3-1230 from my mum's attic...

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dlockers said:
What's the real world power consumption on one of these chaps?

I'm running an old Dell Optiplex for PLEX purposes mainly. I'm drawing 220w idle and 340w under load. On my current energy rate that's about 15p a day so 5 quid a month. I guess I'm not going to getting much cheaper? :D
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How low is your energy rate? My 18W Home Assistant server calculated out to about £3.50/month at 40p/unit when I built it last year. Your 10x as hungry server surely must cost more?

Edit: 220W x 24 hours = 5.28 units/day so 158.4kWh/month.
 
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dlockers said:
I'm an idiot. It's 22w not 220w. Lol!
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That's the right way to be wrong! I thought you were about to say whoops, it's £50/month :D

22W is plenty low enough, very much diminishing returns trying to squeeze downwards from there. Even if you go Raspberry Pi and get it down to 5W, while it looks like a 75% reduction, it's actually just "Three or four quid".

Until you start adding up your various ~15-20W appliances, say router, WiFi access point, file/proxy server, Home Assistant, I'd say it's good as it is.
 
LuckyBenski said:
That's the right way to be wrong! I thought you were about to say whoops, it's £50/month :D

22W is plenty low enough, very much diminishing returns trying to squeeze downwards from there. Even if you go Raspberry Pi and get it down to 5W, while it looks like a 75% reduction, it's actually just "Three or four quid".

Until you start adding up your various ~15-20W appliances, say router, WiFi access point, file/proxy server, Home Assistant, I'd say it's good as it is.
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Yeah agreed - maybe I'll consolidate HomeAssistant onto it and retire the Pi, but it'd need to at least pay me a pint within a year for it to be worth it :D
 
Is anyone running Home Assistant in Unraid on gen 8 microserver?

I'm deciding whether to migrate my HA from a pi3b+ into Unraid docker
And also move pihole to an Unraid docker.

Performance and practicality wise can anyone suggest if this is a good move?
I've upgraded the ram to max of 16gb but have the standard G1610T CPU.
I have an SSD cache pool.
 
I've got an old N54L microserver that I'd like to bring back to use and am looking for recommendations for an operating system. It will purely be used as a pretty dumb NAS - at the moment I have a lot of data drives sitting in a fairly high power pc that runs a lot of hours as we use plex for watching stuff, my aim is to have these drives on the microserver and run this off my solar setup. I don't need raid etc as back-up any important stuff.

It hasn't been used for many years but I used to run windows home server and then a newer version of windows.

I tried this week to put openmediavault on it and although installed fine and got running with test shares to windows and ios, it through up quite a few errors when doing stuff and my linux type knowledge isn't up to sorting these out.

Therefore wonder if I should go back to a windows os as understand this - has anyone got say windows 11 running on it - or any other more NASy os's people would recommend ?
 
I went the simple route of installing windows 10 as the key was like £5, set up file shares and it just sits in my loft offering files to whoever wants them.

I also have another I installed xPenology on which I use as a NAS with some old drives as an experiment and six years later it still just chugs away.
 
Tim_UK said:
I've got an old N54L microserver that I'd like to bring back to use and am looking for recommendations for an operating system. It will purely be used as a pretty dumb NAS - at the moment I have a lot of data drives sitting in a fairly high power pc that runs a lot of hours as we use plex for watching stuff, my aim is to have these drives on the microserver and run this off my solar setup. I don't need raid etc as back-up any important stuff.

It hasn't been used for many years but I used to run windows home server and then a newer version of windows.

I tried this week to put openmediavault on it and although installed fine and got running with test shares to windows and ios, it through up quite a few errors when doing stuff and my linux type knowledge isn't up to sorting these out.

Therefore wonder if I should go back to a windows os as understand this - has anyone got say windows 11 running on it - or any other more NASy os's people would recommend ?
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I've got a gen8 which runs on Ubuntu as a Plex server and fileshare device.

Super-stable, doesn't need much attention and I even have a chron job doing scheduled shutdown/startup so it's only running at times we'll actually be using it.
 
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