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

$anch3z said:
I got rid of my gen 8 a while back, replaced it with a little beelink mini pc and a HDD dock. My gen 8 ran a xeon and 16gb of ram but was really showing its age, especially running vm's
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Yeah, same reason mine went, I have a friend running my old Gen 7 N40L and another running an 8Gb Gen 8, there's plenty of life left in them depending on usage but for me running VM's was killing it, I waited for ages for HP to do something worthy of replacing the Gen 8 but it never came so I did a Frankenbuild into a Node 804, then shrank that into a 304, now it'll be going into an NR200 when I get home...
 
Mel_P said:
Did you just run the Microsoft software to convert it? Are all drivers OK - including the Matrox sound card?
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I created Win11 USB media with Rufus and installed. This has configuration options to help on older platforms. I don't have the system anymore as moved to a more modern platform with more RAM (Dell 3630 with Truenas Scale).
 
Trig said:
Yeah, same reason mine went, I have a friend running my old Gen 7 N40L and another running an 8Gb Gen 8, there's plenty of life left in them depending on usage but for me running VM's was killing it, I waited for ages for HP to do something worthy of replacing the Gen 8 but it never came so I did a Frankenbuild into a Node 804, then shrank that into a 304, now it'll be going into an NR200 when I get home...
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The small footprint of the beelink make it perfect for my almost silent lab (5800U with 32gb ram, 1tb m2 and added a 2tb ssd) It has ran everything I have thrown at it so far, my only niggle is the virtual nic's are a little funky but nothing that cannot be fixed with a workaround.
 
GSXRMovistar said:
Same here with an N54L, been wanting to replace it for years but nothing cost effective and the old thing just keeps on ticking.
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Ditto, I ended up building an i5 10400-based machine as a replacement, as there were no suitable off-the-shelf alternatives. My N54L is now purely for backups and stays powered off most of the time.
 
I have got a N40L in the attic. One day I'll get around to doing something with that. As it is, it has remained as a sort of doner system for the N54L, if ever needed. I'm reminded of the old Ariston commercials.......


.....it just keeps on going.........

I did recently swap out a couple of drives for two shucked recertified WD's. In fact, I have just bought 2 x 16TB WD's, for shucking at some point.
 
I have two Gen8 Microservers running TrueNAS Scale. One is a backup server that's only powered on for replicating data from the main server.

The main server has a couple of small Docker containers running in a Debian VM.

I also have an N54L running Debian which holds data that isn't often accessed and so is rarely powered on.
 
Uhtred said:
Well, my n40l died today. I had been using it as a zfs replication target but today I noticed it had powered down. I tried to power it up and it went pop with magic smoke. It didn’t go quietly, taking out the ring rcbo and the plug fuse :cry:

I know it’s just the psu but I’m not going to replace it, so off to the dump it goes to be replaced with a raspberry pi

edit - it was 11 years and 2 months old and was in 24/7 service for a large chunk of that
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Some people are still after parts for the microserver so dont just bin it.
 
I still have N36l, N40L and Gen 8.

All of them have been great.

I find the Gen 8 is still not a bad machine but to upgrade any parts is so expensive & HP crippled it with too many limitations which is a shame.

I am looking at replacing mine because of started having issues with iLo and both fans are making loud noise.

Which beelink mini pc and a HDD dock are most people using?
 
edGfaCTor said:
I am looking at replacing mine because of started having issues with iLo and both fans are making loud noise.
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Are the iLO issues due to NAND failure? Mine developed that failure a few years ago but I found it hasn't affected anything I've used the server for. iLO web UI is a little slow to load, and Intelligent Provisioning doesn't work, but I very rarely used that and you can boot into it from an ISO. Thankfully the fans on mine are still OK.
 
lcg said:
Are the iLO issues due to NAND failure? Mine developed that failure a few years ago but I found it hasn't affected anything I've used the server for. iLO web UI is a little slow to load, and Intelligent Provisioning doesn't work, but I very rarely used that and you can boot into it from an ISO. Thankfully the fans on mine are still OK.
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Not sure if it's nand failure I know it's a very common issue with these HP models.

Intelligent Provisioning appears to work.

Only error I notice is when it boots it comes up with loading settings from backup.
 
Anyone on here with a Gen7 that wants any of the drive bay things for the Gen7?

Just cleared the garage out and found 4 of them.

Also got a bag full of 8Gb sticks that'll run in the Gen7 and 8...
 
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