Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD
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Soldato
Spinners will generate more heat and noise/vibration, that case looks a bit sealed to be honest.
Also 2.5" spinners are poor value although good power consumption.
Also 2.5" spinners are poor value although good power consumption.
Don
In many ways it'd be a downgrade.
Don
Unless you specifically seek out ex enterprise near line SATA 2.5" then they'll also be incredibly flaky in raid arrays
Still pondering an upgrade from the N40L.
I was reading about the Gen8, with an upgraded CPU.
This compares the CPUs of the N40L, Gen8 Vanilla and Gen8 upgraded. But then the power consumption is higher, or would it be similar at idle? - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...-1265L-V2-vs-AMD-Turion-II-Neo-N40L-Dual-Core
I was reading about the Gen8, with an upgraded CPU.
This compares the CPUs of the N40L, Gen8 Vanilla and Gen8 upgraded. But then the power consumption is higher, or would it be similar at idle? - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...-1265L-V2-vs-AMD-Turion-II-Neo-N40L-Dual-Core
Don
You'd think power consumption would be higher, but because faster chips get work done quicker, they return to idle state much sooner. It's also worth bearing in mind that power saving tech is lot worse on older chips (i.e. they don't respond as quickly)
Modern N100 and similar are absolute beasts however in terms of power usage vs performance.
Wowzers, yeah the N100 looks like the way to go, I'm guessing a DIY build for a NAS is going to cost a bit more though.
I think somebody mentioned this a few pages back. A N100 in a Proliant case - https://hackaday.io/project/194917-drive-bay-n100-mini-pc-hp-microserver-upgrade
I think somebody mentioned this a few pages back. A N100 in a Proliant case - https://hackaday.io/project/194917-drive-bay-n100-mini-pc-hp-microserver-upgrade
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Soldato
Probably better off at least checking servethehome for stuff like that, bit more their thing.
If you can limit yourself to a few drives and the very limited PCIe lanes, then the N100 is great, once you start looking to expand, it becomes a proverbial albatros.
I have N36L/N40L/N54L still fully working because I couldn't find anyone to buy them even offered them loaded out with HDD & SAS cards still no offers.
All of them served me very well for years and how HP was able to offer such great cashback deals is incredible.
I did pick up a Gen 8 which was so different to the previous one & I wasn't a fan of the direction they had gone in with the iLo etc (The thing is so loud as well)
ive moved to a full tower case server now. i did like the compact size of the HP though. its just sitting in the back of my cupboard.
seems like its just going to stay that way now
Soldato
I built a system in an NR200, so not small compared to the microservers, but certainly small enough to be easily tucked out of the way.
AMD Ryzen 5700G
64GB RAM
250gb NVME drive (OS)
500gb NVME drive (VM Storage)
500gb 2.5" SATA SSD (Drivepool cache drive)
4tb 2.5 SATA SSD (Part of pool)
2x6tb WD Red 3.5" (Part of pool)
AMD Ryzen 5700G
64GB RAM
250gb NVME drive (OS)
500gb NVME drive (VM Storage)
500gb 2.5" SATA SSD (Drivepool cache drive)
4tb 2.5 SATA SSD (Part of pool)
2x6tb WD Red 3.5" (Part of pool)