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Posted 12 December 2010
HP ProLiant MicroServer / NAS 4/5 Bay (+ HP Cash Back / Quidco= £108.05)
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This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
Dabs £215.02
Quidco -£ 6.97 (4%)
HP C/B -£100.00
Total= £108.05 Now Plus delivery
Claim form:
h41112.www4.hp.com/pro…ver
Video Review of unit:
techhead.co.uk/vid…iew
Tech Spec;
h18004.www1.hp.com/pro…tml
At A Glance
* Processor:
o AMD Athlon™ II NEO N36L
o AMD RS785E/SB820M chipset
* Memory:
o Two (2) DIMM slots
o 1GB (1x1GB) Standard/8GB Maximum, using PC3-10600E DDR3 Unbuffered (UDIMM) ECC memory, operating at max. 800MHz
* Storage Controller:
o Embedded AMD SATA controller with RAID 0, 1
o Embedded AMD eSATA controller
* Storage Drive Support:
o 4 Internal HDD Support
o Maximum internal SATA storage capacity of up to 8.0TB (4 x 2TB 3.5" SATA drives)
* Network Controller:
o Embedded NC107i PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter
* Expansion Slots:
o Slot 1: PCI-Express Gen 2 x16 connector with x16 link
o Slot 2: PCI-Express Gen 2 x1 connector with x1 Link
o Slot 2-2: PCI-Express x4 slot for optional management card
* USB 2.0 Ports:
o Seven (7) USB 2.0 ports: 4 front , 2 rear, 1 internal (for tape)
* Power Supply:
o 150 Watts Non-Hot Plug, Non Redundant Power Supply
* Management:
o Optional MicroServer Remote Access Card
* Operating System:
o Supports Windows and Red Hat Linux
* Form Factor:
o Ultra Micro tower
Quidco -£ 6.97 (4%)
HP C/B -£100.00
Total= £108.05 Now Plus delivery
Claim form:
h41112.www4.hp.com/pro…ver
Video Review of unit:
techhead.co.uk/vid…iew
Tech Spec;
h18004.www1.hp.com/pro…tml
At A Glance
* Processor:
o AMD Athlon™ II NEO N36L
o AMD RS785E/SB820M chipset
* Memory:
o Two (2) DIMM slots
o 1GB (1x1GB) Standard/8GB Maximum, using PC3-10600E DDR3 Unbuffered (UDIMM) ECC memory, operating at max. 800MHz
* Storage Controller:
o Embedded AMD SATA controller with RAID 0, 1
o Embedded AMD eSATA controller
* Storage Drive Support:
o 4 Internal HDD Support
o Maximum internal SATA storage capacity of up to 8.0TB (4 x 2TB 3.5" SATA drives)
* Network Controller:
o Embedded NC107i PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter
* Expansion Slots:
o Slot 1: PCI-Express Gen 2 x16 connector with x16 link
o Slot 2: PCI-Express Gen 2 x1 connector with x1 Link
o Slot 2-2: PCI-Express x4 slot for optional management card
* USB 2.0 Ports:
o Seven (7) USB 2.0 ports: 4 front , 2 rear, 1 internal (for tape)
* Power Supply:
o 150 Watts Non-Hot Plug, Non Redundant Power Supply
* Management:
o Optional MicroServer Remote Access Card
* Operating System:
o Supports Windows and Red Hat Linux
* Form Factor:
o Ultra Micro tower
More details at Community Updates
572 Comments
sorted bySorry for the late response as I have just got back in the office this morning.
Usually on cash back promotions it doesn’t matter which channel partner you purchased it from, as long as it’s legit, however you would be best speaking directly with Outbound the organisation who process the cash back on behalf of HP. Their number is:
0118 976 9310
Kindest regards
So we can now all rest and enjoy this product! Hopefully mine comes today!!
Neither of those cards (or the eBay card suggested by Boogie) will work in the Proliant MicroServer as both those cards are PCI based whereas the MicroServer is PCI-E (PCI Express) based. You need a PCI-E based Firewire card, something like this. Although if all you want to do is to copy or access data to/from a Mac, a standard ethernet connection should suffice.
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The best setup in my opinion would be linux with software raid in the OS. The advatantage is mdadm is portable to another linux system. This is handy is the mobo fries or something. If you went with onboard raid from a SATA card, it'll more than likely be FakeRaid unless the card costs £100+. Fakeraid is not worth the trouble it causes.
Running most Linux operating systems the drives will spin down. It depends on the drive, but most do for 'green' reasons. You can also use a boot CD with some drives to enter a special utility to set them to green or 'acoustic' mode, but they might slow down.
Remember to put your OS on a seperate drive, or a USB stick, as writing log files will constantly be waking the RAID array otherwise.
BEKO86 (who I suspect may be a member of HUKD!) posted this thread on the XBMC forums:
forum.xbmc.org/sho…469
Apparently the following low-profile graphics card will be all you need to get this running as a media centre:
misco.co.uk/app…696
The HDMI does sound as well as video and is fully supported by the latest Dharma release candidate (and of course you've got the ion-style gpu video decoding).
If you went for the play.com RAM deal (2GB for £15) that was also on here I think you have a pretty decent media centre for an extra £60 (2x 2GB RAM @ £30 & nvidia GT210 @ £30).
Thanks to whoever suggested Amahi, looks incredible I'm surprised I'd never seen it before, will be putting it on as soon as I get mine!
h40059.www4.hp.com/e-p…tml
they also have the HP accreditations:
HP Accredited Presales Professional
HP Accredited Sales Consultant
HP Accredited Sales Professional
can't see a problem here
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forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho…324
"Out-Bound
Please do not worry about the HP product code; we are able to double check the product purchased using the [Supplier's product search] feature."
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"As long as all other terms and conditions are adhered to then purchases from Dabs.com do qualify for the promotion."
promotions@out-bound.co.uk.
Scan the claim form attach the Dabs invoice and send.
One of the most pathetic comments I’ve ever read. Did it ever cross your mind to read the spec of the server before ordering it? it seems that you didn’t, so you’re the one that deserves a good slap This server is an absolute bargain for around £100.
SATA Correct, Molex to SATA power required + one SATA cable (Molex only connectors inside). You may also want to try SBS 2008 installed this and very impressed with the speed (4GB installed)
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Follow the m0n0wall FreeBSD instructions - the instructions you link to are missing a vital step as the FreeNAS image is compressed, copying it directly to the USB stick won't result in a bootable system.
Don't know why you are p*ssed off with FreeNAS to be honest as it's not the problem here, it's your inability to follow instruction - rather than follow the "official" installation instructions you appear to have decided to follow instructions that are completely inappropriate, and then you blame FreeNAS.
Yes all drivers load fine except the on board raid but you can get these from HP.
I've set a 30 minute Standby timeout, and a 15 minute Idle timeout.
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APM on the Samsungs is OFF by default, so you shouldn't have anything to disable there - it's only once it is enabled that it becomes a problem (-B param on hdparm)!
hdparm doesn't support setting of the Idle timeout - FreeNAS uses ataidle which you can download and build quite easily (download the source, untar it, run "make" and job done). Then the commands to set idle and standby timeouts are:
sudo ataidle -I 15 -S 30 /dev/sdX
amazon.co.uk/Gen…L0L
Sata cable is long enough. £1.11 delivered. Arrived in 2 or 3 days.
Remember the screws (and tool) for the drive are in the door of the server.
Thanks chrisgw3. By pure coincidence I wound up buying exactly the same cable from Amazon this morning. It was froma different supplier though and it was 1p cheaper! amazon.co.uk/gp/…uct
I have already used the screws from the door and the wee tool to put them in. I loved the way the DVD drive just slotted into place. A lot of thought has gone into the design of the ProLiant. I am impressed.
This morning I got my cheque from HP too.
h41112.www4.hp.com/pro…ver
Use FreeNas / Linux or your old XP license
Use the on board pci-e and add your own (Raid 0 1 on amd chip-set built in)
With a RAID1, 4 x 1TB drives so 2TB storage. (or maybe even 4 x 2TB - 4TB storage)
Yes
Cabling is a bit tight in there, unless you can find a SAS/SATA controller which take a miniSAS cable and use the factory cabling still.
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I'm pretty sure the eSATA doesn't support port multiplier although I've not tried that yet.
On the positive side, the inbuilt lan chip is pretty impressive, giving better throughput than Intel/Broadcom server chips, sustaining 80+mb/sec over 10GB ftp transfers. iSCSI performance should be very good.
GUYS, CHECK THE PREVIOUS THREAD FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE AS MAJORITY HAVE ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED
hotukdeals.com/dea…575
But you won't be able to claim the cashback, meaning you'll pay more in the end.
You can't really gripe. Heat from me.
I can't see cheaper than £234 on ebay.co.uk.
I'd get this purely as a great priced proper NAS box with RAID 5, but already have a decent server.
Also echo a previous poster - don't use the fakeraid, stick Linux on it and use mdadm. Even better is to run the OS from a USB stick for speed and power reasons as the array can then spin down when it's not being accessed.
Hot price!