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Posted 10 July 2014
HP Proliant N54L Microserver - £129.99 @ Ebuyer
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sorted byYou'd be cutting your own throat if you took a NAS over this at the price point.
Infinitely more flexible and future proof, you end up doing way more even if you didn't plan to at the start.
Think treasure trove for the inner geek in us all
I run NAS4FREE from a USB thumb drive in the internal USB port. 5 hard drives installed, never increased the ram ether
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4gb is far more useful.
£129 is a good price.
Do we all? Speak for yourself, mine is used as the boot drive because I don't require wasting money on an SSD for a machine that is on 24/7 and I don't yet require the drive space that it uses up.
That's like buying an umbrella, then complaining that it makes a terrible pool cue
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Please tell me where I can buy a Server, not a NAS box for less that £130? Yes the previous deals with Cashback were good but were probably never meant to last so long.
As for the retailers inflating the prices.
1) the specs are different, 4GB Ram is a boost.
2) HP set the wholesale cost. I think you'll find the wholesale cost during Cashback was higher than it was now. Due to the Cashback disappearing this probably is the more realistic price.
These ultra flexible and cheap machines will go the way of the dodo. Buy now while you can.
Add the fact that if you bought one of the cash back deals you could only have put another 2GB memory in without replacing the 2GB stick that it came with make this a better deal IMO than any of the cash back deals.
I mean who kept 2gb of memory or the 250gb hdd in them anyway. Most I know put 8GB and 5 new hard drives, with this deal you only need one 4gb memory stick and the hard drives whereas with the cash back deal you needed 2 4GB stick and the hard drive. If putting 5 large drives and 8GB memory in is your intention then this deal will leave you about £60 better off.
Hot from me.
ebuyer.com/487…eus £119.99 inc VAT and free delivery.
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No one uses the 250GB drive in these...We all use SSD for boot flash the bios and have all 4 hot swappable drive bays for data storage.With the SSD using the mobo sata header located in the DVD drive bay
Hot now shipping with 4GB ram
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£190 delivered if you want the earlier 2GB RAM / 250GB HD version
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These are extremely flexible devices. Perfect for things that need to be left on 24x7 and requiring little cpu power.
Typical usage ranges from standard Network storage to full blown HTPC running plex/xmbc. I use it for both and also for torrenting.
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My friend talked me into buying one and it came with the 2gb and 250gb hdd. Then my friend gave me his spare 2gb ram from his hp microserver.
I bought a 60gb ssd to run win7 and put in a 1tb wd green, along 2 more 250gb hdd's. Put in a Radeon 5450 low-profile gfx card. Its on 24/7 running sabnzbd, plex to stream to the nowtv box in my girls room and chromecast to the main tv.
Hardly notice that it is on as it doesn't make too much noise. Haven't had any blue screens sofar and its been running solid.
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maths
HotUKdeals, so we need to be using proper English and not the American variety
It has 4x USB2 ports on the front, one of which I plug my k400r ('Logitech Unifying') reciever into. It works well for me. I've got mine under the TV running XBMC.
Perfect for me up in the highlands ebuyer charge me stupid money for delivery makes it £10 cheaper
Thanks for posting
Sooo tempted Was going to get a nice new GFX card but this is more tempting lol
Where the micro server failed me is no sleep mode. I had no idea the thing can only hibernate.
The revo goes into deep sleep using maybe 3watts and then only wakes up when someone starts xbmc or Plex or a TV recording is scheduled.
Thus the cost for power is incredibly low. The micro server isn't actually that low on power usage. It was ages ago that I measured it but I am sure it was over 60watts without a graphics card. But then was still 20 something watts on hibernation. So cost might be lower to start but electricity bills will mount.
Why oh why couldn't they have managed low power sleep for it?
I suppose I could replace my IX2 nas with this as well but that is also a few watts at idle. I desperately want to be able to justify bringing it into more active duty but even if it does dual duty as nas and htpc (if that's possible) it still costs a lot more to run.
The second is a Backup server..running windows 8.1 pro...Which backups the Media server pool for all the stuff I don't want to lose like home movies and photos.This is located in the main house.
The third is a Windows 8.1 pro which is used for PLEX and streaming.
Brilliant machines
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The server was 129 when the 50 quid cashback as the price was 179 few months ago
This server regardless of cashback is hot at 150 quid never mind 129 quid.
at last check a fully loaded N54L runs at 40w so just shy of 7kW per week. So using a super high 20p per unit that's about £70 a year at worst case scenario.
maybe a few facts would have come across a little better, maybe you haven't had a hug this century.
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My SkyHD box uses 60w so think it's pretty good.
That's about 1.3 KWh's per day with my tariff rates with Ovo energy that's just short of 15p a day.
I use all OpenELEC clients and the server is merely streaming which it handles in it's sleep.
My advice would be don't blame the server for another devices shortfalls.
I also have a N36L the original version with 1.5ghz processor and it hasn't been switched off for 3 years! it streams to xbmc at 5% cpu load no problem.
My limited research led me to get this one. I think it has been cheaper in the past but was still the cheapest way of meeting my requirements.
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Exactly, just looking at building your own comparative device makes you realise what a bargain these are (just not as much of a bargain as previously that's all).
You can run something like FreeNAS from USB but the microserver is only USB 2.0 so you won't benefit from the USB 3.0 speeds. Not that that makes a great deal of difference with FreeNAS but you could get away with a much cheaper USB 2 device.
To create a bootable USB OS installer use this:
microsoftstore.com/sto…ool
I don't think you can install Windows Server to a USB device though so you will need to use a sata port for your boot drive.
This and similar offers at Amazon: no hard disc supplied.
This and similar offers at Amazon: no hard disc supplied.