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Eggtastico · **Reply #45 on:** April 24, 2011, 11:36:22 AM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #45 on: April 24, 2011, 11:36:22 AM

Quote from: Dooms on April 22, 2011, 00:14:27 AM

Looks like you can stick quite a few of the lower level £30 gfx cards in there to turn it into a happy HTPC/Server which is what I was after. The nVidia passive 210 cards seem to be what I would go for over the recommended ATI ones in the HDUK thread only because a lot of the 'live' HTPC and OS's are based of linux which generally work a lot better driver wise with nvida over ati.

ATI dont work as well with linux, so thats why nvidia gets recommended a lot.

Leon · **Reply #46 on:** April 25, 2011, 06:22:22 AM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #46 on: April 25, 2011, 06:22:22 AM

Thats what I said

The HDUK thread was recommending ATI cards mainly but I decided to go for the nVidia 210 instead for that very reason

XEntity · **Reply #47 on:** April 27, 2011, 10:40:11 AM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #47 on: April 27, 2011, 10:40:11 AM

Just to let you know my rebate arrived this morning

Eggtastico · **Reply #48 on:** April 27, 2011, 10:47:28 AM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #48 on: April 27, 2011, 10:47:28 AM

nice, i hope to order one tomorrow.. delay in my paycheque cos of the bankholiday.

Eggtastico · **Reply #49 on:** April 28, 2011, 09:24:35 AM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #49 on: April 28, 2011, 09:24:35 AM

ive ordered one with a zotac 210 passive cooled.
if it all works out well, Ill flog my popcorn hour.

Leon · **Reply #50 on:** May 04, 2011, 16:37:11 PM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #50 on: May 04, 2011, 16:37:11 PM

Quick update guys:

Offer has been extended till end of May and cheapest authorised supplier is Crescent Electronics @ £221.81 (£121.81 after cashback if you are REALLY terrible at maths).

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-proliant-microserver-221-81-delivered-crescent-electronics/888083

Leon · **Reply #51 on:** May 06, 2011, 09:12:28 AM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #51 on: May 06, 2011, 09:12:28 AM

Got mine setup last night without the extra gfx card (HS was too tall). Working on guides etc now for Media Server / XBMC.

Leon · **Reply #52 on:** May 18, 2011, 16:17:36 PM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #52 on: May 18, 2011, 16:17:36 PM

Actually got round to filling in my £100 claim form today. Printed it off, filled it in and sent via E-mail and got my claim accepted e-mail within the hour... can't complain about that

Clock'd 0Ne · **Reply #53 on:** May 18, 2011, 16:39:51 PM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #53 on: May 18, 2011, 16:39:51 PM

I paid my cheque in a couple of weeks ago and I haven't even started setting it up yet

They are very prompt though which is good.

Paul S · **Reply #54 on:** May 23, 2011, 22:21:49 PM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #54 on: May 23, 2011, 22:21:49 PM

Quote from: XEntity on March 20, 2011, 23:31:16 PM

I believe the raid on this is also software based not hardware, but some people have then purchased a RAID card to go in one of the PCI-X slots and ignored the onboard raid. However a friend of mine is looking to raid 5 his, I'll have a word with him to see how he is going to do it?

That'll be me then! I used MS Server 2008 R2 and software RAID 5 to make 4 x 2TB Samsungs into 6TB. Seems solid as a rock, with shares working well across XP / Win 7 and OSX platforms. Decent read / write speeds, that seem to keep up with the requirements of multiple machines connected to it, including a HTPC running XBMC.

XEntity · **Reply #55 on:** May 23, 2011, 22:49:51 PM

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Reply #55 on: May 23, 2011, 22:49:51 PM

Out of interest what read and write speeds are you getting over the network? You using gigabit?

Eggtastico · **Reply #56 on:** May 23, 2011, 23:12:15 PM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #56 on: May 23, 2011, 23:12:15 PM

Ive plugged an wireless dongle in the internal USB, so I dont get very fast.

Clock'd 0Ne · **Reply #57 on:** May 24, 2011, 00:45:52 AM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #57 on: May 24, 2011, 00:45:52 AM

Quote from: Paul S on May 23, 2011, 22:21:49 PM

That'll be me then! I used MS Server 2008 R2 and software RAID 5 to make 4 x 2TB Samsungs into 6TB. Seems solid as a rock, with shares working well across XP / Win 7 and OSX platforms. Decent read / write speeds, that seem to keep up with the requirements of multiple machines connected to it, including a HTPC running XBMC.

Cheers, that's exactly what I intended to do. I just need the 4x 2Tb drives now.

Leon · **Reply #58 on:** May 24, 2011, 07:58:15 AM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #58 on: May 24, 2011, 07:58:15 AM

I got my 4x 2TB's in the bays and put the 250GB system drive in the 5.25" Drive with an adapter. One thing I was noticed is that it doesn't already run a SATA cable up to the bay for you (I ran one down the front to the ODD port) but the thing I was surpsied about it that it gives you 3x MATX power connectors but no extra Sata Power, luckily I had one of the convertor cables kicking about.

I also haven't noticed any of the extreme slowdown when running on the ODD port (which was suggested in the unraid thread before).

Paul S · **Reply #59 on:** May 24, 2011, 08:45:12 AM

Re: HP Proliant Microserver

Reply #59 on: May 24, 2011, 08:45:12 AM

Jake, I've not checked the read / write speeds. I'm using it connected over my wireless network so that'll be the main limiting factor. (not that I haven't been thinking about wiring the house up!)

Dooms, I'm running in exactly the same configuration and also don't notice any slowdown.

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