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Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #150 on: January 02, 2013, 14:44:54 PM
A microserver, serving media to XBMC and doing a few other bits will be perfectly fine with 4GB of RAM right?

I'm looking at getting a 4GB stick and then maybe getting another in the future for 8GB. I'm not entirely sure what it'll end up doing but its gonna be doing newsgroup based stuff aswell.

I'm gonna be running mint linux, I think, so its gonna be open to adding lotsa stuff to it. Stuff like newsgroup indexing interests me, for personal use, which could be quite RAM intensive, couldn't it?
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Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #151 on: January 02, 2013, 23:26:08 PM
I've got 4GB in mine, running windows and torrents, live encoding, DNLA, SABnzbd, VPN etc.. runs fine, to be honest in you are not watching it do it's stuff then I don't think you have to worry too much

Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #152 on: May 24, 2013, 19:08:11 PM
HP ProLiant G7 N54L 2.2GHz MicroServer 109.99 after cash back!!!!!

Be quick this is the new model, it has has £50 cash back for a while on the old list price of 312.09!

- £100 CASHBACK AVAILABLE UNTIL 30TH JUNE!
- AMD N54L / 2.2GHz
- 2GB DDR3 SDRAM
- HDD 1x 250GB

£209.99 - £100 = £109.99!!!!

This is a better deal than the old one!!

Linky: http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-proliant-microserver-turion-2-2-2gb-250gb-nhpl-sata-lff-in-704941-421
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Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #153 on: May 24, 2013, 20:44:36 PM
Awesome, now I'm back in the UK and working I was thinking I may need a 2nd microserver. Will have another look at finances in a few weeks.

edit: got a supplier link for that price? If not I'll just google around tomorrow :P
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Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #154 on: May 24, 2013, 20:47:29 PM
Doh! Updated with link!

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Reply #155 on: May 24, 2013, 21:09:08 PM
Was pricing things up early and it does work out cheaper to buy a new microserver and 4x 2TB drives than upgrade my current one with 4x 4TB.
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HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #156 on: March 06, 2015, 19:50:58 PM
HP Micro Server Gen 8 - £145 (after cash back)!!

Appears to be a bargain!

CPU: Intel Celeron G1610T / 2.3 GHz
RAM: 2GB - 1 slot free
Optical: None
Ethernet Ports: 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Remote Management Controller: Integrated Lights-Out 4
Slots:
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 - low-profile
1 x microSD Card
1 x VGA
5 x USB 2.0 ( 2 front, 2 rear, 1 internal )
2 x USB 3.0

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-proliant-gen8-g1610t-micro-server-179-99-144-99-after-cashback-ebuyer-2159040

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Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #158 on: April 04, 2015, 09:19:05 AM
Just bought the g8 £119.99 after cashback.

From what I have read it will only work with ECC RAM

HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #159 on: April 04, 2015, 16:47:15 PM
Yeah, I heard the same. A few things to note the cpu is replaceable in this model,  so can up the power to an i3 (or higher if you don't mind being a bit more risky exceeding the 35w barrier and generating more heat in the case. Other thing to note that the built in remote management requires a licence to unlock all features, although I think you can get some cheap licences on the eBay.
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Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #160 on: April 04, 2015, 17:59:28 PM
Indeed, or shell out the £400+ for the xeon model?

Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #161 on: April 07, 2015, 08:32:20 AM
From what I have read it will only work with ECC RAM

thats a requirement for all of them. its getting harder to find cheap server ram.

Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #162 on: April 07, 2015, 13:12:45 PM

From what I have read it will only work with ECC RAM

thats a requirement for all of them. its getting harder to find cheap server ram.

The previous versions N36-N54 would be fine on Non-ECC RAM, it was just recommended.

Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #163 on: April 11, 2015, 18:53:06 PM
Very happy with my G8, very nice bit of kit

Running 16Gb RAM, 4x 3TB SATA discs and an 8GB USB flash drive to boot freenas

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Re: HP Proliant Microserver - Purchase, Upgrade & Setup Guide
Reply #164 on: April 11, 2015, 19:35:00 PM
Why do you need so much RAM in it if its just doing Freenas?

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