HP ProLiant MicroServer Owners Club! (Attempting to sell here will result in bans)

[Blinky]

Originally Posted by neilt0

Garbage. 4TB drives work: http://www.greenleaf-technology.com/...11766930812340

Excellent news! All the microservers floating around just got a new lease of life.

[wmmartin]

If anyone is interested in putting 16GB of RAM in their N40L, eBay is your friend.

G.Skill Ares Low Profile F3-1333C9D-16GAO, I just picked up some of these.

I also discovered that HP actually made a Quad Rank 16GB ECC DIMM, available on eBay for about $190 at the moment, if someone is game to try it.

[gbh]

Sorry can't be stuffed to read the whole thread.
will 16gig work in the N36L or just the 40?

[DenDen711]

Originally Posted by Blinky

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search...117+4294949647

The 5400s are "Temporarily out of stock", but $279usd isn't bad buying.

Thanks Blinky. The Coolspins have been out of stock at B&H for a couple of weeks.

I'm awatiting advice back from B&H about an ETA (to try & gauge availability in B&H supply chain). I've noticed price rises on Amazon (& some lack of stock) so I'm considering just getting a couple of 7200s for $300 in case 5400s supply is lacking. If they are a bit noisy for the HTPC, I can swap later & use them on WHS unit if 5400s return.

BTW, I've also seen reports that the 7200s are 24/7 rated & the 5400s may not be. But like so much of the info sourced on large capacity drives, the relationship of info to Fact is unclear.

Cheers

[wmmartin]

Originally Posted by gbh

Sorry can't be stuffed to read the whole thread.
will 16gig work in the N36L or just the 40?

Both from memory

[Rogue_Elefant]

Originally Posted by gbh

Sorry can't be stuffed to read the whole thread.
will 16gig work in the N36L or just the 40?

if using the N36L go the G.Skills, the Patriot is too hit and miss.

[Skitza]

Originally Posted by Rogue_Elefant

if using the N36L go the G.Skills, the Patriot is too hit and miss.

Lies. I'm 3 of 3 from my patriot g2's, all work perfectly. Will be getting the same for my last server.

[mR_CaESaR]

Originally Posted by Skitza

Lies. I'm 3 of 3 from my patriot g2's, all work perfectly. Will be getting the same for my last server.

Same.

I've never seen any reports on this thread, on hard forum, on whirlpool of 16GB patriot g2's not working.

[GooSE]

Originally Posted by wmmartin

I also discovered that HP actually made a Quad Rank 16GB ECC DIMM, available on eBay for about $190 at the moment, if someone is game to try it.

Don't waste your money. Registered memory definitely will not work on the N36L or N40L.

[wmmartin]

Originally Posted by GooSE

Don't waste your money. Registered memory definitely will not work on the N36L or N40L.

I've already purchased G.Skill's. But thought I'd post it anyway.

[Osir1s]

Hey guys, want to order the stuff to add another hdd to the NL36, have the bracket ordered already but wondering do I need to order any connectors for the power or sata?

At work atm and want to order today but forgot to look this morning >.<

Cheers

[Rogue_Elefant]

Originally Posted by Skitza

Lies. I'm 3 of 3 from my patriot g2's, all work perfectly. Will be getting the same for my last server.

I purchased 3 sets - for 3 N36L's and only 1 set worked - and it only worked in one of the N36L's I had.

Replaced ram with G.Skill equivalent - all N36L's ran fine with 16GB.

When I returned the ram - the guy testing it - did find that one of the kits was faulty. But it doesn't explain why the working kit didn't work in any of the other N36L's.

Before you rant on about "lies" and other crap - i've worked in I.T. for over 17 years and have my own I.T. consultancy - so I do know what I'm doing.

I wasted so much time stuffing around with the Patriot - Goodluck to you that you got them to work. I'm just posting the warning to others, so they don't go through the pain I went through.

[Badz0r]

Hey all,

I'm about to order a Microserver + 8 gig ram and am not really sure what OS to use on the stock 250gig hdd.

What I want is the ability to make 4 x 3TB drives appear as 1 giant drive 12TB drive (but without the downfall of a RAID 0 build where 1 drive goes, all data is lost). I am not really interested in redundancy as if I lose a drive with whatever what on it then it doesnt bother me.

I looked through the ZFS documentation (Solaris/FreeBSD/Ubuntu) and couldn't see a setup that would do this. The only thing I've found that might do this is Windows Home Server 2011 and its Drive Extender functionality?

Is this the case? Does anyone else have any other solutions? Would appreciate some assistance.

Thanks!

[Skitza]

Originally Posted by Rogue_Elefant

I purchased 3 sets - for 3 N36L's and only 1 set worked - and it only worked in one of the N36L's I had.

Replaced ram with G.Skill equivalent - all N36L's ran fine with 16GB.

When I returned the ram - the guy testing it - did find that one of the kits was faulty. But it doesn't explain why the working kit didn't work in any of the other N36L's.

Before you rant on about "lies" and other crap - i've worked in I.T. for over 17 years and have my own I.T. consultancy - so I do know what I'm doing.

I wasted so much time stuffing around with the Patriot - Goodluck to you that you got them to work. I'm just posting the warning to others, so they don't go through the pain I went through.

Cool story - FYI I didn't get them to work, they just do perhaps you got a shit batch, I and many others are having great success. Are you running the stock bios? Modded or the latest off the hp site? Discounting an entire line when you and only you are having an issue should tell your "IT" mind that something is not right with your setup. I'm glad the g skills work, they would be my next choice.

[HUMMER]

Originally Posted by Badz0r

What I want is the ability to make 4 x 3TB drives appear as 1 giant drive 12TB drive (but without the downfall of a RAID 0 build where 1 drive goes, all data is lost). I am not really interested in redundancy as if I lose a drive with whatever what on it then it doesnt bother me.

your only option then is Concatenation (SPAN, BIG).

implemented in Mac OS X 10.4 or Windows home server drive extender. for more details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-RAI..._architectures