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

[Skitza]

Originally Posted by doodz

Anyone in Sydney interested in getting these RAMs? I might be ordering some other crucial ram and their shipping is $25 regardless if you order 1 or 4. So maybe one or two Sydney people can combine in. cyrax83?? Wanna get some?

GSkill 8G(2x4G) DDR3 1333 PC10600 (F3-10600CL9D-8GBNT)

Can get that for $65 and it works fine with the Microserver from the comments.

[Roscoe]

So I have two on the way (don't ask how that happened) and I've been looking at which OS to run. I'll be running 8GB of RAM, using the supplied drive for OS and putting in 4x 2TB drives.

As for the OS I'm not sure, my current NAS is Linux based and it's to the point that I have created plenty of custom scripts and fudged plenty of packages on it.

But I was thinking of Windows Home Server 2011 until I noticed some funky 2TB limit. My intention was to simply have 6TB presented as one file system / share. So based on that 2TB limit I'm thinking Linux - I'm sure most will run but has anyone hit any issues with certain flavours or can recommend one over another. No GUI will be installed.

[Chrysilis]

Originally Posted by Roscoe

So I have two on the way (don't ask how that happened) and I've been looking at which OS to run. I'll be running 8GB of RAM, using the supplied drive for OS and putting in 4x 2TB drives.

As for the OS I'm not sure, my current NAS is Linux based and it's to the point that I have created plenty of custom scripts and fudged plenty of packages on it.

But I was thinking of Windows Home Server 2011 until I noticed some funky 2TB limit. My intention was to simply have 6TB presented as one file system / share. So based on that 2TB limit I'm thinking Linux - I'm sure most will run but has anyone hit any issues with certain flavours or can recommend one over another. No GUI will be installed.

I've got a ~4tb drive through Drive Bender on WHS 2011 with no issues...

[qwertylesh]

2TB os limit? :O
or are you talking about the N36L itself, because it runs 3TBs no trouble, and WHS11 should do GPT and even basic partition types <2TB w/o trouble either

[CHiMPY]

Originally Posted by Skitza

GSkill 8G(2x4G) DDR3 1333 PC10600 (F3-10600CL9D-8GBNT)

Can get that for $65 and it works fine with the Microserver from the comments.

Yes, but unless I am missing something. That is not ECC RAM which is what the crucial stuff is and what most people are after for the server.

[Roscoe]

Originally Posted by qwertylesh

2TB os limit?

Nothing to do with the N36L or RAID but from what I've read WHS 2011 can't create a file system greater then 2TB. If you Google you'll find plenty of references but here is a good example on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV1hX9jT8Fk

[Skitza]

Originally Posted by CHiMPY

Yes, but unless I am missing something. That is not ECC RAM which is what the crucial stuff is and what most people are after for the server.

Yes but ECC is not needed, the specs don't really mention it but from what I can tell NON ECC will be fine.

[qwertylesh]

lots of us are using non ecc in these.

Originally Posted by Roscoe

Nothing to do with the N36L or RAID but from what I've read WHS 2011 can't create a file system greater then 2TB. If you Google you'll find plenty of references but here is a good example on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV1hX9jT8Fk

thats pretty horrible imo.

[timhn]

Anyone know any other GT520 video cards can fit into the unit - beside the Leadtek GT520 ?

[teksavvy]

FreeNAS 8.0.1-BETA4 released today

Download from here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/free...FreeNAS-8.0.1/

Release Notes here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/free...4.txt/download

Below taken from release notes.
The new size requires a 2 GB storage device. The GUI upgrade can be used to upgrade a system from BETA3 to BETA4, but upgrades from previous releases can only be done from the CD. The other option is to save the config, reinstall the new version, then restore the config

[nogi]

Originally Posted by cyrax83

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MM52T35/

Someone on OCAU is organising a group buy of these for around $20 landed I believe.

That would be me. I would need to order 30+ units to get it for around $20 landed in Brisbane. Not sure if we would have the demand here for that many given the eBay alternatives.

[teksavvy]

Originally Posted by nogi

That would be me. I would need to order 30+ units to get it for around $20 landed in Brisbane. Not sure if we would have the demand here for that many given the eBay alternatives.

Someone in the previous posts provide this link.

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?...ducts_id=11025

[fido666]

Originally Posted by teksavvy

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?...ducts_id=11025

I'm concerned about the separation between the 2 drives with this bracket, it might end up being too tall to fit under the microserver's lid with both drives fitted. If you flip one of the drives the other way as suggested earlier I'm not sure they would both be able to be screwed in.

[DRAGONKZ]

How are people fitting multiple PCIe cards into these?

To be more specific, how are you physically fitting a card in to the 1x/4x PCIe slots that are designed for the remote management card.

I had the intention of running a RAID card and a dual port NIC, but can't see how both will fit without mods?

[Statts]

Originally Posted by DRAGONKZ

How are people fitting multiple PCIe cards into these?

To be more specific, how are you physically fitting a card in to the 1x/4x PCIe slots that are designed for the remote management card.

I had the intention of running a RAID card and a dual port NIC, but can't see how both will fit without mods?

They will fit just fine, so long as one of them is only x1. Not sure why you think there is anything special about the x1 slot.