Small NAS = HP Micro Server

I hate you!! I'm sitting here plutzing... where's my damn server?!
I dont even care that i know i wont have time to play with it till the weekend.. i want it nooooow!

edit: just came, boss wont let me leave work early

edit 2: the server that is....

 

Woohoo mine ordered from dessytek has shipped today and I have a tracking number!

 

My order didnt go thru and i ordered on friday and paid on saturday night.. sigh ive missed out on a great deal.
does anyone have any spare? or point me to an international website to order one, if you get one from the Uk with the cash back it is comparable to the deal going here.

 

I looked into that avenue, but it seems that you had to have a UK address and UK proof of purchase

best bet now is to wait for the inevitable eBay rush,mind you there seem to be some for sale in italy...that will ship to Australia
if anyone here can speak italian..feel free to translate for the masses

mine are still processing according to megabuy :S so I've tentatively got an eBay autosearch hoping for one that won't cost me an arm and a leg o.o

 

Weird, I can't even get in contact, just rings out, no email responses grrr.

 

if this is any help to anyone here

4GB ECC:
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=4gb+DDR3+ECC+-"Non+ECC"+-"non-ecc"+-"nonecc"&spos=1

8gb ECC:
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=8gb+DDR3+ECC+-"Non+ECC"+-"non-ecc"+-"nonecc"&spos=1

2gb ECC:
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=2gb+DDR3+ECC+-"Non+ECC"+-"non-ecc"+-"nonecc"&spos=1

 

Nothing to see here...

 

No. That's Registered ECC. It won't work.

You want PC3-10600E which is Unbuffered ECC (ie non-registered). That ram is PC3-10600R which is Registered (aka Buffered).

 

Can anyone explain this:

Code:

Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sdb1[4] sdc1[2] sdd1[1] sde1[0]
      5860540032 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [UUU_]
      [========>............]  recovery = 42.8% (837858600/1953513344) finish=1339.3min speed=13883K/sec
      bitmap: 12/15 pages [48KB], 65536KB chunk

13.8MB/s rebuild. It's been running for about 14 hours so far - WTF?

 

Aha...lucky I decided not to purchase then!

 

just got my tracking number too

 

What drives are you using? if they are 4k sector ones, and you haven't aligned the partitions, you'll get rubbish performance. I just use the entire device with mdadm (ie /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 partition) and it completely avoids any alignment issues.

 

Does your tracking number actually work or are we assuming they've just set them ready for pickup now?

 

Wondering if everyone realizes that you can pretty much build a more powerful, similar system using 2nd hand or leftover parts for basically the same sort of price.

Eg, a box I have:

Intel E5300
Big Typhoon heatsink (old spare)
2GB DDR2
P965-DS3
512MB 8400GS
Old coolermaster case/psu

In 2nd hand parts value, the above system is worth about $150 or so.

Downside:
- A bit more idle power. 45w vs 70w
- Case takes up more room
- Doesn't have the simplicity of the ProLiant

Upside
- Overclocked at 3.5 Ghz, its basically 3 times the CPU power
- More expansion slots options in drive bays and PCI/PCI-e slots
- Better potential for a VMware machine
- Better potential for HTPC (encoding, DVI, codec flexibility, GUI performance, etc)

I jumped on the $400 Dell SC430 way back then because the CPU cost alone makes it worth it. The ProLiant seems too stunted for anything but a single purpose storage box with limited expansion.

 

wtf mine was " shipped " status agesss ago like 2 days ago? and i still havent got any tracking ID s wtf.

 

when did you order?

 

I am guessing you could also use the GParted Live CD/USB to create the aligned partitions.

This is what I had to do with my Samsung F4 HD204UI to be able to use it in XP.

 

But these are new, with a warranty, which implies reliability.

It's like saying "Why buy a new small car for $15k when you can buy a 10yro BMW for the same price which has more power/luxury"

 

Yeah, they're 4k Seagates. I HAD created the partitions aligned, but Ubuntu couldn't create an array from those partitions, so I blew them away and let Ubuntu recreate them thinking it was modern and would be smart enough to get it right. Maybe I'm wrong.

Guess I'll recreate them... again. For the fifth time ;p

 

It's not an issue with Ubuntu. The drives themselves present as 512b sectors, and internally convert to 4k. If they presented as 4k drives to ubuntu they would be fine. My advice is to just dump the partitions altogether.

This is mine for example:

md0 : active raid6 sdg[2] sdh[3] sdk[7] sdj[6] sdd[0] sde[1] sdi[5] sdf[4]
11721080448 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/8] [UUUUUUUU]

Uses the entire device to create the raid.