HP ProLiant MicroServer

[orin76]

are you justifying this for yourself, or for him (not necessary)?

Just listing possible reasons why some of us choose linux despite the difficulties.

 

[chopsuey]

Any ideas where to source a GT210 that would fit? I'm not too keen on bending metal fins.

I was looking at this: http://www.take2.co.za/electronics-...cs-card-gt210-512mb-64bit-gddr2--5391559.html
but Take2 got back to me saying it didn't come with a LP bracket.

Bought the one from your link (a month ago) from Take2 and it came with a normal bracket (already installed) and a Low Profile bracket that fits in my MicroServer no problem.


Not sure if this is the best card because I had some stuttering when playing BIG 1080p files in XBMC/Ubuntu 11.4. This was with no tweaking. Planning to install 64Bit Ubuntu to have access to more memory, then I'll probably have a closer look at the 1080p issue.

 

[The_Unnamed]

So i think i am going to give up on Linux.
Going to put Windows 7 on with FlexRAID and XBMC. Will get a bluetooth dongle and use my PS3 remote with it. Hopefully it will all work happily.

 

[Re83L]

This might help some of you that wants to run Linux (like myself)
After extensive searching, I came across this: Look at the last picture

I'll be ordering one today, wootware is busy adding it to their site for me.

are you justifying this for yourself, or for him (not necessary)?

So Yeti, PostMan's been saying your N36L is playing 1080p media in Linux using the 5450, any truth to that?
We'd all appreciate if you could help us if that's the case

 

[PostmanPot]

So Yeti, PostMan's been saying your N36L is playing 1080p media in Linux using the 5450, any truth to that?
We'd all appreciate if you could help us if that's the case

Yes, as long as it's not in XBMC it plays 1080p in Linux which you agreed with. I was speaking from a performance PoV of the 5450 under Linux without understanding XBMC under Linux specifically is problematic. This has already been explained?

 

[rorz0r]

Here's a vid I took of avatar playing. Think the file was 11gb.
HP MS, GT210, Ubuntu installed on the 250gb.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/f7ule9 (42mb)

Oh and there's quite a bit of ghosting but that's from the cam.

 

[jannievanzyl]

Some feedback on the 'hang with large copy issue" on the HP MS where the HP MS will hang when copying, across the NIC, for a long time at high speed.

I was able to replicate this problem on at least two different HP MS boxes running unRAID v4.7, which is an Ubuntu build - don't have the Ubuntu version now but posted it somewhere above.

Recently built another two 5-disk unRAID systems on v5-beta. These are on a newer Ubuntu build and the Ethernet driver is newer, as reported by ethtool.

Neither these two boxes showed the same problem, so it looks like the latest NIC driver in Ubuntu resolved this problem.

For those interested, some pics of my 10, 8 and 5-disk NAS boxes, all running unRAID:

10-disk - dual PSU system

8-disk - 7 disks installed

5-disk on HP MS and another - using flashed BIOS to enable all SATA ports.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Jannie... just to preempt everyone else..

We hate you, but in a good way ..

Those are some awesome pieces of kit. I only have 2 ML110's for the moment, and haven't maxed them out just yet.

 

[The_Unnamed]

I came across this page for those of you with ATI cards.
http://tomwells.org/?p=199

Maybe try it and report your results.

 

[jannievanzyl]

Jannie... just to preempt everyone else..

We hate you, but in a good way ..

Those are some awesome pieces of kit. I only have 2 ML110's for the moment, and haven't maxed them out just yet.

The first, full tower, server I built about 3 years ago as my first all-in-one server. Ubuntu 8.04, Vmware, RAID-5, etc. with 8 x 1TB HA drives (of which 3 have already failed ). The cost then was close to 20K and basically gave ~6.5TB usable space.

The HP MS with 5 x 2TB drives, giving around 7.5TB usable space is ~R5K!. Since I've got the big box, and I'm fed up trying to run everything on one box (it works fine, just don't try and upgrade one component without breaking everything else), I upgraded it to unRAID as well, allowing me to seamlessly grow to over 20TB!

But to anyone starting out, my advice would be to build multiple HP MS NAS' if you need more space.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Thats my plan.

I currently have UnRaid running on my one ML110 with just 2 drives for the moment.. will add a 3rd for Parity shortly then upgrade the system to take more drives....

Then my other ML110 will very probably get the same treatment shortly.

 

[Budza]

Some feedback on the 'hang with large copy issue" on the HP MS where the HP MS will hang when copying, across the NIC, for a long time at high speed.

I was able to replicate this problem on at least two different HP MS boxes running unRAID v4.7, which is an Ubuntu build - don't have the Ubuntu version now but posted it somewhere above.

Recently built another two 5-disk unRAID systems on v5-beta. These are on a newer Ubuntu build and the Ethernet driver is newer, as reported by ethtool.

Neither these two boxes showed the same problem, so it looks like the latest NIC driver in Ubuntu resolved this problem.

For those interested, some pics of my 10, 8 and 5-disk NAS boxes, all running unRAID:

10-disk - dual PSU system

8-disk - 7 disks installed

5-disk on HP MS and another - using flashed BIOS to enable all SATA ports.

Imagine that collection at R2/MB

 

[bar1]

a few questions, it would be perfect as a NAS device from my HTPC system.

do u need a graphics card for it? is there an on board one? will be be possible to set it up without a graphics card?
i see on the specs it says 4bays but people installing 5 drives?

Edit: is the 5th drive instead of a dvd drive?

Edit 2 (lol):is it 4 bays not including the 250GB drive?

 

[SomeoneEls]

a few questions, it would be perfect as a NAS device from my HTPC system.

do u need a graphics card for it? is there an on board one? will be be possible to set it up without a graphics card?
i see on the specs it says 4bays but people installing 5 drives?

Edit: is the 5th drive instead of a dvd drive?

Edit 2 (lol):is it 4 bays not including the 250GB drive?

Welcome! No need for a graphics card for using it as a NAS. The graphics cards are for using the HP Microserver as a HTPC, it has an onboard ATI HD4300

4 bays. 1 comes occupied with the 250GB drive.

The optical bay is where people install the 5th drive with a bracket

 

[greggpb]

4 drivers in the normal bays, 1 in the optical drive bay.. and there is space for 1 2.5inch in there as well.. so 6 drives in total..

 

[jannievanzyl]

4 drivers in the normal bays, 1 in the optical drive bay.. and there is space for 1 2.5inch in there as well.. so 6 drives in total..

Where do you put the 2.5"?

There is a 6th SATA port on the back, so you could run a cable back into the box.

 

[Off-The-Chart]

well you can push this little beast to:

4x 2.5 drives
5x 3.5 drives

which could max a total of 19TB's if your drives are the max capacity available atm.

 

[bar1]

ok..mmm...very tempting!!!
any chance it will be R999 again anytime soon?

 

[bar1]

whats the recommended set up for a nas?
whats the difference between freeNas,unraid, etc...

 

[jannievanzyl]

whats the recommended set up for a nas?
whats the difference between freeNas,unraid, etc...

Here you go.

But to make it simple:

- Lots of data access with lots of read/write (as in your business data) - FreeNAS
- Anything else, especially storing lots of media - unRAID.