HP ProLiant MicroServer

Guys, do yourself a favour and get in touch with Henk from Prophecy. Explain to him that you're in need of an Innovision ACTIVELY cooled Geforce210. He contact his supplier for me, who actually opened the box for the card to confirm that it was actively cooled, before shipping. Received mine in a couple of days, no issue.
 
justjaxx said:
The Inno3D GT210 Active cooled fits without modification from what I understand - the problem is getting one - suppliers cant seem to distinguish between the active and passive cooled when placing the order - so you may get either.

I tried to order the active cooled, but got the passive cooled. I have a simple plan to modify the heatsink - basically trim about 10 - 15mm of the fins of the bottom, and it will slide in easily (fins are made of light metal and will trim easily). Will post pics when I get it done - its easy and will work.

Out of desperation, Ive even tried the ASUS GT220 Active cooled - this DOES NOT fit - modifying is going to be difficult as the heat sink is made of solid metal. From the pics, the ASUS GT210 Active cooled heat sink looks similar, so Im doubting that will fit either.

Ive also has a look at the ASUS GT210 Passive, and the heatsink is much larger than the Inno3D - the shape will make it difficult to trim the fins down.

Thats about all Ive tried. If you can get you hands on an Inno3D GT210 Active, thats the way to go. If not, the Passive will work with modification.

I didn't try the ATI 5450 due to XBMC's superior support for Nvidia.
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Mine fitted fine(tight but fine), the fan is slightly audible though if that bugs some people?

Messugga said:
Guys, do yourself a favour and get in touch with Henk from Prophecy. Explain to him that you're in need of an Innovision ACTIVELY cooled Geforce210. He contact his supplier for me, who actually opened the box for the card to confirm that it was actively cooled, before shipping. Received mine in a couple of days, no issue.
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Great tip... This may also help MSI low profile bracket kit R61 It says in stock have ordered one lets wait and see
 
Anyone going to install windows on this little thing! Struggling to find proper/working drivers for the NIC, cant get it to run at 1gigabit! ;/
 
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Managed to get mine working, now im just waiting for my sata card to arrive so i can slap in all 6 drives
 
I wonder how many drives this unit will be able to handle(the PSU)?

You think it would be able to run 6 3.5inch drives and a 2.5inch drive? Or would that put two much strain on the thing, if anyone has a meter(cant remember the name now) to check how much it uses with just the 4 or 5 drives in, please let me know!
 
I'm getting 4 of these , hopefully getting them early this week! Has anybody had any issues with XBMC on these as yet? I plan to pair them with GT210's.

And will I notice any drop/increase in performance if I install the OS on a USB flash drive instead of the included hard drive?
 
Freaksta said:
I wonder how many drives this unit will be able to handle(the PSU)?

You think it would be able to run 6 3.5inch drives and a 2.5inch drive? Or would that put two much strain on the thing, if anyone has a meter(cant remember the name now) to check how much it uses with just the 4 or 5 drives in, please let me know!
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It should be able to, but some may argue with me! The biggest power draw would be on boot when all the hard-drives spinup. Here's a post from the unRAID forums from a guy with 5 x 3.5" drives a 2.5"

Boot (peak): 115W
Idle (avg): 27W (all drives spun down)
Active (avg): 35W (downloading to cache drive at 20mbps with SABnzbd)
Light use (avg): 36W (unpacking rar with SABnzbd

All the readingsr would be the power used by the power supply and not what's drawn from it.Therefore these numbers would be high the PS is supposedly 85% efficient so around 98w at boot, which makes me think it can take another drive
 
SomeoneEls said:
It should be able to, but some may argue with me! The biggest power draw would be on boot when all the hard-drives spinup. Here's a post from the unRAID forums from a guy with 5 x 3.5" drives a 2.5"

Boot (peak): 115W
Idle (avg): 27W (all drives spun down)
Active (avg): 35W (downloading to cache drive at 20mbps with SABnzbd)
Light use (avg): 36W (unpacking rar with SABnzbd

All the readingsr would be the power used by the power supply and not what's drawn from it.Therefore these numbers would be high the PS is supposedly 85% efficient so around 98w at boot, which makes me think it can take another drive
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Cool thanks, i have been playing around with my one a bit and the clearance in the top is very little, i havent tried 2 x 3.5inch drives(full size), because the OS is on a slim drive, so im not sure if 2xfull size ones would even fit but ill give that a test next week! The 2.5 inch drive will definitly fit below the 5.25cage though, there is even space in the for a full 3.5inch drive if you are willing to do some cutting and bending of the cage! 1st step is to test if i can get 2x3.5inch drive in and then we can move from there! Otherwise i may be doing a few mods to the cage! hehe :)
 
xrapidx said:
Anyone know if this is capable as a PS3 Media Server?
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yes it can function as such as well.

This is a hardware only server that you buy.

You can install any os of your choice on it.

I am using serviio as a DLNA server at the moment - so it is most definitely capable.

Hence PS3 media server will run on it depending on your os of choice.
 
What I meant was would it be able to handle the decoding and streaming of 20GB MKVs :)

(I just ordered one)
 
xrapidx said:
What I meant was would it be able to handle the decoding and streaming of 20GB MKVs :)

(I just ordered one)
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That might be a problem. You will def need hw acceleration from the gfx to pull that off. So you'll have to stick to x264.
 
Thanks - So if I can find a low profile gfx it will do it (properly?

My old desktop, AMD 3200+, ATI X800 just isn't cutting it - it can manage most of them, but can't do any RW and FFDing on the files.
 
xrapidx said:
Thanks - So if I can find a low profile gfx it will do it (properly?
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Kinda reluctant to say definitely. For perspective:

This is a 1.3ghz dual core. My dads 2.4ghz single core w/ rubbish gfx cannot play 1080. So the CPU on its own will probably not cope. With acceleration from gfx I'd say >50% chance that it will.
 
xrapidx said:
Guess I'll use it for storage then :) Thanks.
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It has and Ati HD4200 onboard not sure if PS3 MS uses CUDA (or whatever the ati equivalent is)but if it does then the machine could probably handle it!

http://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/252875-hp-proliant-microserver-nas-7.html last comment guy has win 7 and PS3 media server installed and seemed quite happy with it. Didn't mention what files he was trans coding though! Can't you also pre-transcode stuff so it takes less CPU power to do it? I read something about that somewhere!

The thing is transcoding consists of decoding and encoding, decoding I think the machine should be fine as it would use CUDA with the on-board chip. The encoding bit would be done by the CPU no idea if it could handle 1080p. If you've already got one why not just try?
 
xrapidx said:
What I meant was would it be able to handle the decoding and streaming of 20GB MKVs :)

(I just ordered one)
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From where? I get redirected to a "Product not found" page when I browse to the original link iDOL posted.
 
SomeoneEls said:
It has and Ati HD4200 onboard not sure if PS3 MS uses CUDA (or whatever the ati equivalent is)but if it does then the machine could probably handle it!

http://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/252875-hp-proliant-microserver-nas-7.html last comment guy has win 7 and PS3 media server installed and seemed quite happy with it. Didn't mention what files he was trans coding though! Can't you also pre-transcode stuff so it takes less CPU power to do it? I read something about that somewhere!

The thing is transcoding consists of decoding and encoding, decoding I think the machine should be fine as it would use CUDA with the on-board chip. The encoding bit would be done by the CPU no idea if it could handle 1080p. If you've already got one why not just try?
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So just did a little googling post #214 in here http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/21662-linux-support/page__st__200 guy says
I'm running mine on a dual-core 1.3GHz AMD Neo box (HP Microserver), and it's well up to the task of transcoding 1080p MKV's using PS3 Media Server
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