HP ProLiant MicroServer

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I'm using WHS 2011 but did'nt have any LAN issues. I have read that windows server 2008 drivers work fine with WHS though.
 
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Think I potentially made the worst purchase ever :( Had some cash so decided to upgrade from the standard TV speakers. I ordered a set of Logitech Z506 speakers and a Vantec nba-200U USB soundcard from my suppliers. They never had the Vantec so went for a Zalman ZM-RSSC V2 because it was in stock.

THIS THING SUCKS. Barely supported by Windows 7. Secondly, does anyone know how to emulate MP3 sound from music/tvs/movies to come out all 5.1 channels? I've been trying every method I know without any results. The quality is not that much of a concern, I just want all the speakers to work! Here's a link to the product: http://zalman.co.kr/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=348

TIA! :)
 
squirrel said:
Think I potentially made the worst purchase ever :( Had some cash so decided to upgrade from the standard TV speakers. I ordered a set of Logitech Z506 speakers and a Vantec nba-200U USB soundcard from my suppliers. They never had the Vantec so went for a Zalman ZM-RSSC V2 because it was in stock.

THIS THING SUCKS. Barely supported by Windows 7. Secondly, does anyone know how to emulate MP3 sound from music/tvs/movies to come out all 5.1 channels? I've been trying every method I know without any results. The quality is not that much of a concern, I just want all the speakers to work! Here's a link to the product: http://zalman.co.kr/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=348

TIA! :)
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Try this.
 
Okay so I've bought two new 3TB Drives. I'm also buying the new N40L soon.

Apparently, any drive over 2.2TB needs to be formatted with GPT and not the MBR partition table, for windows to "see" anything over 2.2TB.
Now, I've read that GPT is only accessible from Windows Vista/7, but that only applies when you want to BOOT from it, or something....

So, my question is, will OpenELEC be able to access a 3TB Drive formatted as GPT + NTFS (keep in mind, not as the actual boot drive)
Drive1: 2TB (EXT)
Drive2: 3TB (GPT NTFS)
Drive3: 3TB (GPT NTFS)
Drive4: 2TB (MBR NTFS)

also, will the N36L HP Microserver's mobo be able to read a 3TB Drive, if not, will the N40L?


Last question: does the N40L also have a BIOS hack to use the DVD Drive's SATA, or am I out of luck?
 
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Keeper said:
Okay so I've bought two new 3TB Drives. I'm also buying the new N40L soon.

Apparently, any drive over 2.2TB needs to be formatted with GPT and not the MBR partition table, for windows to "see" anything over 2.2TB.
Now, I've read that GPT is only accessible from Windows Vista/7, but that only applies when you want to BOOT from it, or something....

So, my question is, will OpenELEC be able to access a 3TB Drive formatted as GPT + NTFS (keep in mind, not as the actual boot drive)
Drive1: 2TB (EXT)
Drive2: 3TB (GPT NTFS)
Drive3: 3TB (GPT NTFS)
Drive4: 2TB (MBR NTFS)

also, will the N36L HP Microserver's mobo be able to read a 3TB Drive, if not, will the N40L?


Last question: does the N40L also have a BIOS hack to use the DVD Drive's SATA, or am I out of luck?
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I can't say for sure on the N36L, but the N40L can definitely read/write to 3tb disks ( I have a box with four of them )

In your case, is there a special reason you want to use NTFS? Are you dual booting the system with windows?

I don't imagine there would be a problem with OpenELEC reading the drives, but writing to them is often an issue with complex setups.

Your last question, I don't quite understand. The motherboard has a SATA port that works at 1.5gbps in IDE mode ( which is no problem for hard drives or DVD drives, causes a performance hit on SSDs ), there is a hack ( firmware update ) to push it to AHCI with full speed though, and as I recall, newer N40L's come with the updated firmware out of the box.

I would strongly suggest that you begin to look at some sort of redundancy plan though, you've got a set of big disks there that could quite possibly fail on you. Don't know about you, but that kind of thing keeps me up at night, and is why I've setup ZFS on both my microservers ( one with 4x3tb and one with 4x2tb ) - Coming to a total of 15tb of redundant storage.
 
I use NTFS because then I can always access them in windows, If I wanted.
copying is a little slower, but thats ok.
(I might also move into a win7 setup one day, because I want hyperspin on the HTPC as well.)

If you verify it works on the N40L, great!
I'm going to test the GPT partitioned 3TB on the N36L in a few hours though, for science.

Also thanks for answering my other question about running a 5th drive on the DVD Drive's SATA port, glad I don't have to hack the bios!


The thing about redundancy though..
1) I havent had a drive fail on me in years
2) I don't know much about RAID/ZFS/unRaid/etc, especially with OpenELEC on the same box.
3) I upgrade drives every now and again (like now, swapping two of my five 2TB drives for two new 3TB drives) - this wouldn't be fun with a raid setup I presume...


Anyway, thanks for answering my questions
I'll post whether a 3TB on GPT + NTFS works on the N36L soon, if anyone wants to know for certain.
 
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Keeper said:
I use NTFS because then I can always access them in windows, If I wanted.
copying is a little slower, but thats ok.
(I might also move into a win7 setup one day, because I want hyperspin on the HTPC as well.)

If you verify it works on the N40L, great!
I'm going to test the GPT partitioned 3TB on the N36L in a few hours though, for science.

Also thanks for answering my other question about running a 5th drive on the DVD Drive's SATA port, glad I don't have to hack the bios!


The thing about redundancy though..
1) I havent had a drive fail on me in years
2) I don't know much about RAID/ZFS/unRaid/etc, especially with OpenELEC on the same box.
3) I upgrade drives every now and again (like now, swapping two of my five 2TB drives for two new 3TB drives) - this wouldn't be fun with a raid setup I presume...


Anyway, thanks for answering my questions
I'll post whether a 3TB on GPT + NTFS works on the N30L soon, if anyone wants to know for certain.
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/mmm wonders what keeper will be doing with his old drives.....:whistle:
 
Keeper said:
I use NTFS because then I can always access them in windows, If I wanted.
copying is a little slower, but thats ok.
(I might also move into a win7 setup one day, because I want hyperspin on the HTPC as well.)

If you verify it works on the N40L, great!
I'm going to test the GPT partitioned 3TB on the N36L in a few hours though, for science.

Also thanks for answering my other question about running a 5th drive on the DVD Drive's SATA port, glad I don't have to hack the bios!


The thing about redundancy though..
1) I havent had a drive fail on me in years
2) I don't know much about RAID/ZFS/unRaid/etc, especially with OpenELEC on the same box.
3) I upgrade drives every now and again (like now, swapping two of my five 2TB drives for two new 3TB drives) - this wouldn't be fun with a raid setup I presume...


Anyway, thanks for answering my questions
I'll post whether a 3TB on GPT + NTFS works on the N36L soon, if anyone wants to know for certain.
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The cool thing about ZFS is that you can just slip new drives in and it will automatically work out the most convenient storage solution for them.

You can have an array of four disks, 2x2tb and 2x3tb and it will automatically store the files in a way that would maximize space and redundancy. Later, you can take a 2tb out and put a 3tb in ( and let it rebuild! ) and then it will once again work things out.

Cool thing is that you can add another drive to the pool ( 2x2tb and 3x2tb ) and it will once more just expand the base volumes storage space.

Not having a drive fail in years is a great reason to go ahead and set up a redundant storage system though! Imagine what happens when that drive does fail. At my highest monthly usage ( 400gb ), it would take me half a year to re-collect everything that I'd lost.

Just don't make your next post "How do I recover a damaged hard disk?" :P
 
OK, I checked now.
3TB on GPT (GUID Partition Table) + NTFS file system works 100% out the box on OpenELEC, even on the older N36L model. Great success! :love:

BTW, they are going for R1582 Incl VAT @ PC International in Randburg. (They sell to the General Public, too)
(Remember, this is for 7200RPM, 64MB Cache SATA 3 Seagate drives)
 
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OK, I checked now.
3TB on GPT (GUID Partition Table) + NTFS file system works 100% out the box on OpenELEC, even on the older N36L model. Great success! :love:

BTW, they are going for R1582 Incl VAT @ PC International in Randburg. (They sell to the General Public, too)
(Remember, this is for 7200RPM, 64MB Cache SATA 3 Seagate drives)
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Fantastic news! :)

Thanks for taking that plunge and actually testing something out. I'm sure that more than a few people here have bought 2tb disks instead of 3tb ones in fear that they might not be compatible

If it were up to me though, as storage disks I'd have used the Western Digital Green drives, they're ~R20 more than Seagates, but consume a bunch less power and run at a slightly slower speed, which doesn't matter so much when it's just for storage.

Congrats on the disk, I still worry for your data though.. :P
 
I want 4 x 3TB :(

I see prices are slowly dropping however. 2TB drives at Esquire have been over R900 ex vat for a while, now they below 900. Good signs.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I want 4 x 3TB :(

I see prices are slowly dropping however. 2TB drives at Esquire have been over R900 ex vat for a while, now they below 900. Good signs.
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4x3TB is overrated unless you can really use it.

That said, my 4x3 box only now has 1.7tb free, I'm going to have to migrate some of my data to the other server, or toss another 3tb disk in to the array.
 
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4x3TB is overrated unless you can really use it.

That said, my 4x3 box only now has 1.7tb free, I'm going to have to migrate some of my data to the other server, or toss another 3tb disk in to the array.
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Didn't take me too long to fill 4 x 2TB and I can only fit about another 4 drives into my NAS, so may as well go as big as I can.

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Pacman is amper vol.
 
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Didn't take me too long to fill 4 x 2TB and I can only fit about another 4 drives into my NAS, so may as well go as big as I can.
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Then you really want those hitachi monsters :P

.. R4k~ for a single disk is a bit steep though, but in the long run..
 
What's the best way to convert the folder structure into a decent text file? Running FreeNAS
 
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