HP ProLiant MicroServer

zamicro said:
You either want the best card that the machine can support (as the prices differ minimally) or you do not need a card at all.



Depends on what? (Except cost)
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Prices do not differ minimally. HD5450/GT210 are substantially cheaper than GT520/610.

And a GT520/610 is overkill for an HTPC that just plays media, therefore no need to spend the +-R150 extra. It is however the best card for the machine, if that tickles your fancy.
 
I get why PP was asking about the use of the machine, as I wouldn't even be querying GFX cards if it was gonna be used as a NAS.
 
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Hallo again people.
Need some advice on Couchpotato on my HPMS.
Been running for about 2 years now, and I cannot seem to get the downloaded movies (CouchPotato integrated with SABnzbd) to move to my 'movie' drive the files just stay in the downloaded folder...
Series work flawlessly from SickBeard, they download, move and rename on the fly ..
Halp :P
 
Anthro said:
Hallo again people.
Need some advice on Couchpotato on my HPMS.
Been running for about 2 years now, and I cannot seem to get the downloaded movies (CouchPotato integrated with SABnzbd) to move to my 'movie' drive the files just stay in the downloaded folder...
Series work flawlessly from SickBeard, they download, move and rename on the fly ..
Halp :P
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I've goty sabznbd configured under downloaders with the category set to movies. The movies category in sabnzbd is set the same as the download folder under Renaming with destination somewhere else.

Folder naming is <namethe> (<year>)

File naming is <thename> <quality> <cd>.<ext>

Might have to check permissions on your folders too
 
Forgetting to mention im running Openelec. - this plays a major role.

Will try your suggestion though :) Tx !

Might have to check permissions on your folders too
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See above.. not sure how:D
 
Anthro said:
Hallo again people.
Need some advice on Couchpotato on my HPMS.
Been running for about 2 years now, and I cannot seem to get the downloaded movies (CouchPotato integrated with SABnzbd) to move to my 'movie' drive the files just stay in the downloaded folder...
Series work flawlessly from SickBeard, they download, move and rename on the fly ..
Halp :P
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First things first, remember that CP and SB should be responsible for the download once it completes. Check your mount points are still correct, the permisisons of the user under which both SABnzbd and SB run under have read/write access to the directory.

To check permissions, firstly see which user is running sickbeard/sabnzbd
ps aux | grep sabnzbd ; ps aux | grep couchpotato
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You should see a these services running under a user - type
groups <user>
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from which you will get a list of groups
Now type
ls -al /path/to/sabnzbd/movies/download/dir
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Which will list the directory contents. It should match either the user or a group of the aforementioned services.
if it doesnt, i suggest adding both service users to a group, e.g. users
usermod -aG users <service_user>
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or changing the owner of the directory
chmod -R user:group /movie/dir
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Note that many of these commands are required to be run as sudo/su
 
Dam this thread is still going , ok So i got 1 N36L Love it 5 drivers all 2 tb getting my 2nd the week end , I see that it is the N40L Nice few little changes to it.

Any way they been out for a while got some mixed info on them, looking for the correct info.

Going to install win 7 on this one as need to run a few windows apps :P Want to decomm my p4 download pc.
Which is my current mail sever , vm with ip cop (firewall) , ps3 media server , few other things running there.

going to take out the 250 gig and put on the esata and boot from there is this possible ??

and then 4 x 2 tb in the bottom no raid needed will this work ...?

Any bios updates or hacks i would need to do ...?

Any help will be help full :-)
 
OK, so I am struggling to find stock on any GT210 and even GT520 cards.
Anyone know where I can find stock on a GT210 - preferably passive heatsink?
 
CodeMaster said:
OK, so I am struggling to find stock on any GT210 and even GT520 cards.
Anyone know where I can find stock on a GT210 - preferably passive heatsink?
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Both my cards have heatsink+fan. Don't know where to get passive ones, but looks like Takealot does have stock of these Gigabyte ones if you run out of options.
 
i think the ones with the heatsink might not fit depending on the heatsink size
 
I have a Gigabyte HD5450 with a fan and I can not hear it above the system fan. 2TB hard drive spinning is way louder. Works great for video and sound under Windows 7 and XBMC through HDMI to Yamaha receiver.
 
Cirdan said:
I have a Gigabyte HD5450 with a fan and I can not hear it above the system fan. 2TB hard drive spinning is way louder. Works great for video and sound under Windows 7 and XBMC through HDMI to Yamaha receiver.
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Do you mind sending me your config(s) I cannot get my 5450 to work :))
 
@CodeMaster
rodga said:
i think the ones with the heatsink might not fit depending on the heatsink size
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This.
Esquire had stock of the GT520 .
You need an actively cooled one to fit or you will have to get busy with a dremmel tool on the heat sink of the passively cooled one.
 
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