Post your HP Proliant Microserver Setup here!

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As the title aks, please post your setup, ie OS, XMBC or BoXEE etc, extra ram, what gfx, and sound card if any, raid setup with which drives, any thing else that would be useful for would be micro server builders!
 
Hp micro server
1 x 250GB(Windows 7 partition + Downloads partition) This sits in the DVD bay with the parity drive
5 x 2TB drives with flexraid(1x2TB as parity drive, updates once a day in at 11:30PM)
3GB RAM(1GB + 2GB)
1 x 2 port sata card to support the extra drive(other port running to an esata slot) so i have 2 esata ports available(the standard one is hacked for full speed as well, for later expansion)
3 x eGreat media players flashed with the latest popcorn hour firmware with YAMJukebox as my media interface.
Downloads automated with Alt.binz to start ASAP via RSS, TV shows moved to correct folders with TVrename (3 times a day, 8AM 11:30AM 5:30PM) with YAMJ running 3 times a day 5 minutes after TVRename runs to keep my jukebox up to date!
 
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Firmware crack for full speed 5th port
5 * 2TB WD20EARS
1 * 2GB internal USB memory stick
stock RAM, but may upgrade later
running unRaid
 
1x 2TB Seagate, 1x 1TB Samsung, standard RAM and everything else, Windows 7. Living on the edge.
 
3 x 2TB seagate green for power saving
1 X 160GB with opensuse and virtualbox
2 x 4gb ecc kingston mem

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OS - XMBCFreakv2 (Ubuntu 11.04)
RAM - Standard (1GB)
GTX - Club3D GT520
Sound - Using GT520
Raid - None
HDD - 4 x 2TB WD Green
1 x 750GB Seagate ES
USB - 1 x 4GB USB for OS
Remote - ATi Remote Wonder
 
hereticangel said:
http://www.tenniswood.co.uk/technol...-mods-case-to-support-up-to-19tbs-internally/

19tb mirco server, wish i had that one :P
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As much as that is cool, you could get close to that without doing much modding..

4 x 3TB in the normal trays, 1 x 3TB in the slot under the dvd bay(only bit u may struggle with in terms of getting it in) and 1 x 3TB in the dvd bay. And you dont even need any extra sata card or any 2.5Bays :P
Giving you 18TB.

Thanks for the post though!
 
Microserver #1 - NAS
5x Seagate 2TB LP Drives configured as ZFS
2gb Ram
FreeNas 7 on 4gb USB Stick

Microserver #2 - vSphere 4.1
2x 250gb Seagate
1x 750gb Seagate
1x 1TB Seagate
8gb Ram
1x Dual Port Intel GB Nic

Microserver #3 - Win7/XBMC
Saphire 5450
1x 250gb Drive (Streaming from NAS and other boxes on Lan)
4gb Ram
MCE Remote and Keyboard
 
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Microserver #1 - NAS
4x Samsung 2TB ZFS
2x 1gb ecc Ram
FreeNas 7 on 4gb USB Stick

Microserver #2 - Media centre
1x 250gb Seagate(unused:confused:)
4gb Ram
1x Club 3D GT520
Openelec on 2GB USB Stick

Microserver #3 - Media centre
1x 250gb Seagate(unused:confused:)
4gb Ram
1x Asus GT210
Openelec on 2GB USB Stick
 
Not all mine, built with a few buddies, but so far:

5 x HP MS as NAS'

- unRAID v4.7 and v5r12-beta
- flashed BIOS
- 5 x 2TB Seagate 5900rpm
- 4GB RAM
- 4GB boot flash

3 x HP MS as media players

- openelec XBMC
- MSI GT520 GPU
- zero disks
- 4GB RAM
- 4GB bbot flash
 
jannievanzyl said:
Not all mine, built with a few buddies, but so far:

5 x HP MS as NAS'

- unRAID v4.7 and v5r12-beta
- flashed BIOS
- 5 x 2TB Seagate 5900rpm
- 4GB RAM
- 4GB boot flash

3 x HP MS as media players

- openelec XBMC
- MSI GT520 GPU
- zero disks
- 4GB RAM
- 4GB bbot flash
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Is 4GB of RAM really necessary when running unRaid?
 
bar1 said:
Is 4GB of RAM really necessary when running unRaid?
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Nah, don't think so. I've tried from 2GB to 8GB and, in each instance, the OS use all the RAM, like a good OS should. But I don't see a performance difference.

Why 8GB? At one point I considered FreeNAS and it really wants a full 4GB of RAM, so easiest was to stick 8GB in.
 
I used some normal low profile ram, be careful not to get anything that's an odd size(higher than normal) as there isn't much clearance inside!
 
I bought the HP ECC ram for the machine, got 3 of the 2Gig sticks if anyone interested
 
Currently its as follows.

2 x 2Tb Samsung (Will get another 2 at the end of the month)
ATI Powercolor 6450.
1 x 1Gb and 1 x 2Gb.
Ubuntu 11.04 with XBMC on 16Gb Flash drive.
 
Specs:

1x250GB HDD
2x4GB Ram (The microserver is the only machine at home that can use the spare DDR3, so I thought why the hell not)
GT210
Esquire mini-wireless keyboard

Will get a 1TB towards the end of the month.
 
P3wP3w said:
Specs:

1x250GB HDD
2x4GB Ram (The microserver is the only machine at home that can use the spare DDR3, so I thought why the hell not)
GT210
Esquire mini-wireless keyboard

Will get a 1TB towards the end of the month.
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How is the mini keyboard?
Whats the battery life like?
 
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