Storage The HP Micro Server Thread

I picked up a Samsung 8GB DDR3 stick from ebay for £60, works perfectly fine.

Sam

 

Still over a ton for 16gb . I tried some RAM that was confirmed compatible with the G7 which was 60 quid for 16gb but no joy in the G8

 

Ordered myself a Xeon E3-1220v2 from France, Just waiting for it's delivery.

Sam

 

Out of interest how much was it?

 

My RAID card has two mini-SAS ports, each capable of handling four drives each.

What's to stop me dropping in one of these or similar, and running a mahoosive array?

 

Nothing really other than price and availability of large 2.5mm drives.

 

I meant inch ofc

 

In G7, nothing. In G8 your plan will fail due the non-existence of 5.25" bay.

 

My microserver is nothing more than a NAS and Print server at the moment, with some light media duties, so it isn't being unduly taxed - I don't need a swanky G8, no matter how much I want one.

I might have access to a bunch of lightly used 1TB 2.5" HDDs through a friend, and I'm just toying with ideas while I wait to hear from him.

 

£146 inc Delivery, And i think is due to arrive today with DPD. This is the listing however: Ebay

Hope that helps.

Sam

 

OK, so I found it impossible to resist the latest Gen8 cashback offer.

I was surprised to find the FDD power plug in the ODD bay though, and even more surprised when I saw how much people were willing to charge for a FDD -> SATA power adapter.

Anyhwere from £6 to £16!

Anyhoo, I knocked up this little doohickey so I can run an SSD in the ODD bay:

 

Or you could have just pulled out the molex connector from the bellow the ODD bay and put a molex to SATA power adapter & splitter.

 

Haha, didn't notice that. Ah well, it only took ten minutes.

 

For others, i talk about this :
http://www.garydanton.co.uk/2016/01/hp-gen8-microserver-power-for-additional-hdd/

 

I have mine on the way, I will go with whichever method I find the appropriate components for first... Thanks for the link faugusztin.

 

For those looking for the ultra low wattage Xeons, there is a 17 Watt E3-1220L V2 on the bay right now.

ebay clicky

Too rich for me, I'm afraid.

 

Yay I can join in now thanks to Spreadie So far all I have managed to do is get some drives together (4 X 1TB WD Greens)



I really shouldn't be doing this at work lol

 

Yep, should be fine. Just making use of what I have going spare. To be fair I have always used identical drives in arrays! Well that's what I was taught to do