£100 Cashback on a £190 HP Micro Server

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Thats right, just a shame that I won't know if I'm returning to the UK until after this offer ends otherwise I'd be ordering two or three!

Original Credit to Simon @ Techhead for the heads up: http://www.techhead.co.uk/hp-proliant-microserver-sub-100

HP Direct Offer Link: http://h41112.www4.hp.com/promo/pro...=ex_r135_uk/en/smb/tsg/go_proliantmicroserver

ServersPlus have them at £190 (£90 after) - http://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/hp_tower_servers/612275-421 (no affiliation at all)

ServersDirect have them at £99.97 after cashback: http://www.serversdirect.co.uk/HP_ProLiant_Neo_N36L_Micro_Server__612275-421/version.asp (again no affiliation)

As Simon says, a nice little box for a test lab, or storage node, backup node, firewall...and on and on...

 

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Wow that is cheap. Might buy one just to install a firewall on it.

 

I have one at home and whilst it's nice it's not.... NICE. It's actually larger than my shuttle but obviously the fact that it holds more disks is why.

I am currently building it up as a Windows Storage Server with 5 disks (4 in the trays and one where the CDR goes). TBH I don't know if I would be get one again (I already have 4 Lenovo TS200's courtesy of Simon's blog).

 

At that price surely the "nice" sticker looks a little more shiny? Interested in you opinion on it Simon, tempted to order a couple incase I end up back there in March.

 

oh oh, soooo tempting to get this, would compliment my sc440's nicely. Not this pay packet though getting married on saturday and I'll need every penny of that for final costs! Maybe that'll be a xmas present to myself if they have any left by then.

 

wedding cant wait a couple of weeks? Come on man, priorities

 

Congrats!

 

Hi Ken, the server looks fantastic, and ideal for a FreeNAS or Debian server or simple VM's on top of ESXi of course, but the CPU is quite underpowered. I've been hunting but can't find good information on whether the CPU is replaceable. Could you, or someone else who has one of these units please confirm:
- is the CPU replaceable ?
- what would be the highest Athlon CPU that these systems could take (so that I know of possible upgrade paths if I wanted to give the system a bit more grunt) ?

I like being able to put 5 hard disks in as pointed out by another poster by remoing the DVD drive. I note from the HP page that the RAID chipset supports RAID-0 / RAID-1 but did not see RAID-5 mentioned. I expect it is probably not supported, but if anyone could confirm that would be appreciated ?

Thanks !

Roy.

 

Hi All,

I stumbled across this post, and forum! amongst others, during my quest to find some more information on peoples feedback and experiences using this piece of kit...

I'm after two boxes to replace my somewhat larger, noiser and hotter Dell PowerEdge T110 boxes at home (home lab).

Based on the running costs, lack of noise etc, these look ideal and I might even get away with leaving them on for prolonged periods without getting my ears chewed!!

I'd want to run them in an ESXi cluster on top of some shared iSCSI storage, so my only real requirement would be to max out the RAM (8GB per box) and put in some additional NICS.

I know the CPU and RAM are somewhat restrictive and I'm under no illusions that I'm going to have a full datacenter in there! I just need enough to run AD, Exchange, SQL, Citrix XenApp and Cisco Call Manager 8 with Unity... Again only Lab!

Does anyone know if its possible to up-spec the CPU? So many people have asked this in other forums but nobody seems to bite and reply... my educated guess would be no, but having worked in I.T. for so long, I know the old saying "where there's a will there's a way!" is so true

Thanks in advance

Andy