With the help of Ebay 15% Off, I am able to sharpen our prices today & offer this deal. Microserver lurkers please don't miss out. The Seagate NAS drive is at its lowest and is much lower than competitors with this offer. In addition it will be have extra $30 Cash back when you buy 2.
Use ebay 15% off code: CLICK15 before you checkout.
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Just curious, what os do you guys installed on this? Thanks for the sharing. Cheers.
Check out FreeNAS and Nas4free. I use Nas4free.
There are no drives in a Microserver, so there won't be an operating system.
ESXi6
then from there you can create virtual machines and have a dedicated Media Server, Dedicated download box, a back up server, etc etc etc.
NOTE: the only model you can have a video card in and pass through the video to a VM is the model with the Xeon chip.
Or buy this, and patiently scour the internet for a suitable Xeon chip.
I bought the Celeron, and upgraded to a 2nd hand 1220L from China for ~$200.
ive been trying to find the bastards, but they are few and far between…
Tell me about it!
There are a few other compatible Xeon processors, but extra cooling etc may be required.
What I liked about the 1220 is that it's wattage is lower than the stock celeron
@psy: i know. ive been scouring the internet for over a week looking for 1220L v2, 1260L and the 1265L v2, cant find shit. there was a 1220l v2 from amazon germany, but they want 600 Euro (WTF!?)
Been waiting for WD REDS 3-6TB's for a while. Any sale coming up on those?
WD Red Drives are up, best price in Australia - for my beloved ozbargain we tend to bend our arms and legs. Please show your support back :)
you've actually got the most expensive WD REDS prior to Ebay 15% discounts. Kinda like what Dicksmith does. But anyway.. I might bite.
We all know there's no margin on hard drives and there's listing fee on ebay, so hope you understand :).
Bought a G8! This has been long time coming!
Also waiting for some WD Red 4-6TB deals!
see reply above
If you buy a HP G8, this is the site you need: http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5639-proli…
Better than one of the NUC deals for running a home theatre setup, LAMP stack, and VMs?
Thanks
Clearly MicroServer Gen9 is around the corner. Russian shop: http://www.saronit.ru/catalog/hp-proliant-microserver-gen9
What? You do not speak Russian?! Seriously? OK, here is (proper, not Google) translation: "Coming soon, we are waiting for official distributor release".
Thanks Boris!
You are welcome, Bruce.
aww…. bought from Futu yesterday. Could have saved even more!
Purchased 4TB drives from here yesterday, Price drop today. Magical.
So how good are these things as a NAS compared to a standalone synology unit? And how hard to setup? I need to upgrade from a 2 bay NAS.
I have one of these with Synology DSM with 4x 3TB drive. Central location for my surveillance, download box and plex media.
Google Xpenology. It's essentially the same.
So the maximum is 4 x 4TB, or is bigger capacity drives supported or will be supported soon?
Try reading the comments on similar previous deals. Product specification not necessarily equals to actual product capacity. I might be wrong but I remember some hope tips from SteveAndBelle. Anyway you can have much more than 4x4 if you know how to play with internal USB ports, external USB ports and also op system sata.
I'm aware about the USB ports. I never got to put them to use in my 2 NAS appliances at home. I expect it to be the same should I go ahead with this one.
I use FreeNAS with 5x3TB disks. There's an internal SATA port designed for the optional DVD ROM drive that you can use. I just feed the SATA cable out the back and have the bare disk sitting on top. Not pretty, but my server is out of sight.
The caveat is you can't use the built-in HP RAID functionality for this extra port. I also believe this is where the 4TB limit comes from. No such limit applies if you turn off RAID and just use regular AHCI. This is what FreeNAS requires anyway.
You can mod and add another 2 drive , like here
http://homeservershow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gen8.pn…
Thanks a lot, just purchased a 6TB WD Red HDD
Great price!
Rep, how about Hitachi drives? Lowest failure rate according to Backblaze.
or WD Red Pro for that matter
I would also be keen for a couple HGST/Hitachi/Toshiba drives (4tb) 😃
Thanks Rep, bought the Seagate 4TB NAS HDD.
Thanks Rep, purchased, been waiting for this!
have a e3 1265 in mine with 16gb ram, and ssd plus 3 X 8 tb hdd, thing fly's
where you bought the Xeon proc?
the bay, and many German PC sites.
Can someone with the unit record the sound it emits at idle and upload it?
Thanks!
You have different cooling profiles in the BOIS, at the lowest , the thing at idle is 9% fan speed to which a spinning 3.5" NAS HDD is louder than.
Add Ram to the deal rep?
Pretty please?
I just bought the G8.
amazon has 16gb ecc kingston ram for $120 plus $5 ship all USD pricing, delivers to Aus.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008LMNHB8?psc=1&redirect=t…
Anybody else getting a 'HTTP 500' error when registering for cashback at: http://seagatespecials.com.au/cashback/ ???
I'll let you know once I have received my HDD and try to register for the cashback.
Hi,
Can anyone who purchased a Seagate NAS drive confirm what their S.M.A.R.T says about Raw_Read_Error_Rate ?
I've had my 4TB drive running for 48h in my Synology NAS and I noticed the raw data value of Raw_Read_Error_Rate was 71,000,000
I freaked out at first but read that the raw value isn't how many errors but simply how many sectors the heads have read, can someone confirm what their value is?
Do you have deal for HP PS1810-8G as well?