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HP Microserver G1610T $259 + WD Red & Purple HDD Combo Deals, Buy Any 2 for Free Shipping @ Shopping Express
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Store RepShoppingExpress on 20/01/2016 - 11:01 shoppingexpress.com.au (2408 clicks)
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We still receive many requests for microserver deals so here it is - HP G8 G1610T @ $259, buy any 2 item in the sale and receive free shipping for your order. There's a further 10% off WD Purple drives when you buy with HP Microserver/Server.
Weak AUD makes it harder for us to come up with today's Microserver & Hard Drive pricing so please don't miss out on this one.

  • Buy any 2 item below for Free Shipping
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  • More stock of Kingston 8GB ECC non reg RAM for Microserver - $95 has been made available at 9:45am 21-1-16 - earliest dispatch time for orders that include them will be friday 22-1-16

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  • sp3ctr41 on 20/01/2016 - 11:22
    +7

    Best deal you can get for the HP G8 period, gonna cost you more to build a DIY NAS, thanks rep!

    • IJustKnowStuff on 20/01/2016 - 11:42
      +1

      Am I missing something in this list called HP G8?

      • sp3ctr41 on 20/01/2016 - 11:59
        +2

        HP G8 G1610T*

        Basically a full blown PC, just use the OS FreeNAS.

        Also just a heads up, you can only do RAID 0 and 1 on this.

        Youll need the P222 card for other setups if its required.

        • Kambo_Rambo on 20/01/2016 - 12:32
          +3

          but im sure you can do software raids like ZFS within FreeNAS?

        • sp3ctr41 on 20/01/2016 - 12:41
          +1

          @Kambo_Rambo: yea not a deal breaker just thought its worth mentioning.

    • chukkii on 20/01/2016 - 14:27
      +1

      But for another $40 you can get the G3240 which features a better processor and double the RAM!

      • sp3ctr41 on 20/01/2016 - 15:00
        +2

        Depends on what you need it for, if the G8 suits your purposes then its smaller, sleeker and more efficient on power.

        • megadeth on 20/01/2016 - 21:04

          Deleted… incorrect comment

      • magic8ballgag on 20/01/2016 - 18:09
        +1

        Bigger isn't always better, most home users will prefer a small form factor.

        • here2rock on 21/01/2016 - 10:27

          +1 For a NAS, you don't want a massive box. I bought G1610T a few months ago, I am looking to get a second one to back up the first one!

  • sengork on 20/01/2016 - 11:25

    Thanks OP. Do either of the listed servers come with ECC RAM?

    • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 20/01/2016 - 11:30

      yes, they all come with ECC RAM.

  • Unrvl on 20/01/2016 - 11:35

    can you do us any cheap 4TB green or normal drives?

    • Store RepShoppingExpress @ Shopping Express on 20/01/2016 - 11:41
      +1

      Sorry to inform you that WD Green drives have been merged with Blue drives since last year, so we can't get them anymore.

      We are only offering limited stock of Red & Purple drives today to sell with the HP.

      • camjl on 20/01/2016 - 23:12

        So would you say these 'new' larger blues eg 4TB are more/less reliable then the reds in a raid?

  • goatwomble on 20/01/2016 - 11:35
    +3

    How suitable would one of these be for use with Plex?

    • igoforthebest on 20/01/2016 - 11:39
      +4

      Using G1610T as a plex server. No issues so far…

    • sallan75 on 20/01/2016 - 11:39
      +2

      I run Plex on a HP N40L. Depends if it needs to transcode much and how many people are streaming from it.

    • flagger on 20/01/2016 - 11:46

      Also using Plex on a G1610T with 2GB ram/Windows Server 2012 R2 with no problems.

    • Unrvl on 20/01/2016 - 11:48

      spend the little extra on the ML10 ones. the pentium cpu is quite a bit faster, and it also most likely has more room for more hard drives.

      my servers celeron cpu is slightly better than the one in the G1610T and only just handles plex @ 1080p mkv

    • Cozza38 on 20/01/2016 - 12:54
      +2

      Plex recommends a CPU passmark score of 2000 per 1080p transcode. The G1610T comes in at 2352, so you won't be giving yourself much headroom if you need to transcode but you should be mostly okay.

      http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+G1610T…

    • goatwomble on 20/01/2016 - 13:52

      Ok, ordered the ML10. Will see how that goes.

    • OxfordMD on 20/01/2016 - 14:27

      I bought 2 G161OT's (one for me and one for my parents) from a shopping express deal last year and both work fine as plex servers. No problem with transcoding and I have had no problems streaming to 2 devices simultaneously over WiFi.

  • ashanrath on 20/01/2016 - 11:48
    +18

    Shit, my wife is going to kill me.

    • sallan75 on 20/01/2016 - 11:49
      +9

      Yeah that's the reason I am resisting :(

    • systmworks on 20/01/2016 - 13:03
      +7

      Better to ask forgiveness than permission.. just tell her it's to safely back up all her photos.

      • sallan75 on 20/01/2016 - 14:13
        +1

        That's my usual tactic. She is still dirty I got a second Xbox One last month in the Target sale. Best off waiting a few more months :)

        • alvian on 20/01/2016 - 14:47
          +3

          The second Xbox One is for the children, isn't it? You two better get busy and stop reading OzB condom posts.

      • Utopian on 20/01/2016 - 15:05

        Been there, done that.
        Did Not End Well.

        • Damonator84 on 20/01/2016 - 16:35
          +2

          Straight off the bat, she said what are you doing with the old one…. Hahahahaha

      • Jayjay93 on 20/01/2016 - 17:41

        Back-up all photos.

        Exactly what I said to bought theN54L during last sales from shopping express =D

        • Damonator84 on 20/01/2016 - 18:31
          +1

          HaHa she knows it doesn't take a whole server to backup photos… esp when she has a 4TB hdd portable to backup onto haha

        • mattyman on 21/01/2016 - 11:20

          @Damonator84: But with something like OwnCloud on FreeNAS you can automate that.

        • Damonator84 on 21/01/2016 - 12:03

          @mattyman:
          …good ol robocopy does the trick

  • Xizor on 20/01/2016 - 11:53

    For a basic user who only experience with windows and has about 15TB of crap at the moment in a big external hdd caddy…. how would you suggest they set one of these up?

    • sp3ctr41 on 20/01/2016 - 12:21
      +4

      Firstly, I assume that 15TB is only split into 4 drives. Keep in mind this can only accept 4 HDDs.

      Secondly, this is just a PC which you can load with Windows, but its primary use is NAS, there are a ton of operating systems you can use for NAS. Here's a few:

      •FreeNAS (BSD based NAS)
      •Xpenology ( Synology rip off NAS)
      •Rockstor ( CentOS based NAS)
      •Open Media Vault

      I recommend FreeNAS, heres a tutorial specifically for this product: https://blog.monstermuffin.org/installing-freenas-on-a-hp-mi…

      • t25 on 20/01/2016 - 12:45

        I keep getting error messages about my USB drive when installing FreeNAS. Anything that I should look out for?

        • sp3ctr41 on 20/01/2016 - 12:55
          +1

          Not really, have you seen this?
          https://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_install.html

          You may find what your looking for under the "Preparing the Media" section.

        • t25 on 20/01/2016 - 13:42

          @sp3ctr41: yes i have. its wierd because ive followed the steps exactly, but still to no avail.

          and here i am wondering if i should use something else like xpenology, or rockstor (if i can install on an USB drive)

      • Xizor on 20/01/2016 - 12:53
        +1

        Thanks. What is this stuff in that tutorial about ODD emulator, iLO etc? Way over my head.

        • sp3ctr41 on 20/01/2016 - 13:17
          +1

          ODD emulator: Optical Disk Drive emulator, normally you'd burn the image to a disk, however you don't have a DVD reader so you have to create a bootable USB, can easily do it with this tool too: https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer

          iLO (Integrated Lights Out) is simply a method to control your HP G8 on the hardware level so you don't have to connect a monitor to it to set it up and can instead do it from another PC.

        • bassmaniac69 on 20/01/2016 - 13:46
          +2

          @sp3ctr41:

          Thanks mate, I'm not in the market for a server yet but up voted for your replies and have saved everything for when I do in the next few months.

        • Xizor on 20/01/2016 - 14:29

          Thanks. Might just keep using my current HDD bay connected to PC and videostream for the time being but this is on my radar at some point.

        • sp3ctr41 on 20/01/2016 - 15:04

          @bassmaniac69: Happy to help.

    • sallan75 on 20/01/2016 - 14:53
      +4

      If you are happy to keep using Windows check out Stablebit Drivepool.

      • tazmaniak on 20/01/2016 - 16:11

        ^This. I love it.

        • Xizor on 20/01/2016 - 16:42

          What is your setup with it if you don't mind sharing insight?

        • tazmaniak on 20/01/2016 - 19:10

          @Xizor:
          My dad and I both use it with a bunch of random drives (4+ each of various sizes). We like it because you just have one virtual drive with all your data in it, but it's also duplicated between disks (if you enable that).
          So if a drive dies you don't lose data. The extra bonus is that it's all in a standard NTFS file system so if a major problem occurs your data is still accessible.
          We also use Stablebit Scanner from the same company - it keeps an eye on your hdd's and emails you if one is about to die. Great bit of kit. When we first got it we identified about 5 drives between us in various states of failure. Especially external hdd's (of course).

        • Xizor on 20/01/2016 - 22:12

          @tazmaniak:

          Much appreciated! What do you have the drives in? i.e. PC, NAS, micro-pc, external caddy/bay?

        • tazmaniak on 21/01/2016 - 12:55

          @Xizor: Just an old PC. Really tempted to get a microserver, but now I've realised I actually have 5x 2TB, 1x 4TB, an ODD and an SSD. LOL.

          So they won't fit. :(

      • Xizor on 20/01/2016 - 16:41

        That is very interesting! Thank you. Are you using it?

        • sallan75 on 21/01/2016 - 09:04

          Yes I am using it. I have a HP N40L with WHS 2011 installed. These Micro Servers don't support RAID5 so I was using Windows RAID. For various reasons the RAID volume would need to resync the disks. So I never felt confident that it could handle a 1 disk failure.

          So I did the 30 day demo of DrivePool and it was exactly what I was looking for. Was happy to part with my $30 USD for it.

          You can use drives of any size. Currently have 3 x 3TB and 1 x 4TB in my pool. Slowly swapping the 3TB out, but you can mix and match any size.

          DrivePool isn't RAID, but you can duplicate files across drives in the pool. You can do this at a folder level and can actually set as many copies as you want. If you have a folder like a temp where you dump stuff you don't care about, then you don't even have to duplicate it.

          As files are duplicated across multiple disk, read operations take advantage of this. So can give similar performance to RAID.

          The only thing I don't like so far is that a new virtual drive is created when you create a pool, but all physical drives are still visible and accessible. Would be good if they were hidden, but is probably more of a Windows thing.

        • Xizor on 21/01/2016 - 10:30

          @sallan75:

          Cheers. It sounds like it would suite my needs. I have most of my HDD in a 8-bay hotway box which from all reports are dodgy, but i have had no problems with it via USB3.0 - I woould prefer to put the drives in something more, uh, reputable/safe but i really need something that can handle 6 drives, is not too pricey, and simple to setup. Never had a proper NAS or used any NAS software i just use videostream at the moment. Really not sure what is optimal for my needs… another year, more indecision i think!

      • Unrvl on 20/01/2016 - 17:28

        i used to use something similar to this - Drive Bender a few years ago, it worked great. then when i installed new windows i got lazy and used windows storage spaces. i now regret this and as soon as i can buy more temporary storage, i will wipe that and go to drivepool.

        • Agret on 21/01/2016 - 01:58

          What's wrong with Windows Storage Spaces?

  • yeohkt on 20/01/2016 - 11:54

    Could we get QNAP offer ? looking for 4 bay 451+

  • hadji on 20/01/2016 - 12:07

    Anyone know if HP N40L will accept WD Red 6TB?

  • atlas on 20/01/2016 - 12:18

    So my current N40L is maxed out at the moment with 4x4tb. Should I get another server or is there some USB dock option to add additional storage?

    • bleugh on 20/01/2016 - 12:32

      I've personally added a few USB drives to 'archive' little used stuff,
      haven't used the 5th drive slot yet (optical)
      should be able to easily get 5 drives inside the thing - 2TB and 4x4 if you use the modded bios

      • AlexF on 20/01/2016 - 22:04

        2TB and 4x4 if you use the modded bios

        Don't need BIOS mod. By default, ODD's ACHI port is performing PATA emulation, which is slower than SATA mode. However, in NAS RAID configurations, the Gb port is saturated, so, HDD speed difference is irrelevant.

    • OccasionalBargainer on 20/01/2016 - 12:37
      +1

      Jam another 3 x 3.5" HDD into the Optical bay and use the optical bay sata port and a low profile x2 Sata controller card.

      I've got 6x 4TB + 120GB SSD in my N40L.

      • Xizor on 20/01/2016 - 12:54

        What o/s are you using to do all this?

        • OccasionalBargainer on 20/01/2016 - 14:17
          +1

          Ubuntu with a ZFS array

        • Kaboda on 20/01/2016 - 14:30

          I am on Windows 10 if that matters. Using the optical Bay and the esata to sata cable (powered).

        • Damonator84 on 20/01/2016 - 15:10

          @Kaboda: Don't forget to use all the usb pets for all the amazon $190 4tb hdds :D

        • Kaboda on 20/01/2016 - 17:02
          +1

          @Damonator84: got four 8tb archive hard disks in them. Damn shopping express deals.

    • atlas on 20/01/2016 - 13:02

      Thanks for the tips. I have actually been archiving less-frequently used stuff to an 8tb Archive drive that sits inside my desktop PC but I see this as a manual temporary measure.

      Already have the 5th optical sata port occupied by an SSD as well.

      So it looks like options available are either installing a PCI sata controller card, or it seems like the external esata port is actually compatible with port multipliers. This means that a 4-bay esata enclosure is a viable option. These seem to range in price from $100-180 with a range of favourable/unfavourable reviews… so the question then becomes - should I just spend an extra $100+ and get another server?

      • OccasionalBargainer on 20/01/2016 - 14:32

        The problem with just getting 'another server' is just that! its another physical box. which you then need to setup/maintain separately to your first N40L. Unless you can separate the uses of these servers (say like computer backups on one and home photos/videos/media on the other) i can see it just becoming a hassle.

        I've filled my N40L almost completely, so I am actually looking at what my next move is in expanding my home storage. I was also thinking of getting another N40L but decided against it. I am currently leaning towards a 24 Bay rackmount server (case alone is $500ish) which will future proof my storage needs for many years to come

    • Kaboda on 20/01/2016 - 14:29
      +1

      Use the esata to sata cable and the DVD rom drive for an extra two drives.

  • macca on 20/01/2016 - 12:21
    +5

    If looking at WD Purple / Red / Whatever, here's a good link https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Understanding-the…

    • zenzeninbox on 20/01/2016 - 15:49

      Thanks Macca great article.

  • PeppaCat on 20/01/2016 - 12:21

    3 years ago, I bought 3 WD Red 3T for MSY, each is $153.

    For now it's 165..LOL..

    • battler on 20/01/2016 - 12:32

      you can thank the Aussie dollar for that.

    • CLoSeR on 20/01/2016 - 12:41

      Yep exchange rates; I'm running 4x 3TB WD RED in my Synology.

  • bdubba on 20/01/2016 - 12:28
    +2

    Great deal, I picked a microserver up for this price in the Boxing Day sale and swapped out the CPU for a Xeon E3-1260L and put in 16gb of RAM and its became an incredibly decent system.

    • rygle on 21/01/2016 - 06:55

      Which model?

      • bdubba on 21/01/2016 - 12:30

        The g1610T G8 Microserver :)

    • hongd on 31/01/2016 - 21:29

      How to swap out? I prefer Xeon too to get lower power utlization but Xeon microserver is hard to find

      • bdubba on 01/02/2016 - 09:01

        Just took the g1620t processor out and put the Xeon in, pretty easy! Plenty of CPU swaps guides on YouTube if you're worried about it.

  • rokkz on 20/01/2016 - 12:35

    This with a xeon 1265l v2 is a killer server, plex HD to three plus rooms, no problem.

  • droodle on 20/01/2016 - 12:53

    whats the upgradability of the HP ML10 G3240 ? memory ? CPU ?

  • bigfec on 20/01/2016 - 13:21

    will Windows 10 install on the ML?

  • dealman on 20/01/2016 - 13:28

    Hey Guys,
    I am interested in setting up a NAS to hold upto 8 GB of Photos and Media files.

    This is what I'd be using it for.

    1) As a network Drive to backup photos and misc data.
    2) Drive to store movies and Documentaries so they can be seen on TV.

    Which of these NAS servers would do you recommend ?

    Thanks

    • Damonator84 on 20/01/2016 - 13:39
      +2

      G8

    • podilamaya on 20/01/2016 - 13:43
      +1

      ANY NAS should OK for your requirement. but I would recommend this server as it more versatile and an can use for other purposes, if you change your requirements.

    • ShortyX on 20/01/2016 - 14:14
      +2

      8GB of Photos and Media files

      You could just use a USB stick for 8GB. ;)

      • dealman on 20/01/2016 - 14:15

        Sorry mate 8 TB

        • Kaboda on 20/01/2016 - 19:28

          Comes in one drive now a days with the Seagate archive so depends how much you wish to 'invest'.

  • lang_tu_syd on 20/01/2016 - 13:41

    Hi guys, how does this GT1610T compare to a N54L?

  • Bredo on 20/01/2016 - 14:06
    +1

    Great server, I've got mine in the boxing day sale too. Swapped the micro for a mighty Intel Xeon E3-1270v2 3.5 GHz Processor and 16gb of RAM :)

    • podilamaya on 20/01/2016 - 15:22

      same here, got Server from boxing day sale. 16GB Memory from amazon deal. now waiting for my Intel xeon 1260L to be delivered. now tempting have 6TB red drives, but need to live at home :-)

    • bdubba on 21/01/2016 - 12:33

      You'll be pushing close to the PSU limits with that CPU wouldn't you? How's your experience been?

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