Everyone's favourite HP G8 MicroServer is back to $260 delivered.
If you need RAM, Amazon has decent pricing at about $113 USD delivered for 16gb: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-DDR3L-1600MT-PC3-12800-CT2KIT1…
8gb RAM here: http://m.ebay.com.au/itm/Kingston-8GB-1600MHz-DDR3-Desktop-P…
Would this handle running as a Minecraft server?
Yes.
Looks good, So THis is an empty Nas / Server, we have to then buy Hard disks to go into this right ? to make this into a NAS.
Plus an operating system of some kind.
freenas, rockstor, xpenology.
just learnt to install xpenology and its brilliant.
xpenology have any issues with upgrades and so forth?
@dcarbonetti: i only just installed it less than 36hours ago. im still very very new to all this. infact, im still trying to find out how to use the NAS properly.
correct
not sure about favourite.
it sounds pretty good until u get a closer look.
weak celeron,
weak PSU
2GB of RAM.
size is nice, but could build something similar for close to asking price. its basically mobo/cpu/psu in a case , nothing more. 2 x 1GB of ram is bleh.
For $260? With 4 HDD slots, iLO, and a concise chassis?
It's not meant to be a powerhouse, but unlike the gen 7 you can upgrade the CPU to a Xeon processor.
Do some research, there are a few decent CPU upgrades available, plus it's not hard to wack an extra stick of RAM in it.
Also, not too sure what you mean by 'weak PSU' but it's a MicroServer, isn't the point to be as green as possible?
just saying. pretty sure with such a crappy CPU you can build a box for around the same money.
PSU limits upgrade path, overall yearly power saving is not even worth mentioning.
my five cents.
why research upgrades before buying? pretty backwards thinking.
This box is favored because of it's small form factor, I'd like to see you try to build a custom PC with the same specs/size for less.
Again, this box is chosen because it's small and efficient, it's wasn't designed to be a monster and much like most OEM pre-build machines, wern't manufactured to be upgraded, but more of a plug and play server.
Why research anything before buying? Because that's what you do if you're smart and like to know your options before committing to a purchase like this.
I wouldn't be so quick to call it a crappy CPU. It reportedly has double the performance of the CPU in the previous gen 7 like the N54L, and plenty of people found that machine sufficient for their purposes.
@millusions: Perhaps then this server doesn't suit your requirements.
FYI you can also stick Haswell i3 chips like the 3220 into the G8.
You're half right. If you are not going to upgrade the RAM and CPU this isn't a great buy - if you need something plug and play.
On the other hand, why would you not upgrade the CPU. There are other faster and / or better options, but something like an i3 3220 (eBay is full of them) will work nicely and can be had for around $100: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Intel-Core-i3-3220-SR0RG-3-3GHz-3…
~$500 for this + i3 3220 (or better) + 16GB RAM is an absolutely killer home virtualization server / NAS.
I use this at work - it runs two web servers for internal use, hourly backup and two virtual machines with 6gb of ram. It works for my purpose.
I was looking at this pretty closely but i noticed that it only does RAID 0/1/10, surely that is not great as a NAS when you want Raid 5 or JBOD?
JBOD would be okay? Use Drivepool or another software solution like Freenas to manage your array.
Just use software raid like ZFS Z-raid under AHCI.
I don't use the raid card with mine - it's just an additional point of possible failure.
Make sure ECC RAM are used when running ZFS
The HP Gen 8 only takes ECC RAM anyway.
JBOD stands for just a bunch of disks - anything that you can plug multiple disks into is JBOD :)
Any 8GB kits for these servers on these sales? Can't convince myself that I need 16GB…
I think you need ECC memory if you want to use the 2 gb stick with it.
That one is ECC
I'm really tempted by this…if I just wanted to use it as a 1080p streaming file server, do I need to upgrade the RAM? Is it just a matter of putting in Xpenology/FreeNAS etc and I'd be ready to use it as a standard NAS?
If I wanted to transcode 1080p at a good bitrate with Plex, what would I have to do? Upgrade the CPU to an i3 and also add 8GB RAM?
Great timing my N40L purchased 5 years ago died today (shows as CPU overheating whenever I turn it on) so grabbed this and the 8GB. Perfect!
Thanks
No problem. I purchased mine as a backup for my N40L!
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That Amazon RAM is $140 to ship (so total $300aud) from Amazon to Australia and takes almost 3 weeks. Not a good deal.
Say what? It's $124usd shipped now that the price has changed, which is about $163aud.
Here's a copy paste from my cart right now:
Items: AUD 154.79
Shipping & handling: AUD 139.31
Total before tax: AUD 294.10
Estimated tax to be collected:* AUD 0.00
Order total: AUD 294.10
Are these suitable:
https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/crucial-16gb-kit-8gbx2-ddr3-160…
$179 + $7 shipping = 186 shipped - takes ages to deliver
http://www.i-tech.com.au/crucial-8gb-ddr3-1600-mt-s-pc3-1280…
$111 per 8gb stick + $14 shipping = 236
in stock apparently
Anyone able to confirm if these work or advise what RAM they have ordered/used?
Cheapest ever.