My bad - The purchase date is the date used for the promotion range.
When filling in the form you select the purchase date from the dropdown list. If the date you bought it isn't on there, you've missed the offer.
So buying now or on 30/04 is still valid for cashback
Hot - good find
Xeon on it's own is best part of £200.
Fine server for just over £200 after cashback
CampGareth
12 Apr 16#2
Any ideas on what to replace an old N40L with that'd fit six drives? This fits them physically but only has 4 onboard sata ports :/
mrew42 to CampGareth
12 Apr 161#4
Install a PCI sata card to get more ports.
Wolf0x
12 Apr 16#3
Anyone any idea how this stacks up against the HP microserver?
a8smith to Wolf0x
12 Apr 16#6
It might sound odd, but they're kind of hard to compare just by raw specifications, for example....
The CPU in this is vastly more powerful and has more advanced VM capabilities
The HP has a hardware RAID controller and uses less power
What do you want the server to do?
fishmaster to Wolf0x
12 Apr 165#28
Well I bought 15 of each and made a pyramid.
pr2thej
12 Apr 16#5
7k passmark, good for 3 1080p plex streams with some overhead...cracking for the money!
Wolf0x
12 Apr 161#7
Some typically home-use things really, I'm currently using a 'server' I've constructed out of old components I had lying around (i3-540) so I've been wondering for a while if getting a purpose-built homeserver is worth it both performance and energy cost wise. So right now I'm using it for automated computer backups, serving media around the house (Plex and UPnP), overnight Steam downloads (slow internet where I am) and the occassional dedicated game server (nothing serious) for myself and a few friends.
shkurti
12 Apr 16#8
It would be a big boost in terms of Plex (Dependent on your network/internet as well) it's VM capabilities can't be underestimated as well.
a8smith
12 Apr 16#9
What you've built is almost certainly more powerful than the HP, and more capable as a media server if you have to transcode videos. But if you're just serving videos around your house to smart TVs/media players you probably don't have to transcode - you have the network speed and the players likely play all video types natively.
I don't know if the HP would be powerful enough as a game server I'm afraid. The processor in it is a dual core without hyper threading, where your i3 processor has 2 cores each with 2 threads, which might make a difference if you are simultaneously hosting a game server and serving 2 videos.
WalterSmith
12 Apr 16#10
If I purchased the 32G variant would this be good for crunching 4K video edited in Adobe Prenier and saved as H264 (for youtube) and H265 (for vimeo)?
Currently using a 4 year old Dell Vostro 200 with an i5 Sandybridge, 8G RAM and 500G SSD.
(would of course add an SSD)
a8smith to WalterSmith
12 Apr 16#19
I'm not sure it would be a significant improvement, if one at all. I've looked myself in the past, plenty of build threads on the Adobe Premiere Pro where people have compared Xeons to iX processors. The response is nearly always that it just isn't worth it - and this processor isn't the most powerful Xeon by any means, pretty comparable to the higher end i5 sandy bridge.
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Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 3.2GHz (3.6GHz boost) Quad-Core, 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3 ECC UDIMM, 1TB 7200rpm LFF SATA, Gigabit LAN, 290W PSU, 1 Year Warranty
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If noise is a big priority you can retrofit some appropriate Noctua replacement fans.
This guy replaced fans with noctuas:
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/f101/dell-poweredge-t20-1031138-60.html#post22901900
This guy did a crazy mod of the T20 to fit a ridiculous number of disks, but also replaced fans:
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/f101/dell-poweredge-t20-ft-dell-perc-h730-aufgebohrt-und-zugenietet-1112100.html
My bad - The purchase date is the date used for the promotion range.
When filling in the form you select the purchase date from the dropdown list. If the date you bought it isn't on there, you've missed the offer.
So buying now or on 30/04 is still valid for cashback
https://plus.delltradetosave.com/gb/en/claims/promotions/invoice
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Xeon on it's own is best part of £200.
Fine server for just over £200 after cashback
The CPU in this is vastly more powerful and has more advanced VM capabilities
The HP has a hardware RAID controller and uses less power
What do you want the server to do?
I don't know if the HP would be powerful enough as a game server I'm afraid. The processor in it is a dual core without hyper threading, where your i3 processor has 2 cores each with 2 threads, which might make a difference if you are simultaneously hosting a game server and serving 2 videos.
Currently using a 4 year old Dell Vostro 200 with an i5 Sandybridge, 8G RAM and 500G SSD.
(would of course add an SSD)