But you know that running XP means that ISIS have won? or have I got leaving the EU mixed up with obsolete operating systems again? I get so confused :smile:

​easy upgrade to an i3 £20-40...

​a good start is the i3 3240 or 3240t. from the YouTube vids the upgrade looks simple, just some thermal paste and a screwdriver needed.
if you want real oomph, you can get a xeon in there if the i3 is also too weedy, although that starts to get expensive...

From the point of view of continuous energy consumption over 24 hours, how do these compare with 4-bay NAS boxes? I'm asking this on the assumption that each would use identical quantity/model of HDD - In other words, I need to know just how the box compares.

I get full gigabit between my two, 110 - 115 MBps

I've just read a detailed review of this HP Gen8 Microserver. For some not-known reason (and not picked up by any of the other reviews), the transfer rates over gigabit lan were pretty dismal. So presumably (if true) tehn that would not be good for NAS usage.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1377-page7.html

I'm trying to decide between this and the Dell T20-3685.

They both have 4GB of RAM, and the Dell's G3220 outperforms the HP's G1610T (comparison).

The G3220 does have a higher typical power consumption - I wish they published idling power consumption, as that's what matters in an always-on home server. I'd be using it as a VPN server, file server, media server, and would preferably virtualise using ESXi as that's my forte.

I'm leaning towards the Dell: it's cheaper, faster, likely to be quieter, and more upgradable later.

The HP is smaller, but that doesn't really matter to me.

Does anyone know of anything that should sway me?

I am using openmediavault absolutely awesome and do recommend to anyone .Control everything remotely through gui plex & plexpy, owncloud, my cctv cameras and other things.. Knowledge needed but have a very helpful forum.

I have i3-3240T running on mine. 2nd hand from CEX for £35

Ok, got one of this last year. Upgraded Ram to 16GM with an i5 CPU upgrade and 240GB SSDon the ODD port.

My plan is to either install windows server 2012 R2 or use something like xpenology/unraid/nas4ree...

I have a couple of questions ...

With windows 2012 R2
Basically, I would like to backup my backup my osx machines to the Gen8 rather than messing around with an external drive
1) Is it possible to implement a Time Machine function similar to ones on prebuilt NAS's like synology,Qnap?

Xpenology/Freenas/unraid/openmediavault ....
(1) Does this have to be installed on a usb stick or sdcard or ssd?
(2) Is there not a greater chance of OS corruption using usb or ssd?


cheers

I have one of these. Not done anything mega with it but I have a 120GB SSD on the ODD drive, 5TB HDD and bumped it up to 16GB RAM so I have a 4GB stick spare.

I could not decided whether 2 run ESXi or Server 2012 with Hyper-V so I opted for latter and have about 4 VMs running off it. There are definitely limits with this server but it depends on your intended use. My setup is nothing spectacular but it fits my needs for now

I use mine for media storage, automatic downloading, One drive syncing, PXE booting for when i'm building other systems etc.. I also have another one which i replicate to.

Maybe a stupid question, but what would a domestic house use something like this for ? I thought I was pretty tech savvy but haven't come across a need for one yet. Friendly answers only please :smiley:

If you want a modest home server that you intend to leave on 24/7 then these are just the ticket. They are very low energy mine barely goes over 50-55watts and they are ultra quiet which keeps the boss happy

If you want to upgrade the cpu then don't bother with this server. This is just a basic home server. The next better cpu model is £460.

Build your own rig and it'll be much better.

Yes but if need it to do transcoding then you need to upgrade the cpu

​Don't use RAID5 with that much storage.

Would this be suitable to use as a Plex server?

Would this be a better solution than a synology for a small business with 6 users.
Just to use as a file server with redundancy

I think the Dell T20 for £330 with £130 cashback is better value...obviously that's twice the price though! Good for the money so have some heat :smiley:

Integrated RAID controller only supports 0, 1 or 10. He will need to buy a raid controller.

I was interested in one if these but RAID 1 or 10 seems a bit rubbish given that you can only use 4x4TB disks, so best usable capacity of 8TB.

But you know that running XP means that ISIS have won? or have I got leaving the EU mixed up with obsolete operating systems again? I get so confused :smile:

I use mine as a file server and CCTV server Chucked on windows XP and blue iris software and it runs a treat.

I have mine with an extra 4GB ECC RAM and a USB stick running FreeNAS with no problems at all, just add the hard disks... paid out cashback within 6 weeks.

Only if you want to kill it with transcoding....

It certainly does not need another 4gb to "function" mine runs with 2gb to spare. The minimum to make this function is a USB stick (for xpenology) a HDD (for Linux). Windows is very bloated so 4gb will run although it could do with more.

For a server the CPU really doesn't need an upgrade. This dual core would manage, unless you want to virtualise multiple servers on this one server. In which case this is the wrong server for that task.

Any links?

Good price. Just needs 4GB more memory + SSD + HDD to make it function.
Oh and a windows server OS if you don't want Linux.