I got the Pentium version of this on the last cash back offer for £150 minus the £70 which was a total bargain

Even that lower chip boots windows 10 from a sandisk SSD plus in around 8 seconds and does a restart in around 12 seconds so its pretty nippy for a dual core Pentium at only 3ghz

I am thinking of getting myself the xeon version and may sell the Pentium one on tbh, but I will wait for a while to see if the price drops at all first even though the £220 price after a cash back is still quite decent with the 1tb HDD being included too

A company called netstore DID have the 3708 for 280 including vat a few days ago but they just altered to the price to almost £400 for some strange reason. So as the offer moves past the half way point some retailers might try to tempt the hold outs into purchasing one by price reductions is what I am hoping for

Is it getting as far as starting the windows installation or is this a problem with the dvd/usb stick your installing from?
You have the usb formatted as fat32 and did you try using windows usb/dvd install tool from wudt.codeplex.com or microsoft to copy the iso to your usb stick?

Yes

It arrived today and I have OMV installed and ready to go.

Superb deal although overkill for home use :smiley: I have less powerful servers in use in an enterprise environment.

Hot from me.

Great deal, but beware the power consumption for always on running!

​That's exactly what I have done but I have also had to order a pcie sata card as I was using all 5 sata and the esata on my old n40l

out of stock now

All sold out. Mine disappeared from my cart before I checked out.
Never mind I didn't need one and had no real use for it. My HP Microserver sits doing nothing as I used a nas for storage and an Intel nuc as a media player.

Ditto - the Lenovo seemed like a better machine overall, shame it hasn't been in offer recently.

​I havent seen a ts 140 for months and months for cheap I wanted that one because the cpu is better than the Dell

I take its this is the same model just a different CPU, this guy upgrades/MOD's his server HERE

Great deal....I got the POWEREDGE T20 E3-1225 v3 4GB 1TB a while ago from a deal on here. Edit - thought this was new model - so I have the same that I got in Oct.

Very pleased....a lot bigger than the Gen7 it replaced but I have cheaply added 32gb of non ECC, drives are not as accessible and I dont think it will take 4 HDs without a expansion port (I may be wrong on this one).
Mine is amazingly quiet - more so than the HP Proliant - but I have seen other write that they are not quiet - maybe luck of the draw.

will this badboy take an nvidia 750ti?

Is your hard drive showing up in the BIOS or when you boot?

I had issues installing windows server 2012. says cant find drives. anyone know how i can fix this

Getting close to finally going for this Dell T20, a Lenovo TS140, or an HP Gen8 - all seem to come around on various deals on HUKD and all go hot.

We're basically looking for a 4-bay(?) NAS tower to centrally store all our photographs as the children grow up, with a bit more capability for transcoding, etc. The T20 seems to strike quite a good balance on value for money and expandability while remaining slightly more future-proof through OS updates? Easy to do incremental backups too?

So Win10 or Win Server 2012 installed would also allow use as an occasional desktop? Do either support RAID (or whatever the Microsoft equivalent is called) in a redundant array? Is this software- or hardware-based? (And if the latter, is cheap hardware RAID a false economy compared to software RAID on a good processor, like the Xeon - if it is?)

Many thanks in advance for advice!

well, not far off, processor and the RAM.
so you get a free motherboard, case, psu, hard drive, optical drive.

On the other hand, the idle power usage of the Xeon is around 20W, and I expect most of the time the server will be close to idling. The rest of the hardware in there is basically the same, so the overall difference shouldn't be that dramatic.

​Dont mix ECC and Non-ECC but the machine can take either.

would like to replace my microserver gen 8 with this but don't think I would get much resale value on the gen 8

you'd need terminal services client access licenses for the thin client plan. "Just add power" do some cool senders. Just need a multi output gpu after that then.

It has Intel HD Graphics P4600 but then again this is a server which never has any decent graphics card. You can add one in the PCI slot (probably need to check space inside as it's a mini tower but half decent cheapo card should work fine depending on your use case)

Would also love to get this to replace my 3 year Old Proliant Micro Server... anyone else ?

Not added RAM yet but I imagine I will. I have no idea what type of RAM it needs, though I have read on a previous deal thread comments like "I added 2 sticks of 8GB Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR3 PC3-12800 to go with the 4GB already there (20GB in total)". I understand that the ECC/non-ECC is an issue, as the supplied 4Gb stick is ECC.

This is definitely something I'm interested in. I'd like to mirror an ESX box at home, but don't want any big iron sucking power down. Let me know if you come across anything that can idle, and sip power as a unit

anyone know how loud these are during operation?

What sort of graphics card can I install in this? I'm assuming the on-board GPU is pretty dire.

any idea what the realterms difference is in powerconsumption ? I'm in the same situation

EDIT: from a quick google The Xeon E301225v3 processor on it's own uses 68.25W, whilst the Microserver uses around 23W with some disks, memory etc That's a large difference.

If only they used the 1230v3 (or better) this is one of the few Xeons without hyperthreading, still good price OP.

Any opinion on using this box for 4k video editing?

Such a good deal, wish I had the money!

Not sure on this bit unless i buy dead cheap thin terminals

What is the CPU on par with in desktop world 6th gen i5?

Could i use this as a PC? or have multiple monitors around the house to connect into it?

I have a Hp N40L but it is slow on transcoding would this be a good upgrade?

Just set mine up as a PC workstation - it was really easy. Now have a fast Windows 10 PC with loads of storage for a very cheap price! Added SSD and a nice monitor

Great deal, easy to claim the cashback from Dell.

Processor alone is worth the price.

Cracking computer for the money