HP Microserver Gen8 Intel Celeron G1610T is a good entry level server. It was available for £60 cashback last month, but now it's available for £70 cashback. Good Deal & good way to start your easter shopping :smiley:
Please note, VAT is applied for shipping as well. Hence total cost before cashback is £191.88
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Bilbo1968 to GoNz017
4 Apr 176#8
Do you hate him that much?
refaey
5 Apr 173#37
I have this server running FreeNAS 10 (aka FreeNAS Corral). After upgrading and adding hard disks, etc etc the cost went up to £739. Worth every penny in my opinion.
Server: £115
16gb Memory: £87
16gb MicroSD Card to reboot FreeNAS: £6
128gb USB Stick for cache, transmission, Plex cache, etc etc: £22
512gb SSD drive to host VMs: £89
4 x 5tb HDD: £420
Total cost: £739
I have mine in the loft running 24x7 and connected to the router downstairs via two ethernet cables running through the chimney.
I use it for everything, Transmission (torrent downloading), Plex, running VMs,...etc.
As some people said, it's not the fastest but you can upgrade the processor if you want mega speed. If you want to go crazy trascode multiple full HD streams,...etc, it will struggle. But if you want to use for home-use, which is what it's intended for, it's perfect.
Mine runs transmission, a couple of VMs while streaming a couple of full HD movies to different TVs comfortably. Most clients don't need transcoding nowadays unless you're watching in a browser from outside home.
It's also worth mentioning that it has an iLO interface, which really helps running it as a headless machine.
Highly recommended in my opinion, and at this price it's a steal.
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GoNz017
4 Apr 171#1
These are dog slow nowadays, you can get the gen9 mini tower for £30 more, seems a no brainer to me being a former owner of this model for about 6 months before I gave up on it and sold it to my brother.
Gen9, later chipset, DDR4, more room to expand and a 300w PSU.
Bilbo1968 to GoNz017
4 Apr 176#8
Do you hate him that much?
sfsorrow to GoNz017
5 Apr 17#35
You've got my interest. Do you know if it takes a standard ATX PSU? I've got a 450w Corsair and HD 7870 sitting around. Could potentially give me a bit of gaming in my living room - I'm still finding Steam streaming a bit crap.
shakerstevens to GoNz017
5 Apr 171#38
There is no Gen9 version of the Microserver yet.
Gen8 is still the latest version
Yes there is an ML10, ML30 Gen9 tower but no Microserver model (just in case the small form factor is important to people).
chrisnoon74
4 Apr 17#2
But if I ONLY want for plex and file server, is this okay?
kvn618 to chrisnoon74
4 Apr 17#3
yes
sneakybifta to chrisnoon74
5 Apr 171#29
If you don't need Plex to do any transcoding it'll be fine.
OrribleHarry to chrisnoon74
5 Apr 17#31
Depending if you intend to transcode
chrisnoon74
4 Apr 17#4
Thanks
GoNz017
4 Apr 17#5
I say no once it starts having to transcode it will sit at very high CPU as it just can't cope, one of the reasons I got rid. Even with a E3-1220 v2 it could only just cope.
For £30 more you have a better chip and bandwidth plus more upgradable in the future instead of legacy parts with huge markups.
TheBiker to GoNz017
4 Apr 17#6
Link please
nmohapatra
4 Apr 172#7
This works great if you want to backup your photos, videos, run as plex server, file server etc.. You can even get it to transcode your videos from a folder. Personally I want my files to be converted to mp4 and I do that using VLC cli, which automatically picks up files from folders and does it for me. ( https://wiki.videolan.org/Transcode/ )
I also run a batch process to pick up all pics from a folder and arrange them by date folders. Moreover its small, silent & power efficient :smiley:
HondaLad
4 Apr 171#9
I have a N54L and I've never had any problems with it being slow transcoding? Surely this should be even faster than the N54L so why would it not be able to keep up?
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Opening post
Please note, VAT is applied for shipping as well. Hence total cost before cashback is £191.88
Top comments
Server: £115
16gb Memory: £87
16gb MicroSD Card to reboot FreeNAS: £6
128gb USB Stick for cache, transmission, Plex cache, etc etc: £22
512gb SSD drive to host VMs: £89
4 x 5tb HDD: £420
Total cost: £739
I have mine in the loft running 24x7 and connected to the router downstairs via two ethernet cables running through the chimney.
I use it for everything, Transmission (torrent downloading), Plex, running VMs,...etc.
As some people said, it's not the fastest but you can upgrade the processor if you want mega speed. If you want to go crazy trascode multiple full HD streams,...etc, it will struggle. But if you want to use for home-use, which is what it's intended for, it's perfect.
Mine runs transmission, a couple of VMs while streaming a couple of full HD movies to different TVs comfortably. Most clients don't need transcoding nowadays unless you're watching in a browser from outside home.
It's also worth mentioning that it has an iLO interface, which really helps running it as a headless machine.
Highly recommended in my opinion, and at this price it's a steal.
All comments (63)
Gen9, later chipset, DDR4, more room to expand and a 300w PSU.
Gen8 is still the latest version
Yes there is an ML10, ML30 Gen9 tower but no Microserver model (just in case the small form factor is important to people).
For £30 more you have a better chip and bandwidth plus more upgradable in the future instead of legacy parts with huge markups.
I also run a batch process to pick up all pics from a folder and arrange them by date folders. Moreover its small, silent & power efficient :smiley:
http://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/hp_tower_servers/837826-421