Johnm

No, but the price is quite reasonable http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235039&Tpk=zalman%20MS800

Nice to see another MicroServer owner! In case you hadn't seen all the discussion on forums.overclockers.com.au , there are some sets of RAM that work in the MicroServer until you either reboot or power off and re-power (I can't remember which). I suggest you do a few (5-10) cycles of soft rebooting and hard power cycling and each time check that the BIOS sees all 16GB. As you're only booting in to the BIOS, it shouldn't take long. There are reports that Patriot RAM works, and I think one or two other types, but most 8GB DIMMs do not work -- the HP Microserver doesn't officially support 16GB. Cheers, Neil. Good info.. I Have been pretty successful with 2x Samsung 8GiB ECC Unbufferd UDIMMs... but i have not powered it on and off more then a dozen times since I installed it. Ok, about the same as 14-15" laptop. thanks for the info. that should work... I'll probably get one when I get back stateside.

Nice setup. A little off topic. what is the max resolution on that portable monitor? I have been looking for something like that for a while. I have a rack mounted mac mini server that gets used offsite quite often. most of time it needs no monitor. but every now and then we need to put a monitor on it. We found out that none of the normal portable USB monitors work as the primary/only display on OSx. the HDMI of this one should work for us.

Thats one way to unmake the MicroServer... that reminds me of my 24 drive Norco powered by an X7SPA ITX Atom. There is a 16 port LSI HBA if you want to pass on the expander. Personally, I prefer the micro server as a micro server, but is it neat to see one evolve into something else. I like that you didn't actually destroy anything (unlike most modding). that way you can always rebuild the MicroServer when you chose to upgrade the board in the new build.

Nice tip. I put a strip or two of blue painters tape over the head of my flashlight so it was much dimmer.

No, as i recall you needed to change 3-4 files. otherwise you end up with a mismatched flash. what I did was used the "LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11)" file on page one, then i downloaded the "upgrade-M1015-P12" file found later in the thread and i replaced the files in "upgrade-M1015-P12" with the P14 files. and it went just fine. there is some talk that the P14 files might be needed for unraid for the LSI bug fixes. I do not think this is confirmed yet. I see no reason not to go to P14 now. I believe i had to replace the dos version of sas2flash.exe and everything in the "sasbios_rel" folder also.. otherwise you get an error later that the SAS card version is incorrect or not found. I had that error back when i flashed to P13. I was able to recover

It is still usable hardware in my opinion. I would post your question there. some of the mods on that site are very knowledgeable on the hardware and its limits and installing other stuff on them. i believe that some of the people on that forum used to work for the MSS division of HP.

Thats a very good question and i have wondered about that myself. I know a few people with the older MSS units that are unused. I believe they MSS boots from usb if it is in the top rear USB port. the motherboards are proprietary, but they have Intel 775 chips in many of them (some are upgradeable). some can support 2GB (or more?) of ram. A good place to ask would be over at www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/ You could try booting the free version of unraid if you can get it to boot usb. the hardest part is that they are headless and you cant see any errors without a breakout cable..

it looks like it works. I didnt actually execute the command. But i got everything in place to test it on my new LSI card when I get it. and get time...

thank you. I am so not used to these seagates. too bad they are such crap drives. they have nice specs..

My latest pre-clear... Hmmm.

I thought the same thing.. the second i saw the broken legs... "ok break the rest and drill them out. put a fan screw in from the back". it might even make it better by removing the vibration of the fan rattling around on that plastic post. Pretty craptastic design now, that's for sure.

Im running 3 m1015's flashed with p13 (p14 was released after I flashed them). I am running on 5.0Beta12. I can confirm from experiance that betas 13 & 14 do not work with LSI cards.

The Esata port on the Microserver does not support port multiplying. you would have to get an esata card that supports port multipliers to use an external multi-drive esata bay that uses port multiplication.

what boards have you tried it on? also where are you located? if your in Chicago, I'll do it for free.

I'll add the Nexus Prominent 9 to this list.

Nice I like it.. very clean. Nice prices... I just put a 22 Drive Pro (IPMI) in my cart! I did however cancel the order... this time.

Here is my thought on it... Personally. I would go with the "6" drive flavor.. I would get 5x 3.5" drives and 1x 2.5". especially with drives costing what they do right now... fill it with 2TB or 3TB and go with that...... then spend the cost of all of the "extra stuff" you need to make it into a 7 drive box and just buy another box (with that killer UK deal) and put that in storage for when you fill this box.. then at a later date, when drives are cheaper, larger or you run out of space.... upgrade this one, moving drives to the other microserver.... or just build the other one fresh. I have a 4 (and a half) drive micro server that i got back when drives were 1 TB in size. I then upgraded it to 1.5TB drives, then 2TB and now it has 3TB drives.. just as the drives start getting full, the next size up goes on sale as drives get bigger and cheaper. (I somehow don't see 4TB drives getting cheap soon though). as far as the old drives. they are all in my "back up server" so they are not a wasted investment...

I have to do a major server breakdown this Thursday or Friday. when I do, I'll have a spare X9SCM and M1015 to test. there has to be a way to flash with this combo. It sounds like it is the "erase step" that fails. it might be some sort of PCIe setting / slot selection combo.

SOrry. I am the yank mod on a large UK server and forums where the atmosphere is a bit lighter. No offense was meant I apologize if it offended you. Now if i can get the British guy in my HR dept to stop calling everyone a C**t...

it sounds like there is a potential opportunity for some sort of international coalition for creating fully populated prebuilt microservers.

no sheet.. flipping wankers..

No, but i did have some drives on each controller. the P11 drives redballed AFTER i downgraded. (but still froze up) True, but some Bios versions might not be effected by kernel bugs. of course other LSI users could verify the issue. i just don't think you want to put your production box on the line just yet. LSI users are still a pretty small percentage of unraid users. it is only recently that there has been a real rush of USAS, m1015 and BR10i users. On the bright side, it looks like the MV8 issues might be fixed.. (I still have those for backup.)

I just reflashed 2x M1015's I flashed both with madburg's bat files and upgraded one to P11 with zeron's bat I used an Asus AT3ION-I HTPC motherboard i had laying around. smooth as silk.

easy, a backup server....