January 7, 201115 yr I hoped to sit down and get this done a few weeks ago due to offer that HP was running ( http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9529.0 ) but I just didn't have the time. It's a server by HP that I think makes a nice little unRAID system. It's pretty straight forward to get into and install drives and seems to work very nicely. I'm only using this as a test system at the moment so no exciting capacities. OS at time of building: 4.6 Basic CPU: Dual Core 1.3 GHz AMD Athlon II Motherboard: HP Microserver RAM: 1GB DDR3 Unbuffered ECC Case: HP Microserver Drive Cage(s): One - Unknown brand - Probably HP Power Supply: 200W SATA Expansion Card(s): None Cables: Standard SATA cables Fans: 1 x 120mm (very quiet) Parity Drive: Seagate 160GB (Model: VB0160EAVEQ - seems to be a model made specifically for HP) Data Drives: Western Digital 150GB Raptor Cache Drive: None Total Drive Capacity: 5 drives. Primary Use: Test unRAID server Likes: Nice small size, VERY quiet, seems pretty fast. Dislikes: Will be considered by some to be too small due to 5 drive limitation Add Ons Used: unMENU, Sick beard + SABnzdb Future Plans: Continue testing sick beard for a while then move to unRAID V5 beta, eventually use this system as a proper unRAID server. Boot (peak): 61.4W Idle (avg): 22.7W Active (avg): 44.2W Light use (avg): 31.2W Internal USB Connector! I've been running this for a few weeks and it seems very stable, i've not had any issues with it at all. The supplied HDD isn't up to much but I doubt many here would have much use for a 160GB drive anyway. Although it has 4 3.5" drive bays you can add a 5th drive by using a 5.25" to 3.5" drive adapter and the spare SATA connector on the board.
January 7, 201115 yr What interface type are those two motherboard slots that we see at the back of the case?
January 7, 201115 yr Author 1 half-height, half-length PCIe x16 Gen 2 1 half-height, half-length PCIe x1 Gen 2
January 9, 201115 yr So jealous - I'd love to be able to get one of those... I want to build a high speed server and use my current one as dead storage with mostly green drives sleeping...waking up mostly once a month for data parity checks helas not available in Canada!
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