News - HP launches miniature server for small businesses

[HEXUS]

ProLiant MicroServer designed to help very small companies grow.

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[young_one]

Its a impressive little piece of kit, combine it with the new SBS Aurora or '7' and it is the perfect solution for a lot of small businesses out there.

Nice to see some inovation from HP, not usually a fan of theirs but this is a great idea.

[Sim0n]

This looks great.

Throw in a 1Gb SATADOM : http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12500 (theres a spare SATA slow for a CD/DVD), throw linux on that using a USB Drive.
As long as you keep it slim-line, and dont bother with a GUI, you can easily fit a nice fileserving box on there.
£260ish quid, plus 4 HDDs, instance 6Tb Fileserver with raid 5.

Here i was specing up a small box for fileserving, when HP comes along with a nice slick looking box, saves me hacking something together.

[scottfscottf]

Manuals etc.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...riesId=4248009

Not sure if hard disk rails are supplied for all drives.

[cjs150]

As a file server it is a failure (no RAID 5)

As a general email server however this looks very nice, good price as well

[Nikumba]

Well looking at the spec sheet, it does have a 16x PCIe slot, so you could put a better raid card into that and hook the HDDs to that, which would give you the RAID 5.

But for a home user box, I wonder how well it would handle 1080p transcoding

Kimbie

[Sim0n]

Erm... software raid 5