HP N36L Microserver - £100

[Tifosi]

Other people here have bought from Crescent - did you get any sort of delivery confirmation/how long did they take? All I've had is the one order confirmation email and I think this is the 7th working day after ordering.

mine arrived tuesday was ordered on 14th (8 days), I didn't get any tracking they deliver with CityLink

[Tifosi]

I used the VAT invoice and s/n and emailed in my rebate, was confirmed and turned around in a day with a couple of email from the promotions team, you have until the end of next month to claim the cashback in the small print. Invoice & delivery has to be by the end of this month at current.

[watercooled]

Yeah, and I'm counting on the fact they won't know when it gets delivered.
If anything goes wrong though, Crescent can have it back under DSR.

[Splash]

Anyone found a decent dual port NIC that plays nicely barring the Realtek quad-port jobby that spoon_ posted?

I'm also toying with the idea of picking up the IPMI card, but Serversplus are out of stock

[jim]

I don't see why the delivery date makes a difference... the invoice won't show any different, and you've got until the end of may to claim.

[pardal51]

really tempted to get this little box.....

rebate is a bit misleading, because claim form pdf tells about "...must be inveoiced and delivered by...", but HP promo page - http://h41112.www4.hp.com/promo/prol...ver/index.html says "...must be invoiced ..."

I also believe that delivery date does not matter, but....

anyway, I am receiving a refund from Dell (XPS M1330, 3 years old out of warranty, dell outlet), laptop failed due to the inherent fault with Nvidia gpu so have extra cash to splash

[spoon_]

Anyone found a decent dual port NIC that plays nicely barring the Realtek quad-port jobby that spoon_ posted?

PCI-E x1? Gonna be hard to get something decent really. Plenty to chose from for PCI-E x16 though..

[jim]

Does anybody know the easiest way to configure a swap file for openfiler after the installation is complete? I've got over 2GB spare on the USB stick I'm running openfiler off, just don't want to make a hash of it!

[watercooled]

I wouldn't put swap on a flash drive if that's what you mean.

[jim]

Yeah, it's a toss up between improving the performance or wrecking the flash drive I'm thinking... question is, how quickly would the wrecking occur, and would it actually improve the performance.

I'll probably re-jig it soon anyway, don't think this is the optimum setup really.

[watercooled]

I don't think the I/O speed of a USB flash drive would help matters any, and anyway I don't think Linux touches the swap until the RAM is, or is close to being, full. So provided you have enough RAM you should be fine.

[spoon_]

I have taken my apart a bit to allow better airflow:



- MiniSAS cable together with Molex power came out allowing much better airflow,
- Front USBs got disconnected and pulled back,
- PSU Molex connectors got pulled back,
- SATA cable was added for vswp SSD [need to buy it first!]
- 2x4GB of RAM was added, very low profile.

What needs to be done:
- Dust filter on the door, need to buy some filter material first,
- Buy Scythe Bay Rafter 2.5" Rev. B ==> http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/prod...v-B_18501.html
- Buy Corsair F40 SSD.

That should be it for now.

[otto123]

Hi,

also got that baby. Came across your thread because of the IDE question. I attached an external HDD on E-SATA. I build in a tray instead of the optical drive and connected to the onboard Sata.

Then I installed
1) nexenta current build
2) Solaris Express 11
on the E-SATA drive (basically a 2.5 inch laptop drive)

I created a raid z2 pool from the remaining 5 1 TB non 4k drives. Well, then the not so funny think happens: The pool degrades. Due to the disc connected to the onboard Esata. I flashed the new HP Bios. No difference. NExenta shows IDE for the Onboard E-Sata. Scrap!

Russian is fine for me but another solution would be nicer ;-) Anyone a clue?

By the way: I added 8GB Kingston EEC Ram and a HP low profile Gbit Card with two Intel Nics and the remote card (which buy the way is not clever as you will get a supermicroboard with all you need onboard with small Xeon for that price). I made a trunk of the two Gbit Boards. Get around 100 Mb/s with Solaris Express via CIFs.

Cheers
Otto

[Biscuit]

anyone got links for the really low profile ram similar to what HP use?

[DDY]

You can find low profile Crucial memory on thier website, the low profile option is at the bottom of the attributes section when choosing RAM.

But, the 1GB stick that comes with the microserver isn't low profile, is it? I recall the memory is standard height.

[watercooled]

No it's just standard height RAM, I'd just avoid anything with heatsinks on, but then I don't think I've seen any ECC RAM with heatsinks.