HP Proliant Microserver

[chn68b]

How does this sound for a server to run the squeezebox server?

HP ProLiant MicroServer - Athlon II Neo N36L - 1.3GHz - 1GB - 250GB

You can buy it at the moment for £240 and get £100 cash back from HP

[slate]

MicroServer... had not heard about that one before.

I think that it will do nicely as a SBS server

I was thinking about powerconsumption, but didn't find numbers... but below the specs there are 4 pages of customer comments with some pro/con:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en...7-4248009.html

among them:
I bought this server; less than 22w in idle, quiet and much faster than the Intel counterpart (atom).

[chn68b]

MicroServer... had not heard about that one before.

I think that it will do nicely as a SBS server

I was thinking about powerconsumption, but didn't find numbers... but below the specs there are 4 pages of customer comments with some pro/con:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en...7-4248009.html

among them:
I bought this server; less than 22w in idle, quiet and much faster than the Intel counterpart (atom).

Looks like it will do the job well as a standalone server and for £140 after the cashback it looks like a bargain. Really need to sort something out I sit here while I copy my entire music and video collection to an external drive thanks to a virus...

I want a standalone server to give me added security to prevent this happening again, but it must be run the squeezebox server quickly and be low consumption when idle.

[chn68b]

I've just ordered this now and it'll be arriving tomorrow, at £240 with £100 cashback I think its a bit of a bargain.

It will also be hosting my photos and videos, so now, what do I install on it? Windows Home Sever, Freenas, Vortexbox?

[chn68b]

If anyones interested, the hp works a treat with the squeezebox server on vortexbox. At £140 with the discount, this could well be the cheap solution we've been waiting for. Its very responsive.

[stevecross]

Hi there, just a quick question or two. Does this wake on lan and have you measured power consumption

steve

[Henry66]

I've just ordered this now and it'll be arriving tomorrow, ... what do I install on it? Windows Home Sever, Freenas, Vortexbox?

Which server OS did you pick? Care to share your experiences?

[RussellMrgn]

I've just ordered one of these myself.
Ordered from ebuyer in the UK for £248.22 (VAT included) which includes £7.93 postage to Jersey Channel Islands.
As soon as I recieve it, ebuyer have said that they will refund the VAT which was £41.37 for this order, and with the £100 cash back brings the price down to £114.78. I'm well happy with that!

Russ.