HP Proliant Microserver

**epoch1970** · 2011-03-24, 01:54

Originally Posted by chn68b

I've just copied across 4600 music files, mostly flac and that took just over 5 minutes to scan. Navigating around Squeezecentre almost as fast as you can push the buttons. Its a dual core processor with 1Gb of memory. Of course, having the OS as Vortexbox built on Fedora, its using far fewer resources anyway, which speeds things up a great deal too.

This is an interesting piece of hardware indeed.
I saw a comment on the HP website saying "S3 is not supported" (that's suspend to ram)
The very detailed specs on the HP website specify compliance with ACPI v2 (this means you don't have access to SATA and PCI-E power consumption policies you get in ACPI v3, AFAIK)
ACPI v2 spec also states that a compliant device must implement at least one of the S1-S4 states.

Hence a question: does your server support suspend to ram (and roughly how long does it take to wake-up from an SB WOL request to music playing) ?

**Bilimoria** · 2011-03-24, 02:02

Hi chn68b,

How did you manage to sleep HP Proliant Microserver?

**chn68b** · 2011-03-25, 05:24

I've no idea on the technical specs on suspend to ram etc. If you let me know how to get the info then I'm happy to do a little work to get you the answers.

If I use the squeezebox remote to set the server to hibernate, it sets the server and reboots it when I use the remote again. It takes a minute or two for the server to be rebooted.

**stevecross** · 2011-03-25, 09:15

Super bit of kit, for the money it is the business. I have set mine to hibernate. And am running os on a 2.5 drive, plus i have 4 spare bays now to fill with drives. I will put my music library on the system disk and use mirror folder to create a duplicate on one of the other drives. I really can,t see any negatives with this unit. As well as a music server i plan to download and also stream to my media player under my t.v

**stevecross** · 2011-03-25, 09:35

Originally Posted by Bilimoria

Hi chn68b,

How did you manage to sleep HP Proliant Microserver?

Yes, if you could help. I can only hibernate using windows, no sleep option.

**gimme2it** · 2011-04-10, 12:33

what's the latest with this device? is the hibernate/sleep function clear? i may be interested in getting it.

thanks

**audiomuze** · 2011-04-11, 08:35

ask me in a week or so - waiting on mine to arrive.

**stevecross** · 2011-04-13, 04:54

Originally Posted by gimme2it

what's the latest with this device? is the hibernate/sleep function clear? i may be interested in getting it.

thanks

As far as i can tell the bios does not support sleep but allows hibernate,, I have heard that HP have no intentions of writing the bios to allow sleep. So only hibernate is available. I am more than happy with mine and for the money it is a fine bit of kit, the case would most likely cost £90 so after cashback it is a very good buy. It works and works well.

**spile** · 2011-04-21, 06:58

I've been running the HP Proliant ML115 G5 for many years and it has been rock solid. Brand new it only cost me £105 and apart from extra HDs all I've done is increase the RAM to 1.5Gb.
It runs Windows Home Server and of course SBS.

**stevecross** · 2011-04-21, 12:52

Originally Posted by spile

I've been running the HP Proliant ML115 G5 for many years and it has been rock solid. Brand new it only cost me £105 and apart from extra HDs all I've done is increase the RAM to 1.5Gb.
It runs Windows Home Server and of course SBS.

That is reassuring, so far my unit is working fine. It serves my films along with squeeze server. Money well spent, not many things do what they are supposed to but this is one that does.

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