Microserver or NAS

UnknownStuntm... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Karma :

I know, 'use the search' blah blah. I have, and I'm still wondering if it's really worth having so shell out about £300 on a basic Microserver just to do NAS.

The cashback offer on the HP ends today, so there's no danger of me being quick enough to snag one for a theoretical £125 plus storage.

Opinions, please?

CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

Microserver is many many times more versatile than a NAS.

It's awesome.

Only Harley a rider would buy a non-enterprise NAS.

owl · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Oct 2016 Karma :

picked one up with the cashback deal, as cansa says awe-some, bought the base model with the shit cpu, picked up a better processor, upped the ram to 16gb, running a mix of ssd and wd reds.
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UnknownStuntm... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Karma :

ok. I get it. It's a gay solution to a problem. But it's still *a* solution, and if it's the only problem I want fixing right now, is it really that bad?

I have a sick cat that's about to cost me a Monkey. I would have prolly splooshed on something bling were it not for that.

Evil Hans · World Chat Champion Joined: 08 Nov 2015 Karma :

Shoot the cat. Buy a microserver.

HtH.
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owl · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Oct 2016 Karma :

what other nas boxes were you looking at, most of the fairly decent one's run at about £100-150 without disks anyway. You get a lot more for your money even if you're only using it for storage.

I would say you'd need a fair bit of technical knowledge to get the microserver up and running, although there's some useful guides around that can help you. It's not as plug and play as most nas solutions.
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CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

The cat will appreciate the box in which the microserver arrives in.

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panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

The Synology NAS boxes are good and for basic home use they're cheap.

Very easy to setup, low power consumption and quiet.

Comes with just about all the software you're likely to want.
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UnknownStuntm... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Karma :

I think I'll sit this HP offer out, wait for the next time they're on offer and plan it a bit more. I've no fear setting up a Linux server, and to be fair I didn't think the NAS offerings would work out as expensive as the (discounted) proper solution.

Although I only want to use it as a dustbin now, I see me wanting a Zoneminder setup sometime soon too, so it does make sense to overspec somewhat.

owl · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Oct 2016 Karma :

That deal come's and goes, it also sounds like they may be releasing a new gen10 in which case the prices of the current gen8's will drop anyway.

Things do add up quickly, but you can build up the upgrades over time.

At the moment mine's running hypervisor which means I can install just about anything on it virtualised. Running Server 2016, ubuntu, debian, kali and have a few others turned off on standby, win 10, 7, xp etc for testing.

Zoneminder is running on the ubuntu box with a couple of security cams, not a bad bit of kit.

I'd like to replace the raid with a full hardware controller, but to be fair it's been fine so far.
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Sload · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Aug 2011 Karma :

Micro server is great, just don't lose your passwords Embarassed

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bacon · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Karma :

I love my HP Microserver, bought it about 2 years ago I think. I have a Gen8 with 4 x WD Red 3TB drives. All I did spec wise was add an extra 2GB of RAM, to make a total of 4GB, works fine for my basic duties.

I use it to back up all my data, I also keep copies on my desktop and my laptop. It is also used for streaming video and music across my network and providing remote access to my files when I am not at home.

I don't use it to encode video on the fly or anything, like a server running Plex would, so it doesn't get ran hard so to speak.

Oh and I run Xpenology, very very simple UI, intend on running something a little more resource efficient eventually, but this is working just fine for now.

UnknownStuntm... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Karma :

Ok. Microserver got.

Problems already though. Fecker will not boot to USB at all.

With regular incidence, I get booted from the ilo session when it tells me it's not licensed after POST.

No video output on the inboard VGA, despite fiddling with all 3 options (enabled, disabled, 'primary', 'secondary', etc.)

I obviously don't know enough.

Sload · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Aug 2011 Karma :

They are not n00b friendly, Cansa was my masked hero, and google.
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UnknownStuntm... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Karma :

UnknownStuntm... · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Karma :

ok, toys back in the pram now. Turns out they're extremely picky on USB boot media and I'm not great at reading details when picking the correct options to put the FreeNAS ISO onto it.

It's up with some semblance of OS, and I can apparently use it. Wickedlike.

I'mma call the thing Ralph.