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HP ProLiant MicroServer from HP $199 + Free Shipping

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The HP proliant microserver is back again. This time it can be ordered directly on the HP site for $199 with free shipping.

To get to the page:

  1. Go to http://h20386.www2.hp.com/AustraliaStore/
  2. Put in the coupon in the affiliate box. (not my affiliate if that is what it truely is)
  3. There should then be a "Tech at Work Server Promotion" on the left. Click on this and order away.

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      • I'm assuming we can also use normal desktop non-ecc RAM on it? Does it have to be ecc? Will go looking for ram today.

        • Normal ram will work too

        • Don't assume! But in this case, yes, standard ram will work.

      • Link please??

    • Suggest heading over to OCAU where they regularly have specials.

  • hoping HP have enough stock to dispatch all OzB orders placed today !

  • I'm still logged on to the Affiliate Cattalog and can add it to my cart..

  • absolute win….also purchased

  • I was thinking of getting a used Core2duo machine to do my fileserver/torrent/htpc work
    I assume the advantage of the microserver is the low power consumption, but is a core2duo really going to use that much more power?

    • but is a core2duo really going to use that much more power?

      That depends which CPU and which chipset you get.
      Core2 vary a lot in idle power, even if TDP is the same.

  • For a HTPC what remote do you use?

  • Any idea how cool these run when fully populated. Obviously the amount of heat generated depends on the type of drives you put in but overall does the chassis have decent airflow?

    • +2

      Very cool.
      About 25degrees. Decent airflow. Fan at back sucking out all the hot air. Mesh front to allow clean air to enter.

      • Sounds good, ordered one. Thanks for the info :)

  • I seriously wish I had money for this. =/

    • +1 sadly I have bought too much of late

  • Thanks OP, I just bought one too. Hope HP gets these out the door!

    • This didnt come from OP. It was stolen from Whingpool.

      All credit should goto dbx @ http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1697165&p…

      • +3

        All hail dbx!

        Happy now? :D

      • +3

        Well since I dont waste my time on WhingePool, I'm thankfull that OP posted deal here- and rightly deserves credit for deal.

        OP posted deal here (regardless of where he found it) = credit.

  • DAMMIT ANOTHER MISSED UBER BARGAIN!

  • Are there any backplate spaces, where one could mount a 2x internal sata -> 2x e-sata bracket?

    • They already have 1x esata.

      Are there any backplate spaces,

      They also have 2x half-height slots:

      Expansion Slots:
      Slot 1: PCI-Express Gen 2 x16 connector with x16 link
      Slot 2: PCI-Express Gen 2 x1 connector with x1 Link

      However;

      where one could mount a 2x internal sata

      They only have 1x standard internal sata port - for the internal 5.25" bay.

      The 4x 3.5" drive bays are feed by a single cable on the motherboard.

      You could also add a sata / esata drive controller card to one of the two half-height slots. Or you could get a couple of half-height USB3.0 controllers.

  • Just bought one half hour ago.

    I will think of something to use it for :)

  • What is Tech at Work?

    • a preferable label than 'n00b Money Pit'

  • Just ordered and it still works. Thanks!

  • -1

    Mine is a asterisk box (VoIP server) but likely to get repurposed as a NAS soon, great value but for the same dosh you can get a micro itx (amd) and itx case that will be twice as fast.

    • great value but for the same dosh you can get a micro itx (amd) and itx case that will be twice as fast.

      So for $200 delivered you can get a itx case with 4x internal 3.5" bays + 1 external 5.25" bay, power supply, 1GB RAM, 250GB drive, motherboard and CPU - which is twice as fast as the HP one?

      Link?

      • Dont forget a 150W Mini PSU

    • +2

      I too am curious where you can find said box.

    • I think using this as an Asterix box (especially at home) is a bit of overkill and a waste of power. Why not buy a Rowetel Embedded Asterix device? They use around 3-5 watts.

  • Does anyone know if these suckers can boot off USB sticks?

    • +1

      The motherbaord has onboard usb port so you can boot any os internally on a USB stick. You can also copy bootable installation media/iso to usb and install from there. Since there Microservers do not come with optical drive.

      • Hopefully they haven't done any funnies so that you can use the external ones as well. I want at least two. Thanks, though.

        • +3

          yes in bios set USB boot priority to High and it will boot of z bootable usb flash drive plugged into any of the usb ports on the Microserver.

          You can also use a utility such as "YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator" to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive containing one or more bootable images.

          http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

          Not sure how it would cope if you have two bootable usb flash drives connected at the same time on startup.

    • yes infact there is an internal usb for this purpose

    • +1

      Yes u can. Just like any other PC! Aamzing isnt it? Apple should revolutionise that and market it and profit!!!

      Yea the mobo inside has it's own USB slot too for this purpose so u dont have to have a crappy usb stick dangleing at the back. Sever style

      • Companies such as HP, Apple, Dell, etc tend to play silly-buggers with components of a PC so as to differentiate products. That way they can sell products at different price points, that are otherwise exactly the same (and so grabbing a greater slice of the market pie).

        Dell, for eg, have/are selling 100MB ethernet ports on their MBs (not too long ago) of their desktop line so as to help differentiate them from their more expensive workstation line. Others have crippled serial ports (using h/w that was capable of much more but just not allowed to) and so on.

        There's fun times out there and just because a PC has certain hardware, does not mean that its manufacturer has decided to let you use it in the way that you want/expect.

  • Great Post.

    I don't need one…I already have a server, but I ordered one just because of the bargain.

    Now I'm $200 poorer. :(

  • No No No No No…. aghhhhhhh!

    OK noticed this last night… got to the order page and found I could not order with foreign creditcard, did not want to go find my OZ one… so I thought:

    "I really really honestly dont need this… wait until morning, it will be sold out"

    But it was not!

    So I just had to buy one. Will very much look forward to the increased CPU power and extra possibiities this will offer over my old ReadyNAS NV+ …

    Cheers OP… great bargain… my bank balance hates you very much :-)

  • -1

    Does this come with any operating system?

    • No.

      • +1

        Plenty of free alternatives out there bud.

  • nice find. bought one for me and my mate. will probably replace my QNAP TS-210 and try freeNAS. better CPU and more HDD slots are a bonus over my QNAP.

  • I am current using my old Centrino 1.6 laptop with 1 usb desktop 640G HDD for my file server, all together it only use around 25w during the bt downloading, can this HP server do better than that?

    • Yes. Mine is 18W when accessed, 13W idle

    • hardly fair comparison, but yes…. would do better than 25w if you stuck in even one 2TB WD Green HD. Leaching off the internet isnt what this thing is built for. Would like to see your laptop serve data at same rate though.

  • Thanks OP been watching these for a while! Me and 3 workmates jumped on it =D

    Now I'm considering 4GB ECC sticks from Tiger-Direct along with the 3TB Hitachi 5K3000 Coolspins

    $45USD for the sticks of ram, $129 for the HDDs :)

    • Now I'm considering 4GB ECC sticks from Tiger-Direct along with the 3TB Hitachi 5K3000 Coolspins
      $45USD for the sticks of ram, $129 for the HDDs

      Link? Shipping?

      • Tiger-Direct is a huge US store.. not sure about direct shipping but I'm basing this on using mail-redirector www.priceusa.com

        item price = 611.86 (4 x 3TB 5K3000, 2 x 4GB ECC)
        US shipping = 8.77 (to PriceUSA postcode in Oregon, for 7lbs of weight)
        delivery protection = 24.0665 (required by PriceUSA.. 2.5% of item + shipping cost)
        shipping to AUS = 64 (estimate from USPS)
        PriceUSA total in USD = 708.6965
        Price = 688.0548544

        So.. given that ScorpTec have the rams for $69 locally, as long as they can do the drives for $135 it'd be better to go there (assuming $15 shipping)

    • Never heard of Tiger-Direct
      Are they reliable (and cheap?)

      • I ordered from them when I was in Canada and they are good. Not sure about oversea shipping.

        • So it's the US TigerDirect.com, who only take wire-transfers for international orders, and (from what I hear) charges ridiculous international shipping fees.

        • I used tigerdirect.ca not .com. and I haven't look for international orders, sorry.
          I know that tigerdirect bought compusa a while ago, may have a look to see what they have to offer.

    • Got a link ?

    • -4

      No. Must be DDR3 ECC

      DDR3 PC3-10600, DDR3 (ECC) to be exact.

    • +1

      Yes it will, but MSY always runs out of that model (I tried to buy a few times), so I bought the 4Gig DDR3 1333 Kingston instead. 8Gig recognised on mine fine. Plus you could just get 1x4Gib and use existing 1Gig ECC (it'll run as non-ECC mode).

      Not sure of benefit of ECC for a home server?

      • I agree…. ECC RAM in home server is a complete waste. For most people buying this deal here (running NAS/HTPC setup) ECC is a waste of money and will offer no benefit. Better to put money towards more actual memory using non-ECC.

  • Great, just bought one to replace my recently dead old laptop mldonkey server

  • Unbuffered ECC RAM is pretty cheap on eBay. 1066 2x2GB is roughly same price as non-ECC 1333 at MSY @ ~$33, but 1x4 1333 costs a bit more @ ~$45.

  • +2

    A mate was having trouble ordering this so to help him I followed the instructions (very easy) and at the checkout page thought "bugger it" and ordered one for myself ;-)

    thanks for posting this OP.

    • LOL - you did right

      This happenned to me last time (the first OZB deal) I forced my mate to bought one but didn't bought for myself

      After a loooooooong painful wait - today is FREEDOM - thnaks OP

  • good deal.

  • Awesome available again, I missed out last time.

  • Nice, I was just thinking of getting a file server and this is perfect :)

  • Hey Guys,

    I currently have two apple tv 2s in my house running xbmc connected via Ethernet to an old computer using smb. They are kind of laggy in menus and I have an iPad for remote. Could I buy this, get a hdmi splitter alongside a cheap radeon hdmi graphics card and sell the two apple tvs. Running hdmi to both rooms would be a max of 15-20m from a room that's in central to both, would that work?

    Would this machine be quicker then an apple tv running xbmc if I was download at the same times using torrent etc.

    Thanks!

    • HDMI splitter would probably not work since it's a digital signal. The TV probably wouldn't recognise a split HDMI signal. A HDMI switch (so you could use the machine on one tv OR the other might work)

      • Cheap video card with dual hdmi output?

        • no such thing afaik.

        • The problem is finding a half-height dual hdmi output card.

          There's plenty of 1xDVI / 1xHDMI cards:
          http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&c…

          But getting sound out of that DVI output will be an issue without a sound card with a digital output, and a TV that can take optical/coax sound and DVI (or HDMI with a cheap adaptor) on the same input.

          If you can live with stereo sound on the 2nd output, a cheap USB sound card + the above card should work. Assuming your TV has a "PC input" which usually takes a DVI cable and a 3.5mm stereo input jack on the one input.

      • So why exactly wouldn't a 1 in 2 out hdmi splitter work? I thought that waswha they were used for?

        Edit: something like this? http://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Splitter-Amplifier-Dual-Display/d…

        • I've got a HDMI splitter myself. I use it to feed both a LCD and projector. It tends to "confuse" my HTPC and I have issues with the desktop changing resolutions all the time. 1080p24/1080p50/1080p60 and sometimes 720p50/720p60.

          Unplugging it and replugging it usually fixes it, but only if one of the devices (TV or projector) is turned off.

          I'd call it a last resort. Plus it cost me ~$100. Edit: (just checked and they're now $50)
          http://www.ezyhd.com.au/hdmi-splitter.html

          If you can get a working system with a $40 video card and a $10 usb sound card, I'd try that first.

        • Sounds like there's bidirectional communication happening there, in which case a raw splitter would confuse things (as both monitors try to say howdy to the PC). This is probably why it works if you replug it in with one of the monitors connected only.

          This is just all a guess, though, based on Chris's description.

        • Sounds like there's bidirectional communication happening there

          Yep. It's getting two different answers, or it thinks it's outputting to the LCD when it's actually outputting to the projector or vice versa.

          I've got an older version than the one I linked to, so maybe the new ones are better. I don't know.

          But a single video card with the "clone" function would be a lot more foolproof.

  • Bought two this morning. Very good price, thanks for posting!

  • RE: pepitovfr
    Must be DDR3 ECC

    This unit can take either ECC and non-ECC - not sure if you can mix-n-match.

    I have mine running 2x4GB non-ECC sticks. Not using as a server so don't need ECC RAM.

  • +3

    Ordered one!

    Now I can start reading all those 'I've got an HP Microserver' threads without feeling bitter ;)

  • Have they removed the TECHWRK login?

    "Invalid Log In. If you need further assistance, please contact a sales consultant at 1300 304 889."

  • Looks like I ordered mine with only minutes to spare ;-)

    http://i.imgur.com/e6G5V.jpg

  • HP Got Whingpool'ed, OCAU'ed and OzBargained in 18hrs

  • -1

    Spewing I just tried to order one and missed out :(

  • Finished.. probably a good thing.. stopped me from spending more money :)

  • score .. i was still in the order form when they ended the promo .. and it let me still continue with the purchase .. if only i did an update to more machines now :P

    • +1

      haha, same here… I put it in my cart, then looked around the Internet to see if I really wanted it… After some searching and weighing pros/cons, I finally decided to do it.

      Upon refresh of this page however, saw that it had ended. All good though, got my order in. :D

  • Awesome deal!, not sure if I got one of the last one's
    Can't wait to rip into this little beauty!

  • any idea where i can get windows home server 11 cheap? and deals or promo around?

  • Truely gone, they probably sold 500 units within a day as this is not the only forum that toke advantage of the promotion.

    • I see what you bud there.

  • finished

  • I've got the cart saved, not sure if it will work but I can email the cart to people?

    • probably wont work .. i'd go in and check it and if it still works .. get it put through ASAP~!!!

      • Well, I change my order to 10 and it will let me check out. So it seems like it will work…

      • Ignore…. just tried and the email cart is just a "quotation". No link to open the cart itself.

  • This deal has (in this go) already attracted over 200 +'s from OB members…

    So, how come it's not made the Top Deals list (again)…?!?

    Does it take moderator approval to "authorise" a top deal to be listed as one? :-/

    PS At time of posting, the current Top Deal had only 146 votes.

    • +1

      this deal is expired now, thats why.

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