HPE ProLiant Microserver Gen10 $175
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That's the Canadian version, in at about 520CAD + ship.... The exact model (1TB) is around $840CAD or so, very good deal at $175US if you can get on it...
Purchased 2 units as well, just under $400. Great place to put shucked EasyStores!
Sounds like someone needs a US shipping address and a cheap plane ticket.
@samat.io my issue is I now need more easy stores!
I got one, but now wonder if there are FreeNAS issues with the Marvell controller?
Installation stops after a few seconds on a Microserver Gen10
Installation stops after a few seconds on a Microserver Gen10
I doubt that experiment would go very well. HP is known for making things proprietary just because...
Keep watching STH "Great deals", ( then you go broke )
I posted few months ago, Newegg had the
SUPERMICRO CSE-721TQ-250B Black Mini-Tower Server Case 250W Flex ATX Multi-output Bronze Power Supply
onsale for low $75 each.
This is the case make for SM ITX boards.
Thanks @Marsh i so have a 721’s at home with d-1540 for a backup destination now, I just like the look of the HPE box.
I think everybody is right it would probably hurt to do it and find the cpu cooler won’t fit or is not tall enough or the PSU plugs are wrong which anyway makes selling the existing board hard.
I keep flirting with the idea of the SM CSE-300 1u case as a nice compact system but I also keep coming back to that being load and expensive way to do it.
Right now I am really resisting to see how much shipping is on these HPE Microservers are for me anyway as it’s too damn tempting to build a storage cluster from them... I even have at least 10 x 2tb disks + 240-256gb ssd, 10g cards to do it in a really cost minimal way for 5 nodes
I think everybody is right it would probably hurt to do it and find the cpu cooler won’t fit or is not tall enough or the PSU plugs are wrong which anyway makes selling the existing board hard.
I keep flirting with the idea of the SM CSE-300 1u case as a nice compact system but I also keep coming back to that being load and expensive way to do it.
Right now I am really resisting to see how much shipping is on these HPE Microservers are for me anyway as it’s too damn tempting to build a storage cluster from them... I even have at least 10 x 2tb disks + 240-256gb ssd, 10g cards to do it in a really cost minimal way for 5 nodes
I was telling @Patriot earlier,
$25 for the 128GB boot SATA SSD
$18 for the SATA in PCIe x4 card
$28 for a CX3 10GbE card
$199 for the microserver
That puts you at $270 or $67.50 per drive to get it connected to 10GbE.
Given, these are not fast CPUs (albeit with some GPU at least), but if you just want a small storage cluster, this is really intriguing.
$25 for the 128GB boot SATA SSD
$18 for the SATA in PCIe x4 card
$28 for a CX3 10GbE card
$199 for the microserver
That puts you at $270 or $67.50 per drive to get it connected to 10GbE.
Given, these are not fast CPUs (albeit with some GPU at least), but if you just want a small storage cluster, this is really intriguing.
Well, my concern is that they might be dumping stock on a slow moving product before something "really good" launches next year. A similar price drop occurred on the MicroServer G7 not long before the G8 announcement, and I got a weird feeling that the G11 is around the corner and either Epyc or embdded Ryzen based.
Oh yeah, expectations management - The Opteron X3216 is based on the 28nm AMD Excavator architecture, but with only 2 cores and more thermal/turboclocking headroom (15w @ 1.6 to 3.0GHz), so if you have a t630 thin client (the t620 replacement without the PCIe slot), well, that one has a quadcore excavator but thermally limited to 16w/2-2.2Ghz, and performance-wise they are about the same, or if you have the t620 plus (a very common homelab toy here), well, those 4 jaguar cores are 2GHz and 25w, and they put in about the same performance numbers. Just think of the X3216 as like a t620 Plus but with a quad SATAIII backplane. If you have an HP MicroServer Gen7 that needs replacement, it's okay (but not far enough to really make a huge impact), if you have a Gen8, it's a step backwards and not recommended. However, if it's $175 for the chassis with 8GB of RAM (1x8GB DDR4) and a single SATA non-hotplug drives, it's not entirely terrible. Hell, some of the HPe foundation care packs costs just as much as that box, if not more...and yeah, I guess you can buy a few and stack them up to form storage clusters.
Oh yeah, if you wanna see what I consider to be a decent deal for Gen10, perfect for Gen7 folks or people with BYOD and a need for more firepower, check out the X3421 barebones model on Insight - currently $486. That's Insight Part P04923-S01 - the base Gen10 but with the fastest CPU shipped for the series, no HDD included. Considering that the X3421 benchmarks much better than the X3216 (it's as fast as the i7-6560U found in the 6th Gen Skylake NUCs), you are still getting 8GB of RAM right out the gate (good enough to do some very useful stuff in the house). With Windows 10, it'll make a decent home media server. If you can get ESXi to passthrough an nVidia GT1030, it can be a compelling plex box and a light/mid-duty hypervisor. Granted, it ain't no Xeon or Eypc, but it's good bang for the buck and a slight bit more future-proof.
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Now that’s cruel suggesting they may be about to launch something better. You know just about everybody would jump on a modern AMD embedded solution... some how I think not right now but never know. If anything I was thinking they may dump it all together, everything goes to cloud.
I'm with you on this. At $200 it's even cheaper than a 4 bay Synology with similar form factor and power consumption plus I can run my own OS on it.
My only wish item that it doesn't have is IPMI. I wanted the 4C version but this price is too good to pass up. Even the used G8s are going for ~$400 on eBay.
@caplam 25lbs I believe was the listed weight.
On the X3421, I paid like $450 for it the X3421 review unit with 8GB and no drives.
As a point of comparison, the X3421 is maybe 8-10% faster than the Atom C3558.
On the X3421, I paid like $450 for it the X3421 review unit with 8GB and no drives.
As a point of comparison, the X3421 is maybe 8-10% faster than the Atom C3558.