This seems to come round now and again, & be well received, so thought it worth a mention.. seen 2 different ones being offered by ebuyer with cashback over the last week.. (though I have no idea if they are any good)
[url= http://www.ebuyer.com/715110-hp-proliant-ml10-v2-entry-pentium-g3240-3-1-ghz-4gb-ram-micro-814483-031?utm_source=2015-09-14&utm_medium=campaign_email&utm_campaign=B2C_%28Monday%29_Openers ]Current offer for HP ProLiant ML10[/url]
I have no doubt other sellers are/will be offering the same...
[url= http://www.ebuyer.com/722189-hp-proliant-gen8-g1610t-4gb-ram-microserver-819185-421 ]This is the one you want.[/url]
Although looking at it it's nowhere near as well priced as the previous generation AMD models. You could build something yourself for a similar price.
[url= http://www.ebuyer.com/722189-hp-proliant-gen8-g1610t-4gb-ram-microserver-819185-421 ]correct link hopefully[/url]
If you're purely comparing with a whitebox PC then maybe. A case that size that'll take 4x3.5" drives (plus an SSD up top if you get an extra cable), plus a power supply, motherboard, CPU, RAM would be tricky for £115 these cost.
It has dual NICs and proper HP iLO management, although you do have to licence it to get full functionality. I've just got one to replace an old home NAS and am very pleased with it so far.
Cheers for the PSA, price seems good to me. I have an N40L and it's been great. This looks even better with the iLO etc.
any issues running them as linux servers rather than windows
The 'real' Proliants are officially supported for Linux. I'd expect the same to be true of the Microservers.
Supported for RHEL and SLES. [url= http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201306-13791/ ]Ubuntu have certified it too.[/url] I've seen various guides on installing CentOS and others too.
I take the point that it has a lot more features than a standard PC but for home use as a media server or NAS you can get a build for about the same price (integrated AMD APU on ITX) if you're not fussed about the case. The old ones came with a drive as well for the same price.
For a complete build though its still good value but, as I said, not as good as the 7th gen.
[url= https://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/hp_tower_servers/819185-421 ]Cheaper link[/url]
squirrelking - Member
I take the point that it has a lot more features than a standard PC but for home use as a media server or NAS you can get a build for about the same price (integrated AMD APU on ITX) if you're not fussed about the case. The old ones came with a drive as well for the same price.
Well they came with a tiny drive that everybody took out and threw away.
I think to compare it to a self-build with a cheap case misses the beauty of these things which is that it's a cheap, but still a properly built HP server. Just like their Proliant models, the drives click nicely in place, everything is mounted securely, they come apart easily (and with a single tool), cooling is good, spares available etc.
Bargain!
I bought the previous generation (N54L) microserver last year on a cashback deal, ended up costing £80 !
Put xpenology on it, fitted 2x2Tb HDDs and I've now got a very powerful Synology powered NAS box, marvellous.