HP ProLiant Gen8 G1610T MicroServer - £149 (after cashback)

[prezzy]

Ebuyer are doing the HP ProLiant Gen8 G1610T MicroServer for £184.98 then you can get cashback of £35 from HP making it £149 - just grabbed one to have a play with, plenty of upgrade options on it cpu etc - seems a pretty good deal for one of these.

Offer is HERE must be ordered and delivered before the 31st January to get the cashback from HP

[brumbino]

Bollocks just bought a Mk 1 Microserver offa fleabay for £120

[prezzy]

Mine arrived today, cracked an ssd in for os plus 4 3tb drives all up and running. Great bit of kit for the money quality for £149, just need to install more ram to get it to 16gb also thinking about whack1ng a better cpu in it

[hoponbaby]

Are the cpu's socked on these now then? The older N36's etc were soldered directly to the board.

[evilsatan]

They are 1155 sockets I believe, you can put a Xeon CPU in there IIRC. Saw these deals last week and am very tempted although I have only just started populating my N54l so might hold off a little while.

[prezzy]

Are the cpu's socked on these now then? The older N36's etc were soldered directly to the board.

Yeah cpu can be upgraded no probs not soldered - a great resource for this server here - http://homeservershow.com/forums/ind...links/?p=62151

List of comaptible cpu's on there

[prezzy]

wow when did RAM get so expensive? DDR3 SDRAM ECC unbuffered which is needed is around £80 for 8gig

[stimpy]

This is seriously tempting. My old server (old PC) is on its last legs.

Only 2GB of RAM though and the price of ECC RAM is my only concern.

[Lou_smorals]

Hi
wow, I want one.....look at these that fit on top of it, so cool

http://www.dabs.com/products/hp-ps18...1810-8G&src=16


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id22RPbNB0c

LS

[evilsatan]

Extra tenner off until Friday at eBuyer. Finding it hard to resist atm.

[Lou_smorals]

Hi
oh shit, so hard to resist the unnecessary upgrade ......so tempting
LS

[evilsatan]

I made a cheeky Flubit request just to see if they lowered it any further but I doubt you can claim cashback on a Flubit purchase.

[prezzy]

I made a cheeky Flubit request just to see if they lowered it any further but I doubt you can claim cashback on a Flubit purchase.

Good luck with that!

Loving my Microserver best bit of kit I have bought in a while!

Just having a play around with Plex never really looked at it before and it rocks, shared to a few pc's and the server going strong.

I reckon I will be upgrading the cpu to a xeon 1220l some time soon . . .

[evilsatan]

Flubit offered another £11 off so just over £160 but I doubt you can claim cashback as the fulfilment company seems to be Flubit just drop shipping. I have had my past Flubit purchases sent from ebuyer.

[evilsatan]

Back on until the end of March:
http://h41111.www4.hp.com/egpromo/uk...Gen8-Offer.pdf

I am going for it now as I want to install ESXI as a testbed.

[Mystical_2K]

i have one of these running with Xpenology that was ordered from the initial cashback offer, fantastic bit of kit

[evilsatan]

£60 cashback for G1610t bought between 1-30th April. Annoying as I just bought a few last month for jobs! Makes it £120 which is an absolute bargain.

http://image.ebuyer.com/customer/pro...015%20V1_0.pdf

[Mystical_2K]

got my cashback the other day so well happy
new price is even better for those who aint grabbed one yet - bargain!

[Lou_smorals]

Hi
I just ordered one.
Thanks
LS

[Squizza]

I know the answer to the first question is yes, but as a noob with this stuff I would like some help before I decide to jump in.

* I gather this would be a fantastic replacement for my NAS box and in doing so I would never look back?
* Can I add disks/memory as I go along
* Without the iLO license is it still usable. (A guy at work pointed out that Tesco marketplace have these for £54! http://www.tesco.com/direct/hewlett-...s/329-1618.prd)
* Would this replace what my MacMini does now (Sickbeard, VPN Server, SABNZBD, Plex etc..)
* To get me up and running, how much would I be looking at for a basic set up (including discount).

Thanks