Giveaway: HP Microserver Gen8 and HP PS1810-8G switch

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Wannabe Geek

#924361 30-Oct-2013 18:33

I like the fact that it's so easy to expand the Microserver, and I'd use it as a media and backup server.

MsBounty

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Wannabe Geek
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#924403 30-Oct-2013 20:21

I like that it's quiet. Not a sophisticated answer I know, but I volunteer with an organisation that has a constant buzzing which drives me nuts (I've taken to wearing noise cancelling headphones which is very antisocial but does the trick). Yep, if I win it definitely gets donated to them to upgrade their technical stuff.

doublehell

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Master Geek
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#924407 30-Oct-2013 20:39

Woohoo, multi-coloured front bezels! That'll add a splash of colour to the office!

jtbthatsme

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#924420 30-Oct-2013 21:17

I love the small size and also the ease of use and accessibility this will allow for my filoes to be usable across the network without too much hassle if any at all Well done to HP on a great product. :-)

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#924464 30-Oct-2013 22:35

Just what I need to store and serve all my media content and a reliable brand with local support win win

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alvin

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Master Geek
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#924467 30-Oct-2013 23:00

With the size of HP Microserver Gen8, this is the perfect home server for me. It also includes two up front usb ports for easy deployment.

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dacraka

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#924481 31-Oct-2013 00:05

The feature that attracts me most is the four 3.5” bays, I have multiple hard drives doing nothing at home so being able to use them all in the HP server will give me a chance to use RAID for both capacity and data durability which I cannot do with my current NAS situation.

cws82us

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#924495 31-Oct-2013 01:28

Man this will be great for my home server

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Wannabe Geek

#924499 31-Oct-2013 03:38

HP's MicroServer would make a spectacular Hyper-V server. Especially with an addin SAS RAID card.

Thanks geekzone for providing this review and giveaway!

stingray92

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Wannabe Geek

#924500 31-Oct-2013 04:07

I am a proud owner of a hp microserver n54l, and I'm enthusiastic with it.
I have being using it as my home server as a files server, torrentbox, media server etc.
I recently incorporated it into my vSphere home lab as my "poor's man SAN".

Now I see that it got even better: more processing grunt, dual NICs, USB 3 ports... I can only imagine what I could do with it!

Ziggy74

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Wannabe Geek

#924501 31-Oct-2013 04:43

The 16gb max ram and dual ethernet ports (2gbs throughput with trunking? /drool) alone, would make this a valuable upgrade to my home network. My current EasyStore h430 currently hosts multiple movie & tv show library streams, PC game files, remote boot and client backups and lord help me if I ran a VM on it simultaneously! LOL