[Ukfreebsd] nice little storage server for 112GBP
Timothy Baldock
tb at entropy.me.uk
Fri Dec 31 11:58:06 GMT 2010
How's the driver support on the hardware? I spotted this device last
week while researching NAS devices for the office and at that price
(didn't know about the rebate) it's very tempting to get one to play
with at home...
Any chance you could email me a dmesg output for it?
Thanks,
Timothy
On 31/12/2010 11:18, Mark Blackman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just thought I would let everyone know about this
> deal on this potential storage server, if you've not seen it.
>
> http://www.it247.com/product/1/XXHSUK23/612275-421-HP-ProLiant-MicroServer-Dual-Core-1-3Ghz-AMD-Athlon-II.html
>
> It's 212.82 inc. VAT and then 100 pounds cash back from HP, so pretty cheap
> for a something with 4 hot-swap drive bays with low power consumption and
> fairly quiet.
>
> No optical drive, but a handy little chassis to install freenas or similar on
> and add some cheap 1TB drives to.
>
> The cashback was supposed to end today, but now extended to end of January.
>
> needless to say, i've picked one up and installed FreeBSD 8.2RC1 on with
> ZFS across 4-drives (only 1 160GB drive is included).
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
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