Proliant Microserver

replaces my Netgear NAS with lots more flexibility

Small factor, quiet, good functionality, fast disk and network function, low power consumption ; Disks *are* hot swappable (contrary to HP's documentation). Disk throughput 60-70 MByte/s using green 2TB hard drives ; Internal USB socket for...

stock BIOS limits eSata port and ODD port (SB has port multiplier function that is disabled) ; Only two rear USB sockets (the front four can be rerouted to the rear using standard low-profile USB socket slot bracket) ; haven't gotten the WOL to work...

I could go on and on, but if you're really looking for a little home server you should know by the specs this will meet your needs.

small form factor. Everything seems to be rather easily accessible. Perfect for what I wanted it for which is a simple home server to handle media streaming, file sharing over Internet and an FTP server

For the price of this thing... you won't find better

I may buy a second one to put the drives from my old 4U server in, but probably a bit overkill since I totally dont need that much server/disk space in my home setup.

Quiet, small, good price ; I put a sata trayless hot swap in the cdrom port for the included 250G OS drive. Using four 2TB drives in a RAID5 (ubuntu 11.10). Also upgraded to 8GB ram ; This is an upgrade from a 4U rackmount with a four drive (500GB...

Wish the included bios had the full support for sata like the flashed rom

It's time to replace my home server, and Newegg had these as a shellshocker with an extra 2 GB of ram. I used a USB cd-rom drive for the install (instead of installing one) since it won't need a cd-rom regularly. After surfing around to see what other...

Installed FreeBSD 9 (with Samba, Ruby, ushare, ...) quickly and easily. FreeBSD recognized all of the hardware without any surprises. I added 2 more drives after the initial install - the drive racks are nice for this ; Mine is whisper quiet - the...

The case layout makes it hard to add memory. I didn't have the issue with a hard to remove SAS cable that others reported, but detaching all of the cables and then making sure they were put back in the proper place was a pain. Luckily, this is probably...

I bought this to run ESXi 4.1 and it does with any problems. If you want to learn about virtualization than this is a very easy way to get started. I increased the RAM to 8GB and that gives me plenty

iTunes wouldn't load movies into its library under windows 7 because it could not detect a sound card. I had to install a 'virtual sound card' to make it work. Now I use it to stream movies to my apple tv

Love this little baby!! Great start for a server for a SOHO network ; I maxed out the RAM and am using it as a Active Directory server

for this price ; NONE

At work I have a few of these running with 5x 3TB WD Greens. I'm using them as a NAS for some of our files in a Raid 6 (Don't judge, I needed redundancy over speed) , and they work pretty well. Linux softraid (mdadm) works wonderfully on this. The ones...

Turns out HP actually cares about their servers. I've been nothing but amazed at the build quality for the price of this box ; I had originally bought some for work, and loved them so much that I bought one for home ; Holds 4x 3.5 inch hdds ; 64bit...

Power supply is only 150 Watts ; I tried putting in 5 full size non-green drives, but I couldn't get enough juice to power the 5th. I have a few at work with 5 drives, but they're WD Green. At home it's some Samsung's and stuff. (I'm not saying...

I should have bought two. Regret sucks.

Small, simple quiet, easy install, easy setup

For $250 with Windows Home Server 2011 how can there be any cons? It's well built, intuitive and works flawlessly

My WHS 2011 hung up looking for the network driver, and I wasted a few hours hacking into the partially installed OS trying to manually install the correct driver. But the NIC just wouldn't appear. Finally I realized that, out of habit, I had turned...

While not sufficient for heavy-duty server roles, this dual-core CPU is better suited for SOHO use than the older atom-based home servers -- especially with the option to put in 8G of ecc ram. The VGA port, in addition to the PCIe slots (including a...

No real cons. Remember to look inside the door for the dvd and hd screws and wrench. Some people might want to use the 5th sata port for a separate boot drive (e.g., ssd) rather than an optical drive, but I believe it is locked in ide mode, and...

Good build for the price, I would like to get a little more horse power, or as much as I can get while still maintain a low power consuming box, Rumor has it HP may have a 2.2GHZ version on the drawing board, as some Bios pic's have surfaced on a few...

Great platform for a home server, excellent design, easy to add and install drives, open PCI slots make this unit expandable, over all easy build, would be hard to build this for the same price. For the one reviewer, the HDD screws and Torque key are...

No issues with the PSU fans as other have noticed, but I do have a bit of rattle/vibaration noise, seems to be coming from the from door, I'm still using it as a test box, but will need to add some sound damping to the door, before I decommission my...