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Here goes with a thread for anyone who's picked up one of HP's new tiny servers.
Some links
HP links:
- http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009.html
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02503517
- http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13716_na/13716_na.html
I've not bothered taking pictures cos I found these links:
- http://www.tenniswood.co.uk/technology/review-hp-microserver-for-windows-home-server/
- http://blog.livedoor.jp/pasocompass/archives/51728909.html
- http://blog.livedoor.jp/pasocompass/archives/51729497.html
The outer casing is all plastic, except for the front door and the rear panel, which are both perforated for airflow.
Hardware, expansions and upgrades
The case is small, so you have to pull out the motherboard to work on it - which is fiddly, mainly because you have to unplug almost every cable from it before it will slide out far enough.
The box comes with 1GB RAM, a single DDR3 stick, leaving the other slot free. So far, I have added a further 4GB stick, and it seems quite happy with both installed, so, 5GB RAM for now. The Kingston part no. for the 4GB stick is KVR1333D3E9S/4G.
HP ship it with a single 160GB SATA drive. Mine arrived with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3160318AS (7200 rpm 8MB cache) drive, with an HP-specific firmware version. All the drive caddies, screws and even a tool, are provided, for ease of adding more disks. If you look on the back (inside) of the front door, everything is stored there. You can see the group of four screws for the optical drive, a small torx key, and a row of HDD mounting screws across the bottom edge. Nice.
With 5GB RAM, and three disks installed (Seagate ST3160318AS 160GB 7200 rpm and 2 x Samsung HD154UI 1.5TB 5400 rpm), the server is using about 30W. Disks were all spinning, but nothing much happening on the box.
OS support
I have installed CentOS 5.5 x86_64. Bit of a faff, will expand later.
Also tried a FreeBSD 8.1 live CD (actually sub.mesa's ZFSguru 0.1.7 preview ISO) and to my surprise, the NIC seems to have been picked up OK.
Tried FreeNAS 0.7.2 - FreeNAS-amd64-LiveCD-0.7.2.5462.iso - i.e. the latest (as at 25/10/2010) FreeNAS build based on FreeBSD 7.3. Disks and NIC picked up OK.
As detailed in a later post, NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0.3 installs and sees the SATA controller and NIC fine.
More to add here....
Other stuff
... will be added soon. Please feel free to ask any questions.
cheers Andy

Some links
HP links:
- http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009.html
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02503517
- http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13716_na/13716_na.html
I've not bothered taking pictures cos I found these links:
- http://www.tenniswood.co.uk/technology/review-hp-microserver-for-windows-home-server/
- http://blog.livedoor.jp/pasocompass/archives/51728909.html
- http://blog.livedoor.jp/pasocompass/archives/51729497.html
The outer casing is all plastic, except for the front door and the rear panel, which are both perforated for airflow.
Hardware, expansions and upgrades
The case is small, so you have to pull out the motherboard to work on it - which is fiddly, mainly because you have to unplug almost every cable from it before it will slide out far enough.
The box comes with 1GB RAM, a single DDR3 stick, leaving the other slot free. So far, I have added a further 4GB stick, and it seems quite happy with both installed, so, 5GB RAM for now. The Kingston part no. for the 4GB stick is KVR1333D3E9S/4G.
HP ship it with a single 160GB SATA drive. Mine arrived with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3160318AS (7200 rpm 8MB cache) drive, with an HP-specific firmware version. All the drive caddies, screws and even a tool, are provided, for ease of adding more disks. If you look on the back (inside) of the front door, everything is stored there. You can see the group of four screws for the optical drive, a small torx key, and a row of HDD mounting screws across the bottom edge. Nice.
With 5GB RAM, and three disks installed (Seagate ST3160318AS 160GB 7200 rpm and 2 x Samsung HD154UI 1.5TB 5400 rpm), the server is using about 30W. Disks were all spinning, but nothing much happening on the box.
OS support
I have installed CentOS 5.5 x86_64. Bit of a faff, will expand later.
Also tried a FreeBSD 8.1 live CD (actually sub.mesa's ZFSguru 0.1.7 preview ISO) and to my surprise, the NIC seems to have been picked up OK.
Tried FreeNAS 0.7.2 - FreeNAS-amd64-LiveCD-0.7.2.5462.iso - i.e. the latest (as at 25/10/2010) FreeNAS build based on FreeBSD 7.3. Disks and NIC picked up OK.
As detailed in a later post, NexentaStor Community Edition 3.0.3 installs and sees the SATA controller and NIC fine.
More to add here....
Other stuff
... will be added soon. Please feel free to ask any questions.
cheers Andy
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