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HP - ProLiant Ultra Micro Tower Server - 1 x AMD Turion II Neo N40L 1.50 GHz
Average customer rating
4.6
(9 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 9 reviews
5 Stars
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4 Stars
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89%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for HP - ProLiant Ultra Micro Tower Server - 1 x AMD Turion II Neo N40L 1.50 GHz
Customer Rating
5
very good NAS
on January 24, 2012
Posted by: disposable
Gender:Male
I purchased this to replace a D-Link NAS which was quite slow in serving files. For roughly the same price, I got transfer speeds often exceeding 90MB/s on NFS. That's MB not Mb.
I run Debian GNU/Linux on this, but have tested it with NexentaOS and OpenIndiana (OpenSolaris clones). Both of them installed and ran with no problems.
With Win Server 2008r2 I was able to get 35 - 45 MBps on large files (smb sharing) but this was slow, expensive, memory hungry and pointless for a headless machine.
The CPU has virtualisation extensions and allows one to run a few virtual machines (I use it with VirtualBox).
The motherboard has room for memory expansion and you can also plug in 2 pci-express cards (1x and 16x). I personally installed another network card and use 802.3ad bonding to get even faster file serving on my home network.
negatives:
When you insert your harddrives (vertically), each of them will have about a milimeter of side to side leeway. This gives room for vibrations. With 4 disks, one can get a pretty mighty hum. Laying the server on its side, which puts the disks in horizontal orientation, stopped the vibrations.
When you insert your harddrives (vertically), each of them will have about a milimeter of side to side leeway. This gives room for vibrations. With 4 disks, one can get a pretty mighty hum. Laying the server on its side, which puts the disks in horizontal orientation, stopped the vibrations.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
5
Fast
on March 7, 2012
Posted by: RancidBadger
Gender:Male
It is fast and quiet running SBS 2011.
I have it with a Crucial m4 SSD 128GB which is also very lightweight so I haven't put the drive in a caddy it just plugs straight into the sata connector in the drive bay and stays put!!
This has been an upgrade from an ML110 which required you to wear ear defenders.
Peace at last.
It looks good with the HP logo glowing BLUE.
Whilst it has a bunch of USB2 ports on the front, I wish it had USB3.
PLEASE put usb 3 on the next version.
I have it with a Crucial m4 SSD 128GB which is also very lightweight so I haven't put the drive in a caddy it just plugs straight into the sata connector in the drive bay and stays put!!
This has been an upgrade from an ML110 which required you to wear ear defenders.
Peace at last.
It looks good with the HP logo glowing BLUE.
Whilst it has a bunch of USB2 ports on the front, I wish it had USB3.
PLEASE put usb 3 on the next version.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
4
Excellence cubed
on September 1, 2011
Posted by: Ubermik
Gender:Male
Although this is "supposed" to be a server I actually bought two. One to use as a low power machine for general daily use and the other to use as an alternative to a NAS
Although HP dont offer drivers for it the machines work perfectly with Windows7 with the only things letting it down for "alternative uses" being the lack of any form of sound or built in raid 5
As there are two PCI-e slots both of these could potentially be added but would probably push the price up higher than buying a better specced system to begin with.
But with the addition of a low power graphics card with HDMI these can serve as a low power HTPC with digital sound, or as a net-top with a cheap USB soundstick
As raid5 is so common now even on cheap motherboards its quite dissapointing that AMD only included raid 0+1 in this chipset, and adding even basic 2 channel sound to the motherboard would have opened up so many other uses for this product for practically no additional cost at all
Other minor gripes is the layout could easily have been improved drastically simply by swapping which sides the PSU and drive cage were on as this would have massively reduced the faffing with cables to remove the motherboard
But none of those things make this a "bad" product, infact inspite of all of those minor flaws this is an excellent little product. Very quiet, very low powered, reasonably expandable, very small, excellent price and solidly constructed
Had the product had raid5, sound, less crammed cabling and a standard ITX motherboard layout this would however have been I believe a computer legend in the making and would have opened up a huge amount of markets outside of the server and SOHO ones and would be one of those products that in 10 years time computer magazines would be doing nostalgic articles about
And with the added benefit that none of those alterations would have detracted from its suitability for its intended market sectors
I was SOOOOO close to giving 5 stars, but as it could have been improved so much by making such tiny changes I would have liked to have given 4.5 stars but had to settle on 4 stars instead
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
5
Nice Little Box
on August 22, 2011
Posted by: Dansoft
Gender:Male
Brought to make the office quieter than the old HP DL380 that we previously had and now the UPS is louder than the Server. Filled it with 8Gb Ram and 3 more 2Tb Hard drives and a very usefull little box happily running MS Server 2008 R2 x64
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
5
Great little server
on May 11, 2012
Posted by: ihilliard
Gender:Male
I was looking for a cost effective server to use as a development server and this little box fits the bill perfectly on price and power.
I have it running 2GB and CentOS 6 as a LAMP application server; It performs very well.
Now I'm planning to use more for clients.
I have it running 2GB and CentOS 6 as a LAMP application server; It performs very well.
Now I'm planning to use more for clients.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
5
Brilliant for the price
on April 24, 2014
Posted by: Danb
Gender:Male
I've been using this server now for over 3 months so can't comment on long term reliability but in short it does what it says in the tin. Not going to be the fastest server in world but for the price it does a decent job . I use this mainly as a media server and doesn't struggle with any high res vides or movies . Can't say a bad word about it.
Only thing I could say is it would be nice to have hot swappable HDD
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
2
Never again HP
on January 8, 2013
Posted by: quickd
Gender:Male
I am Head of Systems Management for an international healthcare company but also a keen amateur photographer. I have 50,000 digital images and was the server was a gift from my wife a year ago. It has never achieved the read/write speeds quoted. Just after Christmas it died - power supply failure. Surely even small server PSUs should last more than 12 months? HP refused to fix under warranty, saying it was the purchase date on the invoice that counted and not the date given and registered. Never again HP, at home or in my company.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com
Customer Rating
5
Outstanding for PBX over IP
on September 14, 2012
Posted by: bruno
Gender:Male
We have released our last SW edition on micro server. HW deliver outstanding performance for running S(m)B telco platform.
Installation of Telnowedge iPBX SW distribution based on Ubuntu + asterisk is achieved in 7 minutes. no more.
Starting using it for very small Call Center with no fear.
Great Product !
Installation of Telnowedge iPBX SW distribution based on Ubuntu + asterisk is achieved in 7 minutes. no more.
Starting using it for very small Call Center with no fear.
Great Product !
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting hp.com