HP Microserver
This is my Microserver N36L – E01
The HP Microserver N36L is a nifty piece of hardware, it’s very small and very well built and enginered .
It has 4 HDD slots and provides the rails to ease the access and substitution of the HDDs, the motherboard can slip of off the case when you unscrew the two thumb screws and disconnect some cables, so the 2 ram slots and the PCIe slots are easily serviceable.
The Microserver can be filled with a maximum of 8gb of ram making it perfect for building a ESX based home lab.
It supports perfectly ESXi 4.1 and 5, all the hardware is recognized and works without problems.
It’s form factor is pretty small and it’s very silent, it’s power consumption is much lower than a traditional server.
Pros:
- small
- silent
- HDDs easily accessible
- motherboard easily accessible
- low power consumption
Cons:
- limit of 8gb of ram
- comes without cd reader
- very small inside
Wrap up:
it’s perfect for the home lab, home server or if you want to build a NAS.