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Let's go grab the E5!!!!
All aboard the hype train CHOOCHOO
Also struggling now...the disk space is a bigger issue for me however....
garhhh...decisions decisions....
I have tried too many times and still cannot install Windows server on my WSI server. I have tried with all template of joodle and my own template with pre-installed network driver, still cannot boot, sigh...
And thats what a KVM is for......
Geekbench from windows:
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/5801030
Too bad that additional ips are expensive:(
@MarkTurner: that's what DC staff for. Attaching 4 GB ISO using ancient IE version with deprecated Java because nothing else work properly with all this old DRACs and other iLOs is dubious pleasure..
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I guess they don't provide IPMI for these cheap servers.....
There is a knack to it
But it starts with not using IE and mounting media on ILO via the Java applet is not the way to do it for best performance.
Was able to load Windows on my $49 server by changing the post request for the OS reload to that of the value for the more expensive servers.
huh?
In the server control panel theres an option called "Reload Operating System", this takes you to a page with dropdowns. On this page in chrome you can edit the element and set one of the values to "OCS - Windows 2008 English Enterprise (Evaluation)" (i replaced ubuntu), then submit the edited one and it will reload it with Windows.
that's hilarious!
Yeah I can assume the code side hasn't been implemented for the other operating systems, but I assumed it would work since its technically the same machine. (Just less RAM/drive space), although you need to allocate the leftover 190~gb since it only assigns 30-40gb to the Windows drive.
True. It has to do mainly with product life cycle. a 2TH HDD costs me just as much as a 240GB SSD but the SSD is going to last me a good 4 years (life cycle, maybe not the hardware itself) where as the 2TB HDD is going to unwanted in a year. Especially with the rate at which SSD prices are falling.
garhhh...decisions decisions....
There will be dual disk options in the next week or so if you want to wait. Dual 240s, 480s and 960s.
On which config?
Someone just hadn't clicked the checkbox for those OS'. As long as they're the same platform the images will work.
@AaronW
Just want to make sure its OK for me to have installed Windows the way I did haha?
It's $10 box with E5300 CPU. Network card is Intel 82574L. I have tried to make my own template with driver support for this network card but no luck. I even don't know what I'm wrong. lol
@AaronW any chance for Windows support on these $10 servers?
You can try do what I said above, but change the option to "E3 - Windows 2012 English Standard (Evaluation)" or " HP - Windows 2008 English Standard (Evaluation)"
I already tried that:) no luck.
Ah I assume sadly their default ISO's dont have the driver for the 82574L
I have made my own template and add 82574L driver, still no luck. Didn't know why.:D
Here is my thought, grab one of these 49 bucks server (or something cheaper with a proper KVM), and mount this 10 bucks server as an iScsi target (https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/iscsi-initiator.html), now you get a very powerful computational server and a large HDD storage (500GB if you have C2D). With the 1Gbit connection (I hope) there won't be too much lagging.
Now the question for @AaronW is if internal traffic is counted, if not then this plan would be perfect.
The other idea is to get them to replace the network card...however I am not sure if WSI is willing to go through that much trouble for probably a buck or two of monthly profit.
I got the $15 server
smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Blue (SATA) Device Model: WDC WD7500AAKS-22RBA0 Serial Number: WD-WCAPT0398708 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 255e1266e Firmware Version: 30.04G30 User Capacity: 750.155.292.160 bytes [750 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-7 (minor revision not indicated) Local Time is: Sun Mar 27 05:12:59 2016 CDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (16800) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 207) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 6) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 196 184 021 Pre-fail Always - 7175 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 114 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000e 200 200 051 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 055 054 000 Old_age Always - 32998 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 051 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 051 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 113 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 291 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 331 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 109 078 000 Old_age Always - 43 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 051 Old_age Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 25024 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 24978 - # 3 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 605 - # 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 605 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.I think I'm lucky here. Get 750 GB instead of 500 GB.
Is this really 100 Mbps unmetered @AaronW ? The speedtest is over 100 Mbps....