At the start of August this year I attended TechEd Africa.
As some of you would remember I was the lucky winner of one of Hewlet Packard South Africa’s giveways at the event, unfortunately I did not get the prize as I was not present at the drawing of the prize.
A few days ago, a representative, Samantha from Hewlet Packard contacted me with great news, they saw my grievance on my blog and decided to give me the same server with Windows software!
At the event they actually sold these machines(only the machine) for a giveaway of R499, so I already bought two(which was the minimum).
So now after I recieve this one as well, I will have 3 x Hewlet Packard Proliant M110 G5 servers.
I’ve already installed one of my machines at home with FREENAS, which is running smoothly, though just a “glorified” file server.
Good quality and reasonably priced(not the same as the TechEd prices though) for anyone wanting to buy an entry level server for their small SME or organisation.
This is a very sturdy and compact system, with enough additional space for adding a couple of more drives in. The G5 also come with RAID( 6 port SATA controller with embedded RAID (4 available for Hard Disks)) support which is a good start to experiement for from home.
With these machines, you get 250GB SATA HDD and 1 GB RAM as well.
Thank you Hewlet Packard for getting back to me on, great to see companies following the web and finding and helping out consumers with their problems.