How well will this work for an office server setup (xeon/file share/exchange/etc)? In terms of performance and reliabilty...
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If it works with your motherboard, I recommend it for its conservative ratings and stable outputs. See [H]ardOCP's PSU reviews on Seasonic. Good through testing there and Seasonic X series do very well.Powers my i7 to 4.5 GHz with 32 GB of RAM and two gtx 580 over clocked SLI cards all watercooled.
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I'm not sure about a office server but it works really well for a high powered gaming machine. 1366 mobo, 24 gig memory, 930 i7 overclocked to 4.0, 2 amd radeon 6950 graphics cards, 250 ssd, 2 1.5T WD 7200 hard drives, 2 blue ray players, 8 case fans and 2 cpu fans. Still have power to spare. Best feature is the module power connectors. You only need to plug in the cords you need, no extras
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I have it working with my HyperV-V Core 2012 server. Takes some research and some massaging of the Intel drivers after every MS update but this is also a lab environment for me. If I were to do it again though, I'd buy a more current adapter to avoid the hassle though.
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You don't mention if this is a Home network or one for an Office with many users. This would make a huge difference in the way to go. On a home network just share it from the computer it is running from, on a larger network I would agree for a user friendly setup go with the Cisco-Linksys.
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No problem at all, also works on Windows Server 2012 64bit, I have it running on RAID (mirror) set.
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Yes it should. We are running a 2012 R2 environment with 2 hyper-v 2012 servers for testing.No through put problems. However make sure your switch is configuration supports NIC aggregation if its a smart switch. This setting can be ran and managed right from the 2012 R2 & 2012 server management console.Not sure if HP has a application for NIC aggregate like broadcom and Intel does. But the 2012 windows server series seems to handle and manage it just fine. We are also running the NICs and a single point of aggregation that gives us 4Gbps uplink to the network. It's fast!
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Works fantastic with BI. I have 4 of them on blue iris running an i3 processor. This is a dedicated machine. I don't think I will add more until a processor upgrade though.
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If you're asking this question, you're *very* likely looking at wrong configuration. I suggest you shop for a desktop PC, not server, as there may be many other things surprising to you. Going back to the original question - no, it's not hard.
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I see the specs in other answers here, and while not impressive for a desktop this does perform very well when compared apples to apples. I replaced a defective atom-based mobo+cpu with this one after reading many favorable reviews about performance visa-vi the atom with a higher CPU clock speed. Paired with an SSD, this little WIndows-7 based system became a noticeable upgrade for my client, who needed a repair on a small form-factor PC for basic e-mail and internet home use. - Mark, The IT Guy San Diego
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I don't think it matters. I use mine in my small office (7 computers, 2 printers). One computer acts as a server in my local area network; they all "talk" to one another with no problems.
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I don't know if I can answer in the way you are looking for. I can tell you I purchased this to run a Virtual Machine from it. That didn't work out very well. Too slow. I can tell you copying the VM to/from the drive is very fast. Fast enough that I kept the drive to keep a backup of my VM's with me. It does seem that the copy rate is consistent from the time it starts to the time it completes.
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Yes it is a Xeon but it was released at least 6+ years ago. These are mostly still around for replacement or addition to old servers that are still in production.
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So far, for almost two years, it runs very well with Win7Pro and SSD with 16GB RAM and two 4TB drives (one internal and one external by USB 3.0) to serve as my network file server as well as my VMs (Ubuntu 12.xx and 14.xx) for computations. I never encounter any failure for this MB. Remember to install two different USB drivers (get them from ASUS driver download site) when you set up Win7/8 for enabling all the USB ports.
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mine worked fine on a dell power edge t620 running windows server 2012. I believe it was good out of the box
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Yes it should work fine for your needs, however it is not loaded with office suite.
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I would highly suggest the use of NAS type drives over standard desktop and performance drives. This drive is designed to run 24/7. You sacrifice some performance with NAS and enterprise drives but you gain reliability. My Plex server was attached to desktop external drives and they both failed a little over a year later from the amount of use they get.
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Cool, thanks for the input. I think I might pull the trigger on this one. I was thinking about building a Home Server from a POS Celeron D Compaq Presario that I already have, but the Acer's removable hard drive trays and low power consumption puts it over the top.
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It supports RAID 0 with excellent performance. That is my current configuration. Note that there is no fault tolerance with RAID 0 so you need to regularly backup your data.