By: JohnStutsman
One of the machines that I demonstrated at the Home Server Show Meet-up 2013 was an HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer running Windows 8 with an HDMI video card.
Parts List (as demonstrated at Meet-up 2013):
- HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer
- 16GB RAM: G.Skill 16GB F3-1333C9D-16GAO
- BIOS-Mod (I set Load Optimal Defaults in BIOS before enabling AMD SATA RAID feature and creating the RAID0 Volume in the MicroServer)
- SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5450 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card ( 100292DDR3L)
- Blu-Ray/DVD Drive in ODD bay (plus: 18” data SATA cable and Molex to SATA power converter cable)
- CyberLink PowerDVD 13
- Two (2) WD1500HLHX HDD’s in Hardware RAID0 for OS Drive
- OS: Windows 8 Pro 64b
- Office 2013 Pro
- Two (2) ST3000DM001 HDD’s in Software RAID1 for Data Drive
- Planar PX2710MW (plus: 6’ HDMI cable)
- Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech K800 & Logitech Performance MX
You can read more about how I set this up including information on the performance of the RAID’s used for the OS and Data drives at Video & Sound Cards for N40L/N54L MicroServer.
Many thanks to members of the HSS Forum MicroServer who helped me find the video card to fit my needs.
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