`<div dir="ltr"><div>My take: <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-detail.html?oid=5379860">HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen8</a> (the one G1610T CPU based) or a Gen7 too: sufficiently silent (not completely silent since has 2 fans), it doesn't consume so much power (with Toshiba DT01ACAxxx drives is really silent - no vibrations), keep in mind that it needs expensive "transposers" if you're planning to use SSD 2,5" disks on its 3,5" bays (it has 4)...overall IMHO, it's compact enough and it works flawlessly with OmniOS (tested on N36L, N40L and N54L which was Gen 7). I have a few at home mostly equipped with 8GB or 16GB ECC Ram (a must with ZFS, clearly) and Toshiba 1TB/2TB HDDs. OS is installed on a dedicated 40GB Intel SSD 320 series connected into the optical drive bay through its 5th SATA cable (internal). If you're brave enough you can test OmniOS on a USB Flash...but I hard endurance troubles (so I switched to SSD for the peace of my mind)...NAS4Free (FreeBSD based) runs flawlessly on USB Stick on a pair of MicroServer I deployed as long term ZFS backup boxes (really rock solid...on a Gen 7...about 37k working hours without a single glitch). Hope it helps.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Paul Jochum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.jochum@nokia.com" target="_blank">paul.jochum@nokia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All:<br>
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Looking for the latest recommendations on a low powered and cheap OmniOS server. This would be for home use, looking to use it as way of backing up Linux and Windows boxes. Anyone have a recommendation?<br>
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thanks in advance,<br>
Paul<br>
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