Yes I did. Runs pretty smoothly while simultaneously streaming to iOS devices.

I agree with you Gechurch when it comes to small businesses you don't want to be messing around with processors from third party. This was a home grown project for personal use, so costs were a consideration. I am assuming things have changed now since it's going to be almost a year and 4 months since the incident. At that time there weren't any third party heatsinks since the server was launched brand new. Forget about third party, HP didn't have the heatsinks themselves. That was the annoying bit of the whole process. Thanks for all your input.

I know. It just keeps chugging along. I know it's only been two days for you, but I guarantee you this firmware is rock solid. It just doesn't die. I have really pushed it to the limits in terms of network activity and it just goes, that's all you got for me.

You are more than welcome crazydream. Hope I could be of further help as I progress this blog further.

Imap and here is why. When you read you email over an imap connection its marked read on your Gmail account as well. So for instance if you have 10 emails on your imap mail client, those 10 would be marked read on your Gmail account. Now if you were using pop and checked your email on the client and then checked it on the Gmail account those emails would still be sitting in your inbox as if you haven't read them yet. I am sorry I don't understand your question about downloading all the emails on every connection. Neither imap nor pop does that. They only check for new email for the time intervals that you set.

I haven't bought a new one since the last one. But what I can tell you is that the ones that I ordered still are in great shape even after all this time. My black suit is still black, the color hasn't faded and the suit looks just as new.

Hi Jay. Actually I ended up custom building a FreeNas server instead after I returned this server. Finances sort of played a role in my decision to not pursue the branded path. I have more details regarding the custom server in my post: http://blog.fourfridays.com/2010/02/21/home-media...

As for my recommendations I have had my eyes on the servers out there for quite a bit. I guess the preference depends on the needs. If you need it just for storage, then you are basically not overly concerned about processing, but more on the ability of inserting as many hard drives as possible, and maybe rack mountable (if that is a concern). If its processing and serving up virtual machines, I would recommend (if budget allows), two Quad Core Xeon's with 12GB of Ram minimum.

Hey Alex,

Oh yes, when the server was doing some activity it would go loud. I mean just at times I would turn the server on, and those 120mm fans would blow like a plane taking off. Apart from that if the server isn't doing any CPU intensive tasks (sharing files for instance) it was humming like a bird. But as soon as you hit it with some serious work, wow. I am not sure if there was a way to control the fans, but I am assuming there could be one.

Hi Alberto, and thank you for your comment. Really there is no reason to be uncivil. I understand your point on the CPU kit, since it comes with the heatsink. Lets take the following example. I have two CPU's in my server. By some miracle one of the heatsinks I pulled out to reapply the thermal paste got run over by a car. Now HP is telling me to purchase a kit worth $600 to get only the heatsink I need that would probably be worth $60. Prices are for arguments sake. They won't sell me just the heatsink. That is the point we are trying to make here. So if we don't turn to eBay or other sources it really doesn't make sense to buy a kit with a CPU when I have a perfectly working CPU and am only missing the heatsink.

Hi Mark,

I actually returned my ML350 G6 within 30 days of purchase due to lack of parts availability. But I would love to answer your questions. There are 2 versions of the ML350 G6, there is the SFF (Short Form Factor) and the LFF (Large Form Factor). For your purposes you will need the LFF version of the Server. What the difference between the 2 versions is that the LFF will take up to 6 3.5" SATA or SAS Hard Drives. These are what you may refer to as your normal hard drives, the 1 to 2TB. The SFF will accept up to 8 2.5" Hard Drives. These are the more expensive and lower capacity hard drives.

If you already have the SFF form factor not all is lost. You can insert up to 4 SATA 3.5" HDD below your DVD-Rom. Make sure you get a nice long SATA cable. The distance is considerable from the drive bay to the motherboard. But if you have the LFF form factor and wish to use the cage here is the catch. You have to buy the trays that hard drives go in separately and then you can insert any 3.5" HDD you like in them. They don't have to be from HP. When you buy them from HP they come with the tray. So what I did was used eBay and ordered the trays from this really great parts seller Nautilusnet.com. I also did a quick search on eBay and found the trays you would be needing here http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-3-5-LFF-SAS-FC-Tray-Caddy-...

Please make sure you read through the description before you order. I am not recommending that these are the only sellers you should buy the trays from, just a point in the right direction :)