My Virtual Baby Gets A Sibling

You may have seen my earlier post about how I'm finally getting around to doing something with my HP Microserver.

Typical!! No sooner do I start working on it than another great deal comes out for the newer Gen 8 model. Priced at £179 with an £80 cashback promo it was to good a deal to miss. So for the princely sum of £99 the virtual baby now looks like this.

I've transplanted the disks and memory from the old model into this one and will be configuring it up as previously described.

So why did I go for this newer model?

• Faster Intel processor rather than AMD
• Built in HP ILO for remote management.
• Faster SATA controller (6Gb rather than 3Gb albeit only on first 2 disks)
• It looks sexier, gotta love that blue led strip at the bottom
• Because I can!!

There are some upgraded features; USB 3 sockets, 2 NICs, easier access to internals but they're less important to me at the moment.

So did I really need to do this? For what I'm going to be using it for, of course not! But for the price how could I say no.