Comments on: HP Proliant ML115 G5 Quad Core – Startup, Boot and Running Noise Levels Video.

By: Doug C

Doug C — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:02:49 +0000

Hi-

We are building a RAID 1 with an ML 110 G3 3.6gHZ Pentium D Box and it is taking forever. I put 2 1TB drives and it is now 2.5 days into the build and it is only at 62%. Is this normal?

Thanks

Doug

By: NickB

NickB — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:12:17 +0000

Hi very interesting comments on the ML110 G5. I am hoping to upgrade mine with a 2TB non hotswappable SATA, non RAID. Have been recommended the Samsung HDSAM 2000 SATA 32. Has anyone tried it? Friend says there are poor review on the 1.5TB drives but I cant find them!

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:50:37 +0000

I just ran up a ML110 G5 server, and once you apply the two correct firmware updates the fan noise goes away completely (aside from the expected 15 seconds during startup/shutdown).

The two updates were:
* Firmware Upgrade for HP ProLiant ML115 G5\ML150 G5\ML110 G5\DL180 G5\DL120 G5 Lights-Out 100 Remote Management (For USB Key-Media) v3.11 (A)
29 Jun 2009
* Systems ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade for HP ProLiant ML110 G5 Servers (For USB Key-Media) v2009.10.09 (A) 26 Oct 2009

Also – the server does work with 1.5TB hard drives, but in RAID modes it cannot address more than 1TB per drive (meaning for 2x 1.5TB drives you get 1TB in RAID-1 or 2TB in RAID-0).

By: Taff

Taff — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:19:39 +0000

Excellent idea to include the video.
My similar ML115 G5 Quad doesn’t quieten like this. It only moderates a little.
Is anything configurable? I can’t find anything in the BIOS.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:57:05 +0000

Well obviously i wouldn’t say its as good as a P600 controller but its perfect for what we are using it for. Sustained network transfers of large files run at pretty much line speed (100mbit/s) and i had a disk to disk transfer in the server run at about 240MByte/s.
A transfer of lots of small files seemed to slow it down a bit but that could well have been the wireless connection the user was on – not investigated too much as thats only ever done once in a while.

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:36:04 +0000

I chickened out in the end ! Too many reports of the 1.5TB not working brilliantly just yet. Now running the 250GB as the system drive with 2.72TB via the onboard nvidia raid5, working very nicely.

Hi Rick,

How are you finding the performance using the onboard disk controller? I find it fine but someone on the site recently was commenting that they were getting slow performance.

Cheers,