If you slide the board out (to do this you will need to disconnect the Mini SAS cable for which you will need a jewellers screw driver as it is very stubborn) you will see it comes with.
Four PCIe slots a x1, x4 and x16 unfortunately the x1 and x4 are right next to each other. This allows you to use HPs KVM hardware but means in reality we are limited to x16 and a x1 slot

As I have been a good little boy Santa bought me just what I wanted


Mmmmmm BlackGold 3650 quad DVB-t2 card so now I record 4 HD streams of HD rubbish!
Some users have stated the fan is too loud (I think they are using it as a HTPC) but if you find the same then with the help of this guide the fan can be swapped!
HP Proliant MicroServer | silentpcreview.comIT HAS A NON STANDARS PIN LAYOUT
These are the drives which are going into the machine for now as HDD prices are just silly

We have a 2TB Hitachi 1TB Samsung and 250GB drive which came with the microserver all of these will be for data and the OS will be dumped on some generic 2.5” drive I have somewhere
I will be using a copy of WHS 2011 as it is just so cheap but also integrates very well as I have a almost completely windows centric network. It will back up my local PCs and even allow remote web access of my files.
In fact I still have not bought my copy of this yet as I just installed a copy from usenet and keep resetting the trial period like you can in W7 so I have 120 of use before I have to buy a copy.
WHS Install GuideYou can find an install guide here
http://www.informationweek.com/byte/...p-os/231000924And a video on how to setup user access to you server here
Windows Home Server 2011 - First Time Setup of the Connector, Launchpad and Backup - YouTubeNext up are some of my favourite programs I have ever usedUsing the programs below you will be able to autonomously download music, movies and TV series. The content will then be unpacked mete data added and place into the predefined folders of your choice
You will need a UseNet provider which can be had for less than a tenner a month for unlimited downloads a good guide to UseNet can be found here
All information about binary newsgroups and usenet | Binaries4all Usenet Tutorials•
SABnzbd+ SABnzbd.org : Home of SABnzbd+, the Full-Auto Newsreadera Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python.
It's totally free, incredibly easy to use, and works practically everywhere.
SABnzbd makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating everything we can. All you have to do is add an .nzb. SABnzbd takes over from there, where it will be automatically downloaded, verified, repaired, extracted and filed away with zero human interaction.
(UseNet is a bit like torrent but it will max your internet connection and you don’t have to seed)
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SickBeard Sick Beard - Internet PVR for your TV ShowsThe ultimate PVR application that downloads and manages your TV shows
Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them. It currently supports NZBs.org, NZBMatrix, NZBs'R'Us, Newzbin, Womble's Index, NZB.su, TVTorrents and EZRSS and retrieves show information from theTVDB.com and TVRage.com.
Here is a good guide for SickBeard with explination of how to setup post processing
How-To Turn Your Computer into a Supercharged TiVo with Sick Beard - How-To Geek•
CouchPotatoApp CouchPotatoApp.comCouchPotato is an automatic NZB and torrent downloader. You can keep a "movies I want"-list and it will search for NZBs/torrents of these movies every X hours. Once a movie is found, it will send it to SABnzbd or download the .nzb or .torrent to a specified directory.
Setting up CouchPotato can be quite daunting but there is a good guide found here
Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint! : Ainer.org — Counter-technology Guides, Information, & News! Featuring Linux Mint & Ubuntu, SABnzbd+ & Sick Beard, Couch Potato & Headphones, XBMC & more!It is written on a Linux machine so the install is different but the configuration is very helpful
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Headphones https://github.com/rembo10/headphones/wikiHeadphones is a SABnzbd add-on that automates your music downloading. It's written in Python so it works on pretty much all systems, and it's easy to setup and configure.
You can import all your favourite artists from iTunes, and keep an eye out for any new albums they might be releasing.
It can be configured to work with a few search providers, including NZBMatrix, NZBs.org and Newznab servers. Just enter your account details and you're ready to go.
Headphones requires Python to be installed to work you will be wanting the Python 2.7.2 Windows Installer which can be found here
Download PythonAccessing your programs WebUI over a networkAll of the above programs can be administered over you local network via a web browser.
I won’t go into specifics as the wiki pages of each are very helpfull but there are a couple of things to remember
• Each program will be assigned a port for access usually 8080 or 8081 each program needs a unique port. If you try to start a program on a port which is already in use it will not start. Please read the relent wiki for help with this
• Each program needs to be allowed through the firewall on the local machine (your server)
Use this guide if you don’t know how to allow a program through the firewall
Windows Firewall - Add or Remove an Exception - Windows 7 ForumsHow to get you programs to auto start at boot upNow your biggest problem with WHS is the fact that it is headless so when you switch on the server no users get logged in. This means that any programs set to start automatically will not start up.
But there is an easy way to get around this
1. Remote Desktop into your server
• On a client PC Click start and type “remote desktop connection” click enter
• Enter the server name or IP address
• Enter Administrator as the user
• And the password for the servers administrator account (You entered this when you installed WHS)
2. Install the programs you require on the server
3. Click start Administrative Tools Task Scheduler
You will be greeted with this screen

4. Click “Create New Task” the following pics will show you how to set SABnzbd+ to auto start but it can be applied to any of the programs




