A guy I found on this forum (named
schoondoggy) made and sold his own mounting brackets and other small things for the Gen8:
homeservershow.com/hp-microserver-gen8-drive-bracket.html
I've got 3x Samsung M9T 2TB 9.5mm drives attached to the bracket on mine, and I've got 4x WD Red 6TB drives in the 4 main stock bays in Raidz1, and will have the second set in Raidz1 too - hoping to make those 3x 2TB drives 4x sometime in the future possibly if /when SCHOONDOGGY creates a bracket capable of it (
mentioned here )
3 Samsung M9T 2TB 9.5mm on the bracket:
A couple motherboard shots:
I stuck a Xeon E3-1230 v2 CPU in there and the cooler is one of these:
Akasa AK-CC7118HP01 K25 Low Profile Intel Cooler for LGA 775/1156/1155
I've stuck a small heatsink/fan as you can see (small red fans) on both the iLO chip and replacing the stock fanless heatsink on the northbridge. Wholly uneccessary, but I like to mod stuff and I wanted to do it.
This is the heatsink/fan combo (
Xilence Northbridge/Chipset Heatsink + Fan → Aluminium Cooler Heat sink RAM )
To attach it to the iLO chip (which may not need cooling, but it does I notice now get the heatsink on top of it very warm) I used some semi-permanent
Akasa AK-TT12-80 Thermal Adhesive Tape.
I tried the same on the northbridge, but the chip that sticks up is tiny compared to the area around it and the thermal tape wasn't adhesive enough, so what I did was take some thermal pad stuff and cut it slightly larger than the bottom of the heatsink, just so none of the edges made any contact with the board, then I used a knife and cut out a hole in the middle for the chip to fit into, and then in order to secure it to the chip I used some
Arctic Silver ASTA-7G - Premium Silver Thermal Adhesive.
Once that cured it was secured nicely and peliminary tests so far show the chipset sensor going from 68c under Plex scanning load with the same heastink attached using the thermal tape to around 43-45c
The fan on the IBM M1015 is a
Noctua NF-A4x10 FLX attached using 2x
Akasa AK-MX003 - Siliconized Rubber Fan Pins and the copper ramsinks I stuck on it can be found easily enough.
Before I hook up the 3x M9T 2TB 9.5mm drives to the M1015 I am going to set up a blower fan or two
like this pointing at them, as per the advice of the bracket designer because the drives up there get warm.
I also stuck a ramsink on a chip you can see on the top left of the board in the image, I forgot what it's for exactly now but I saw it recommended elsewhere as a minor thing to do since that also gets warm.
Just for reference too, the RAM in mine is 2x "
Kingston Technology ValueRam DDR3 1600 MHz ECC DIMM"
I run FreeNAS from a fast SanDisk Extreme SD card (I think the SD card slot only goes to USB 2.0 anyway, as well as the internal USB port, but oh well) which works very well, and a windows to go install from the internal USB port.
Hope any of this helped if there's anything else I can help with just let me know.
Here's another angle;
