I bought two Kingston KTH-PL316E/8G 8 GiB DIMMs and they are working.

Did you buy a HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8?

If so, I think thy are quite fussy about the type of memory installed.
See the 'RAM' section in the link below for more information that would be useful :-

http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5639-proliant-microserver-gen8-links/

You'd probably be OK with 4GB, but given the price of RAM these days I'd install at least 8GB.

How much RAM should I install? Basically it will be a web server and a local file server and the gateway (taking the place of a router) and have it do firewall and intrusion detection and prevention and also an SMTP server if necessary for notification of RAID HDD failure. It will be serving 1-4 PCs. Thanks.

dmb wrote:

I have ordered an HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8. Should I use its RAID or software RAID?

You should use software RAID (mdadm). I think the RAID function on your Microserver is what they call fakeraid. You can use this fakeraid with Windows.

I have ordered an HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8. Should I use its RAID or software RAID?

Whirlpool forums here in Australia have quite a lot of information re. HP's Microserver

e.g.
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2447178
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2341709

from memory two things at least, maybe more... not sure of the models involved...

Excessive fan noise
No AHCI on the SATA connection for the DVD if you wish to use that for a disk drive
instead.

There are modded BIOS (links given) and fixes for these problems I believe.

I can't find any references, and it would be G8 anyway, so I am probably wrong.

Hmm. I thought there was an issue with the v9 MicroServers but I'm not sure?

I hear a lot of people using the HP Proliant MicroServers for home but I don't know if anyone tried to use it with ClearOS.