GarethC Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 (edited) So I finally pulled the trigger and upgraded one of my Gen8s to the Gen10 Plus. I upgraded the CPU to literally the only 6 core Xeon (E-2246G) I could find for sale (2nd hand off eBay from Germany), still pretty much paying full price for it but there seems to be a significant shortage of these processors at the moment. I also installed the HP TPM 2.0. The HP iLO enablement kit & a HP NC365T (Quad Port Gigabit NIC), I may switch this out at some point for a Smart Array so I can attach the HDDs to it and have my HP LTO-4 attached externally. I then installed my SSDs & HDDs before installing Server 2019. Shortly after that, my Crucial 64GB kit arrived and that went in which truly unlocked the capability of the machine then. Its a real power house now, it runs my file services, two domains, iTunes server, OpenFire and my CCTV with ease (approx. 20% CPU and 22GB RAM used). Edited August 17, 2020 by GarethC Spacing 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trig0r Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Nice, can you get it benched next to the Gen8 so people can see the grunt differences? Then all we need to do is wait for HPE to do some decent cashback deals and we'll see how many people actually buy them, makes me wonder if the original Gen10 might start getting some decent deals now the Gen10+ is out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binky Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 5 hours ago, GarethC said: HP TPM 2.0 I've been looking into the possible TPM options and I'm confused as to which is the correct one for this box, so any chance you could let me know the HP part number so I can order the correct one? Thanks @GarethC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethC Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, binky said: I've been looking into the possible TPM options and I'm confused as to which is the correct one for this box, so any chance you could let me know the HP part number so I can order the correct one? Thanks @GarethC Yes ofcourse, 864279-B21 is the correct one. Not that its difficult, but installation is shown in this document: https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-a00073430en_us starting on page 58. The orientation of the cover doesn't matter (that's what I needed to lookup). Edited August 17, 2020 by GarethC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 I’ve not used a TPM module in my Gen10 Plus in home environment. What benefit does it add? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethC Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 It enables you to use Bitlocker for drive encryption, which is pretty important for me as I do hold a small amount of sensitive data on my server(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclebiba Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 On 8/18/2020 at 8:29 AM, GarethC said: drive encryption Pls do not trust Bitlocker too much. It will protect you from some stupid guy but not (and never did) protect you from your government. MS is actively cooperating with law enforcement and homeland security agencies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethC Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 There is nothing on my server that would be a problem if the government got hold of it I can assure you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 You’ve convinced me to add TPM to my server. Have you enabled Bitlocker yet? Does it work on all drives or only the OS drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethC Posted August 29, 2020 Author Share Posted August 29, 2020 Yes I have, but oddly the server only seems to register the 2 SSDs in HP Storage Administrator for some reason, even though my 2 x 6TB HDDs are usable in the OS. Bitlocker therefore also only seems to be able to be configured on the SSDs also. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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