Heh. I've still got a gen7 happily chugging away - it is happier streaming 1080p x264 rather than x265, but aside from that we never notice it's so feeble. That

Heh. I've still got a gen7 happily chugging away - it is happier streaming 1080p x264 rather than x265, but aside from that we never notice it's so feeble. That's easy enough - we only rip x264 now. It's heavily used, ZFS performs flawlessly - running on FreeNAS, and runs a surprising amount of plugins and jails without issue. I haven't looked at gen 8 or 10 - where was 9? - since the arbitrary HP switch in policy to say you need an active support contract to download a BIOS update. For most people buying a MicroServer that's BIOS updates in first year only, which is far too hostile. I'm more likely to self-build using a U-NAS 8 bay or something else with more bays next time around, or pick up a rack off ebay.