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by esaym 3898 days ago
The microservers weren't too bad: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-d...

For those of us that just have to have a web server in our bedrooms.

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I'll second that. I used one for about three years with Windows Server 2008, primarily as a NAS and for playing around with Windows domains. Cost me less than £100 (plus HDDs), held five 1.5TB hard drives, ran near silent, and was reliable.

I've also got a HP PSC1215 scanner/printer that is over a decade old and still works fine. I can't really speak to the overall quality of HP gear, but the few pieces of hardware I've used from them have been pretty solid.

Their storage is a good value for the money too. If you want to talk enterprise, the NonStop Integrity platform is as reliable as z/OS. That's real niche though. That's about it though. Their enterprise software is as bad as CA. They aren't really innovating anything interesting.