[Official] HP 290-p0043w Owner's Thread

Just one single sas cable run to an external enclosure with 4 SATA drives.

More asking did you make sure it’s the right cable? Replace the cable?

What resolution are the cameras?

2304x1296

Could I get a link to the 9201-8e card or an equivalent that’s confirmed to work with this hp? I can only find the 9201-8i variants.

Just confirming all of these should (Assuming all goes well) work. The 9200 I have was an hp model so I may grab one of the other 8e and try them.

I can tell you from personal experience an LSI 9207-8E does for sure work in this little box. I have one connected to a silverstone ds380 with 8x 8TB drives and it works perfectly fine.

Thanks, I’ll give it a shot. I just tested my 9200 in 2 other computers it was definitely defective as far as I can tell

Wanna reuse your WIndows 10 key from your Ubuntu Plex box but don’t want to have to reboot back into BIOS to find it? There’s a Linux command line utility for that!! Linux find Windows 10 OEM product key command - nixCraft

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New to the site but built a NAS/Plex server for the home thanks to the guides around here.

I want to throw a pfsense dedicated box at the beginning of my network just for peace of mind. Besides my PC I just have a BI box and the NAS/Plex. Is the 290 still the way to go if I can snag it for a decent price? Space isn’t a huge issue but I’d prefer to keep it smaller. I don’t access the Plex outside of my home but I wanted to add a VPN to remote in whenever needed (also want to open up BI to remote access). I see prices have crept up and are now closer to $200 so I wanted to double check before buying one of these.

Has anyone ever found a seller of the 290 that will ship internationally? Or does anyone know of any alternatives available within the EU? I might have to go the Otis route but even then, our hardware costs are no where near as cheap as the US :frowning: I’d pay gold for someone in the US to buy & ship me one over :smiley:

On mounting the drive, I recommend mounting by UUID: How To Use UUID To Mount Partitions / Volumes Under Ubuntu Linux - nixCraft

You probably need to set permissions for the “media” drive to something that all users can read in some way. This can be done by chmod o+rw -R /path/to/mount
The “o” = all users.

You could also create a unique group and give both the plex service user (generally called “plex”) and the qtorrent service user (check it with ps -aux | grep qtorrent) and chown -R user:FANCY /path/to/mount and then make sure that your group can read/write with another chmod -R g+rw /path/to/location.

Reference: https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/tools/modify-file-permissions-with-chmod/

Depending on how fancy you want to get and if you have systemd controlling everything you can edit the users to make everything run as the same service user and group and then everything will just default work as the users are all the same and the files/folders are all owned by the same (this is my solution). I just created a new user called “media” did a few systemctl edit plexmediaserver.service and setup my override.conf and then did that to sonarr/radarr too and everything is owned by media and run by media.

Anyone have PCI-E NIC compatibility issues? I got a Broadcom 5720 that works fine in my main machine that has an MSI mobo, but this little guy just doesn’t want to boot with it plugged in. Every time it starts with 3 long 2 short beeps. HP website said this is a memory issue but when I unplug the card everything boots normally. The pcie slots should be fine as I also put a pcie to m.2 WiFi adapter in it.

Any ideas on how to fix it?

SMBus taping, check here for some info.

Long time lurker - picked up one of these and just getting it set up now. Put in 16GB RAM and a 500GB nvme.

Quick question - do you guys keep a windows 10 install on a separate partition when installing Ubuntu, or do you just go full Ubuntu? How do you accomplish bios updates if you don’t keep a W10 partition?

Full Ubuntu. Personally, I never even updated the BIOS when I got mine. The latest release doesn’t fix any major issues. And BIOS updates are so rare that I wouldn’t worry about keeping a dedicated partition for them. Just throw a fresh Win10 install and the HP tool on a small SSD if you ever do need to update again. Shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes

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Good call, thanks

Initially installed 19.04 per the recommendation in this thread from quite awhile ago. Had all sorts of issues due to EOL repos when trying to apt install packages. Did some reading and realized I should probably be on 19.10 - reinstalling now. Is 19 still the recommended build for QS compatibility?

edit: only Linux experience is with Raspbian so a bit of a learning curve with Ubuntu

The guide now recommends 20.04, I’d use that. It’s the latest LTS.

HP 290 - $169.99 in checkout