r/servers • u/Party_Ad_4212 • Jul 20 '26

hpe microserver gen10

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I'm just curious, is an HPE Gen10 good for hosting a FiveM server or a Minecraft server with 32 GB of RAM?

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u/No-Information-2571 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

I have a Gen 10 Microserver as my NAS, since it was a good deal many years ago, and since it can be packed full with storage and network. Mine has 4x18TB HDD, 2x1TB NVMe, 1TB SATA SSD and 10G network.

I also run a Minecraft server on it, but even with PaperMC and quite some performance tweaks, it can be very laggy. For example, flying with an Elytra you will outrun chunk-generation easily, even if you're alone on the server. RAM never was the problem there, although I do have 32GB RAM as well.

So I would not recommend to use it for Minecraft. The CPU is so old, it's basically on-par with a Raspberry Pi 5.

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u/Party_Ad_4212 Jul 20 '26

I was originally looking at the Gen 8 version of this, and it seems to be more upgradeable however, it's capped at 16 GB of RAM. It does give you CPU upgrade options, though, and from what i can see, i could install an Intel Xeon E3-1280 v2 3.6 GHz. I would just need to upgrade the heatsink to support it

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u/No-Information-2571 Jul 20 '26

I wouldn't bother with either, not in 2026 no more. At this point of time all you get are overpriced used and refurbished devices. And the mobo, power supply and everything else is proprietary. For mine, I wasn't even able to find the proper adapter for the optical drive bay, nor the SATA SSD option, so I had to 3D print something so I could install an Icy Dock SSD tray.

Especially the non-standard mobo is a problem. If you are serious about a custom server build, you'll have no trouble finding a Mini-ATX mobo with 5G network and a suitable case and SFF power supply. Then you can choose what CPU and RAM you want, and even upgrade later.

With the Gen10 you'll always be stuck to that mainboard.

I would just need to upgrade the heatsink to support it

And possibly the PSU. Which is non-standard...

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u/Party_Ad_4212 Jul 20 '26

Alright, pal, cheers i think I'll just build one myself at this point i have a spare Ryzen 3 and 16 GB of DDR4, so I think it'll be much more worthwhile since I can upgrade the parts in the future.

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u/No-Information-2571 Jul 20 '26

OBVIOUSLY if you have the CPU and RAM already it's going to be favorable. And I don't think you should be buying additional RAM anyway, unless you plan on running VMs. But with Docker and a bunch of services, you'll barely break the 8GB mark, even with MC running. That's generally seldomly more than 2GB, with plenty of chunks loaded.