Most OEMs (Dell, etc.) charge a huge markup on their drives, even with the cost of the trays to use 3rd party drives it's still similar or lower in cost and you get a better warranty.

comes with no drive caddies and you must purchase hp proprietary drives to use it !not a happy camper right now.what the heck was I thinking HP ?

This is a great professional level server for home or a small office. I've bought it for my home, installed windows server 2012 essentials (for a very reasonable price) and got a very useful addition to my home network. I can monitor health of the home...

The ML310e is just another example of HP's commitment to small business by offering a quality entry level server that is designed for ease of setup and hardware durability. The built in auto-configuration of hardware and software was a breeze. This...

This HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 server is a good entry level server for SOHOs and small SMBs.

We have experienced several issues and limitations with these servers.

very easy to setup I run ubuntu on this in a raid 1 configuration could not use HP's controller but ubuntu has its own raid controlling technology built in so there is no problem running raid on it iLO is neat but requires additional licensing if you...