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I got one of the Elitedesk mini PCs with a Ryzen 2400ge in it but was never able to get the bios to save any of my settings so I couldn't disable secure boot. So it's going to get turned into a chock block for my snow blower.
Can you please at least wipe the shelf it’s on? All you need is 1 Lysol wipe, maybe 2.
Honestly that's the way to go if on a budget instead of buying a bunch of rack mount stuff. Do you have an estimate on total price paid for all that?
The minis can be had for 50-100 on eBay depending on model and specs. The larger desk tops are also probably in that range as well. I use the Lenovo m715q (also a mini 1L chassis) that I got for $85 with Ryzen 3, 256gm NVME, and 16gb RAM.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I got a desktop off eBay for $42, which had an i5-6500 and 8gb ddr4 RAM, no ssd or hdd.
Looks like some very capable machines.
Honestly, these little things are great!
FYI - you can get 2.5GbE cards that slot into the WiFi slot on the motherboard and pig-tail a line out one of the antenna ports.
I use the 1 GbE ethernet card in wifi slot with the elitedesk, then replace the vga removable port with 3d printed module in thingiverse to fit the ethernet port output. Quite a saver than having to find mini pc that support 2 GbE ethernet and a good processor which is more expensive (not to mention unknown bios support).
Yes! Or get creative with a dremel and pliers... Sometimes it's worth sacraficing the odd VGA port (or equiv) along the way.
/u/Fruguy01, please chare your stack with /r/minilab too!
From top to bottom
HP Elitedesk 800 G5 - Core i7-9700T 8 core, 16GB RAM, dual 256 GB nvme ssds
2x HP Elitedesk 800 G4 - Core i5-8500T, 16GB RAM, 256GB nvme SSD and 960GB Enterprise Sata 2.5" ssd
Dell Optiplex 5050 - Core i5- 7something, 32GB RAM, 256GB Sata m.2, 4TB WD Blue - This is my plex server atm.
HP Prodesk 600 G4 - Core i5-8500, 32GB RAM, 512GB m.2 NVMe - Just a testing machine atm, may be added to Proxmox cluster.
The HP mini pcs are my new Proxmox cluster. I'm setting up a few Windows Server VMs to learn some stuff for work. Other ideas are in the pipe, but I want to figure out some stuff in the Windows Server world first.
Gotta be honest the 2 bottom ones need to go, for neatness, power use, etc - I just see no point in anything bigger than a 1L now unless it's a total beast.
You can stack the 1L from Dell / Lenovo and HP all quite nicely.
I have exact same setup. Was just wondering if I should put them in a rack. haha
takes 11 min to write comments? :D /s
Very cool. Small but very mighty.
Very nice!
This title feels designed to find the homelab Dads of young girls.
My little homelab, my little homelab, ahhhh ahhhh ahhhh ahhh!
Top three computers pulling 12 watts total lol
Nice setup
How hard is it to add ram to those elitedesk's? I have a G4, but the bigger case. it had 4 ram slots, so it was easy to add to.
Looking at a few of those on ebay, I don't see a ram slot. is it just hidden under the fans?
Perhaps stack them vertically so they don’t heat load each other ?
What are you running on these?
What's the power consumption like on the mini PCs? They seem pretty efficient compared to the big ones
Im so glad to see someone who didn’t spend 5k on a home set up to run plex and record from 30 cameras in their townhome.