I started on Elitedesk 800 G1s when Raspberry Pis got hard to find and expensive, and I now feel they are better in every respect if you don’t need the GPIO pins.

Every time I open them up to upgrade something I’m impressed with the level of engineering. There are quality manufacturer manuals for them, the cooling is good and they look great

    • thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I normally only run one unless I’m doing some dev work, but one G2 plus a 4 bay NAS, a switch, a WAP, and a wireless modem and it sits on 30-55W. This is definitely part of the magic - I assume the i7 6700T is a laptop variant? The other two are i5 6500Ts

  • seang96@spgrn.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I had 3 HP Elitedesk 705 g4s and every single 9ne of them after 100 hours would disconnect the SATA disk. Not sure if they newer ones are any better, but I kinda lost trust in HP mini pcs.

  • bloopernova@programming.devEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have something very similar from Lenovo, bought refurbished and it’s a very capable i5 home server. And it’s practically silent.

    • thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I tossed up about the Lenovo’s and probably only went with the HP’s 'cause they were cheaper on ebay that week. I quite like how the Lenovo’s look stood up.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yep! You can run almost anything on them, these are just x86 machines. However there are much smaller ones that aren’t x86 and are actually proprietary ARM-based endpoints, but those are easy to spot usually as they don’t have a lot of IO.

      As for these ones though, people often repurpose them as low-power servers or firewall boxes.

      There’s an entire video series & articles called “Project TinyMiniMicro” where a server/homelab outlet ServeTheHome compares multiple popular models, looking at things like performance, cooling, upgradeability (some of these have half height PCIe slots inside), fan noise, thermal throttling, and a lot more.

      Definitely worth a watch or a read if you’re considering getting one of these, it’s pretty comprehensive.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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        10 months ago

        ive tossed hundreds, but i thunk ive got a box with a few around here somewhere. when i was using them i seeeemed to remember specifically picking the ones with a native windows rdp client, which would indicate x86. (win7 era)

        im just looking to setup little media clients to connect to in-house flatscreens.

      • xor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 months ago

        well you have all 9 running then same thing, but if there’s ever a disagreement, you have them vote…
        that’s why you always need an odd number of them

      • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I have 2 small Dell micros and truenas+qdevice. I have two full replacements of those Dell micros just sitting powered off.

        One proxmox Dell is for production. Reverse proxy+outward facing services. The other Dell is for dev/internal shit that i can break and rollback and not care. One is set to run until the UPS is almost dead, other one shuts down almost immediately.

        It’s just nice to have the options and the power draw is negligent.