Home Server Upgrade with HP EliteDesk 800 SFF! 

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Very good Video and explanation! Thanks a lot for the effort!

It's actually pretty great what you get for the money with these. The very similar mini version of these (but without the expansion possibilities) are much more popular and cost pretty much the same or even more (!). I have found these with NVME drives already in them for pretty much the same as the minipc's with SATA SSD's or HD's... Next one I add to my homelab might be this!

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Sweet. Love it.

I just got one of these myself a few days ago, just like what you have here except it's a i5-8500 cpu. I plan to use it for Blue Iris and Homeseer, and maybe even as my plex server.

I recently got a G3 mini to run my docker lab and replace my dead NAS. 32Gb ram and i5-6500T are totally awesome for my needs. I will probably get another one for backups (currently using a macmini 2014 for those). I love how small and silent they are. I wish I could get a G4 for the extra nvme slot, but they are 100 bucks more expensive. And I kinda miss the 3.5" bays, but TBH SSDs are getting cheap, and it's probably time for me to manage my data hoarding issues

Congrats on the 💯 video🙌. Nice pick up, I have something similar (Dell Precision T3600 Workstation) I would recommend getting a HBA card for storage expansion and the SFF can get quite warm inside, if you do decide to get a HBA card make sure it is in i.t mode👍. Keep up the awesome content dude.

If you have not found out yet. The covered slot on the front is for the optional SD card reader. If you dont need the DVD drive. The OS drive in a DVD adapter caddie, is the perfect place for the OS. Which leaves the two HDD, SSD and NVME slots available.

Loving your channel.. youll be getting used to me commenting now on your videos

Just got one of these for SGD 130, i7 7700. Sweet deal. Will be building homeserver, cctv-ftp, and local minecraft server for my kids.

Pairing with new Zotax RTX 3050 LP (Low Profile) is super good budget gaming A few days ago , I just purchased the same PC with an i7 8700 and 16GB of RAM for approximately $135, and a new Zotac RTX 3050 LP for around $150.

I bought one of these with an i5-6500 a couple of months ago to use as a dedicated Plex server. It lives under the TV in the living room and unless you get up right next to it, it's completely silent. I chose this over the mini because it could take the 8 TB media drive out of the older server. Since it's under the TV, I'm probably going to set it up for some retro gaming too.

I love my G3 SFF….. Perfect for home office.

You have beautiful hands. Well done on the video.

I did something similar, got an EliteDesk and running Unraid on it largely for home theatre setup (Emby) they go pretty hard and its fun to mess around on

Just bought the G3 Mini 32GB Ram 1TB SSD hoped it would be fine for serverhosting (gameservers) Since i'm tired of paying monthly for a VM or dedicated root. Glad to hear it fits my needs and i can't wait for it to arrive. :) Good video

Es bueno saber que no soy el único que lo uso con docker y Plex 😅

Getting one with an i3 8100 today for the dual nvme slots for 100 bucks today :)

Great vid! Question for you as I have been toying with this idea for well over a year now. Any recommendations for any other SFF (Small Form Factor) OEM Prebuilt PCs other than the HP ProDesk and EliteDesk series? I have heard good things about Fujitsu and Leonovo Thinkcentres, but I am not sure if they can at least get two 3.5" HDDs into them like these systems can. I completely agree with you that these systems are likely the best when you consider 2 nvme m.2 slots, the PCIE slot availability, and that you could technically get three 3.5" HDDs into this thing if you ditch the optical (maybe even more if you 3D print an even more optimal drive-rack for 3.5" drives). Looking forward to your reply boss!

hello fellow kiwi doing homelab lol, thanks for the trade me link

Have you ever use a killawatt to find out how much power it's using. I'm looking for the same exact thing.

The 7th gen HP EliteDesk 800 SFF(including vPRO) used as a home server is not too bad, except you purchased Micron BX500 2.5 inch SSD, I know this model of SSD has some issue during a periods of use.

I loved the review, but maybe could it be possible to do some outdoor tests?

I got that machine with i3 8100, 16gb ram and 256gb nvme for 99€ :) and added a 1TB NVME, M.2 WLAN/bluetooth card and a RTX A2000 6gb i got for 200€.

Looked like one pci-e slot free for the card for bit speedier lan?

I've got 2 spare 3.5 inch drives, and very limited physical space so these old PCs would get me thrown out of my apartment. Would you go zimaboard and Sata to 3.5 inch drives (found a 3d printed rack for the two drives). I want to learn from building a NAS for those two drives, and I want to run home assistant, as well as test out something like nextcloud

I'm thinking of getting the same model but with the i5-7500. How many internal hard drives can you attach? So there's 1 slot for NVMe, and does it have 4 SATA ports? Thanks

Sorry, how many HDD 3.5" can you put inside the case?? 2 in the superior bay ?? maybe 3 ??

Do you think you can fit 2 x 3.5 inch HDD's in that top tray?

Do you know if it possible to install 2 3,5 inch HDD on this board?

That’s a sd card slot blank on the front.

how much is the power consumption?

what can be on a home server?

Have you measured how much electricity it consumes? It would be interesting to know how much it consumes in idle.

Huge drawback with these is the proprietary PSU though.

it can take i5 9500

Although I like your video and believe that you've done a really good coverage, I think you've spent too much to get a pc like this. For this price you could have built a pc from scratch with better specs.