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HP 800 G2s - The Pi killers (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world to c/minipcs@lemmy.world
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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

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[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 23 points 10 months ago

How's the power usage?

[-] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 0 points 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

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago

We used these machines in production for years, some still out there. Great hardware.

[-] bloopernova@programming.dev 2 points 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.world 2 points 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.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 10 months ago

o0o0o i used to use a lot of these little things... rdp endpoints... can they be flashed with linux?

[-] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 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 0 points 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.

[-] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 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.

[-] CurbsTickle@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I've got a full stack of tiny/mini/micros running everything I have at home. I think I'm up to 9 now.

Great machines!

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

I don't understand the need for multiple PCs. Why not run everything from one or two?

[-] xor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 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.works 1 points 3 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.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 months ago

I'm also very curious about this!

[-] CurbsTickle@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Replied to the other person here:

https://lemmy.world/comment/6433242

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