I’m considering setting up a home lab and truly self-hosting my own services. Unfortunately, my budget is limited to around $100-$150. I’m wondering if the HP Elitedesk mini PC is suitable for this purpose. I’m particularly looking at the HP Elitedesk 800 G3 or G5 models. Unfortunately, finding these devices in Dhaka has been challenging. So far, I’ve found a G3 on bikroy.com, but it comes with a 6th gen i7 CPU.
Edit: I ended up getting Elitedesk 800 G5 with i7 9th Gen CPU, 32 GB (Kingston) and 1 TB Nvme (a Chinese brand called Kingspec). I’ll get a new ssd later. The price was 35k BDT ($300 approx). The bios was locked. But I managed to unlock it by booting without cmos.
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Is it the Mini variant? I have the G4 Mini with an i7-8700T. Great little machine.
A word of advice: If yours is the G4 Mini, and you run it headless (no monitor), you’ll likely run into random crashing/freezing. I’m assuming you’ll be running Linux, so if that’s the case, it’s really easy to fix by appending an extra command at the end of a line in
/etc/default/grub.