Got one of these bad boys coming (i7 8700). Planning to add 2x3.5in 10tb HDDs and upgrade ram to 64GB. Excited to get to work on it - heard a lot of good things about this rig.

Hopefully someone can answer these for me:

  • On HP’s spec sheet it says the max HDD size is 2TB. Do I need to do anything to the BIOS to allow bigger drives?
  • I’ve heard it’s possible to add a third 3.5in HDD in the DVD drive bay. Can anyone confirm? Do you need a bay adapter or whatever?
  • Planning to run TrueNas in a Proxmox VM to manage the HDDs, either RAID 0 or 1. Do I need a PCIe HBA card?
  • Any other tips or tricks?
  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I opened one that looked exactly the same, can’t recall model.

    Installing a sata ssd was easy for it had vacant sata holes on the board (besides two cloning hdds already there), but HP’s premium secure bios interface was not great to navigate and I wasted some time to make it boot from a new drive. There was a lot of space here and iirc not all slots in a lifting cage holding hdds were filled.