A full system overview and tear-down of the HP Z840 Workstation. From ideal CPUs, to RAM specifications, PCIe expansion, PSU upgrades and much more!
HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini PC conversion to a low power draw home NAS / Server that can manage everything your home network has on hand! Hardware Fitment – Part 1 of 4!
The Ultimate Guide for QUAD NVMe RAID 0! Which PCIe adapter is best? Here we test the HP Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro, Jeyi Quad Gen 4 NVMe adapter, Gigabyte Aorus Gen 4 AIC Adapter and Asus Hyper M.2 V2 adapter. Which one will handle a 8TB RAID 0 pool best?
A full system overview and tear-down of the HP Z820 Workstation. From ideal CPUs, to RAM specifications, PCIe expansion, PSU upgrades and much more!
HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini PC conversion to a low power draw home NAS / Server that can manage everything your home network has on hand! Hardware Fitment Part 2 of 4!
Guide for the HP Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro fitment into the HP Z840 Workstation – along with 4x 2TB Adata Legend 800 NVMes in RAID 0. The full adapter gets torn down to bare bones for your viewing pleasure!
Quick storage upgrade on the HP Z840 Workstation. 2x 4TB SSDs mounted within a 5.25″ Bay to 4-slot SSD adapter with fan cooling! Throw in a 16TB Ironwolf Pro scratch drive and you have a massive storage upgrade for your workstation.
Ultimate DIY Home Server? HP Z440 Case Swap Guide. DIY conversion of a powerful workstation into a home server that will store over 66TB of data (I have since expanded further!), with a E5-2697A V4 CPU, 64GB of DDR4 ECC Reg RAM, 10GbE Networking while running TrueNAS Core.
Guide for the Asus Hyper M.2 V2 fitment into the HP Z840 Workstation – along with 2x 1TB Samsung 980 NVMes in RAID 0. This adapter’s performance was surprising!
A full Guide on the HP Z440 / Z420 / Z400 Workstations. From ideal CPUs, to RAM specifications, PCIe expansion, PSU upgrades and much more!
Unboxing of what might be the most ideal home NAS / Server case you can buy – Fractal Define 7XL Full tower with Smoked Glass Side Panel. By my count – you can store a cozy 29 drives before resorting to unconventional drive mounting locations. Well worth consideration.
Guide for the Gigabyte Aorus Gen 4 AIC NVMe Adapter fitment into the HP Z840 Workstation – along with 4x 2TB ADATA Legend 800 NVmes in RAID 0. This adapter’s performance was surprising but with a catch!
A full Guide on the HP Z840 / Z820 / Z800 Workstations. From ideal CPUs, to RAM specifications, PCIe expansion, PSU upgrades and much more!
Unboxing of what might be the most affordable home NAS / Server case you can buy – Fractal Define XL R2 Full tower. With 8x removable 3.5″ HDD bays provided, along with 3x 5.25″ Expansion bays – this one is well worth consideration.
NVMes often run hot and they will thermally throttle their performance when the chipset’s temperature exceeds 75° C / 167° F. A quick and cost effective solution is to fit some thermally conductive silicone! Full guide here with the thermal testing to confirm the temp. drop!
A full system overview and tear-down of the HP Z240 Workstation. From ideal CPUs, to RAM specifications, PCIe expansion, PSU upgrades and much more!
A Secret Method for using PCIe slots hidden underneath your GPU! With modern GPUs occupying 3.5 PCIe slot – this little hack will allow you to use more PCIe slots! Part 2 of 2!
A Secret Method for using PCIe slots hidden underneath your GPU! With modern GPUs occupying 3.5 PCIe slot – this little hack will allow you to use more PCIe slots! Part 1 of 2!
Full guide for 10GbE Networking! Get your home server running on 10GbE in a cost-effective manner with the Intel X540-T2 10GbE NIC and a Unify Flex-XG 4-port 10GbE Switch. Part 2 of 2.
Full guide for 10GbE Networking! Get your home server running on 10GbE in a cost-effective manner with the Intel X540-T2 10GbE NIC and a Unify Flex-XG 4-port 10GbE Switch. Part 1 of 2.
The HP Z600 sure packs a punch for the prince point. Get ready for a quick guide on how to take one of these and turn it into a 1080p capable system.
HP Z840 RAM GUIDE – 256GB of DDR4 ECC Reg memory going into the HP Z840!
HP Z840 CPU FITMENT GUIDE – this is how you are meant to fit your new CPUs to your system!
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