Hi everyone
I need help on deciding on a SFF. I mainly will be using it for Plex but also for other purposes like home automation etc.
Currently I’m thinking about a M.2 SSD or PCIe SSD with 2 HDD’s. I also saw that those SFF have often an optical drive, maybe I could replace this with an SSD? Or is that to difficult?
Following are available for me:
- HP 600 G3 SFF
- HP Elitedesk 800 G2 SFF
- HP 280 G2 SFF
- HP 400 G3 SFF
- HP 600 G3 SFF
- HP 600 G2 SFF
- DELL OptiFlex 3040 SFF
Ofc i googled for the specs but sometimes there are contradictory information about a product. So i hope i can consult someone who has more technical expertise :)
I’ve had minor issues swapping cd drives over due to the mounting in a couple of units (HP or IBM IIRC).
The drives came on a slide tray that clipped in rather than have standard mounts or holes. Did not take long to add holes and use a converter tray that fits into a normal 5 1/4 inch drive bays and mounts 3.5" or 2.5" drives.
I did see one Wyse sff machine that had a laptop cd in it - no way could I fit anything in that :-)