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Help deciding on a SFF (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Anti-Pathy@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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 :)

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[–] ADB-UK@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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 :-)