Glad it was helpful! I have at least two more Lenovo S30 builds planned. My plan is to make each oen a little different, but at this point I have not decided on the upgrades.
Great video 👍🏾. I'm 64 and just wanted something bullet proof and cheap to store family stuff. I bought an HP Z440 with a E5 1650 V3 32g ddr4 and a Quadro k2200. I added an HP Turbo pci-e nvme adaptor and nvme for $58 Australian. The PC cost me $230 on eBay Australia.
The HP Z440 is a solid system, as you have noted, and is more than capable of fulfilling the purpose you have in mind. How do you plan to backup files to your Z440?
I did something similar but with a Dell 5810 Precision dropping a e5-2683v3 in it and 96gb ram, plus a pcie-m2 carrier card with a 2Tb Kioxia SSD. It started with the same spec as this one. It has a 1Tb HDD in it but disconnected right now, it will be getting an 18Tb or so soon, all my networked machines will be having a disk like that and a copy of the working fileset of all of them. So the Dell will have a backup of itself and a local copy of every other machine on the network, so I could loose every machine except one, and still have all my important data intact. The GPU in the Dell is a P4000 so nothing spectacular but more than enough to get the job done for basic AI or even games if need be. It's running server 2023 so not exactly a gaming machine right now. Total cost for the thing including GPU etc except backup drive was $500 about. Maybe a tad more, don't recall all the prices off the top of my head, but yeah - 14 cores, 96Gb RAM, 2Tb SSD, P4000/8Gb GPU. Not very 'quick' in UI but it will handle a lot of stuff going on without slowing down. I don't sit using it locally so it's fine.
Good explanation thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I have at least two more Lenovo S30 builds planned. My plan is to make each oen a little different, but at this point I have not decided on the upgrades.
@@jamesturnertech I will be waiting for those
Great video 👍🏾. I'm 64 and just wanted something bullet proof and cheap to store family stuff. I bought an HP Z440 with a E5 1650 V3 32g ddr4 and a Quadro k2200. I added an HP Turbo pci-e nvme adaptor and nvme for $58 Australian. The PC cost me $230 on eBay Australia.
The HP Z440 is a solid system, as you have noted, and is more than capable of fulfilling the purpose you have in mind. How do you plan to backup files to your Z440?
I did something similar but with a Dell 5810 Precision dropping a e5-2683v3 in it and 96gb ram, plus a pcie-m2 carrier card with a 2Tb Kioxia SSD. It started with the same spec as this one. It has a 1Tb HDD in it but disconnected right now, it will be getting an 18Tb or so soon, all my networked machines will be having a disk like that and a copy of the working fileset of all of them. So the Dell will have a backup of itself and a local copy of every other machine on the network, so I could loose every machine except one, and still have all my important data intact.
The GPU in the Dell is a P4000 so nothing spectacular but more than enough to get the job done for basic AI or even games if need be. It's running server 2023 so not exactly a gaming machine right now.
Total cost for the thing including GPU etc except backup drive was $500 about. Maybe a tad more, don't recall all the prices off the top of my head, but yeah - 14 cores, 96Gb RAM, 2Tb SSD, P4000/8Gb GPU. Not very 'quick' in UI but it will handle a lot of stuff going on without slowing down. I don't sit using it locally so it's fine.
You got a lot of bang for your buck with that build. Feel free to drop by again if you make future upgrades.