Hey everyone and welcome back to the Sawickipedia. Today we're looking at the HP
ProDesk 600 G1. Now this is a small form-factor PC and we're gonna try
and cram as much stuff as we can in here, so we've got an SSD and three hard
drives, plus also a gtx 1050 video card that's a low-profile one obviously the
actual case itself will only fit low profile cards. Now these are fairly
commonly available, usually they're used in government departments and places
like that so they tend to auction them off every few years and you can usually
pick them up fairly cheaply from a computer auction or eBay. There is a
similar option in this category which is the Dell Optiplex 9010 or 9020, they're
also very similar in size but in a minute we'll have a look at why I actually went
for the HP and not the Dell. So first of all we'll pop the cover off, these things
are pretty straightforward they have a nice little handle here which you just
lift up, cover comes straight off. Now inside there's a nice little caddy at
the front which holds the DVD drive or optical drive, and there's room for at
least two 3 1/2 inch hard drives and there's also space for a
2 1/2 inch SSD. Now given that we're gonna try and squeeze three hard drives
in here plus the SSD we're gonna have to do a bit of modification to the case. The
reason I went with this over the Dell was the motherboard actually has four
SATA ports on the HP the Dell only has three and I'm gonna be using this for a
media storage or media server generally, but I'm also gonna use it for the video
editing hence the video card. Now the power supply is rated at
240 watts so we'll definitely be pushing the limits of that power supply, it's got
an Intel i5 4670 CPU which I think I rated at a maximum of 84 watts, the video
cards 75 watts, and these guys average probably all up they'd average about nine
watts each, and then you've got the motherboard, so we're definitely looking
at very close to 200 watts probably a little bit over that,
so hopefully the power supply can cope with that. This power supply doesn't have
your standard plugs that you'd find on a regular ATX or mini ATX power supply, so
there's not really much option of upgrading these without upgrading the
motherboard and then it's sort of a bit of a waste of time, so hopefully we can
get away with using this 240 watt power supply but I guess that's something
we're going to find out. Now the first thing I'm going to do, obviously I'm not
going to be using the optical drive in this case because that's taking up a
SATA port, but it is pretty simple to remove they have these nice little green
tabs everywhere that give you an idea of what needs to be done if you
want to take something out, so pushing in that tab will allow that to slot
straight out, and there's also little tabs at the front of the case, lifting
those up will allow us to take the front of the case off, and finally this part
isn't really designed to come out but you can sort of just bend it around the
case a little bit, and here's our drive tray. So up the top you can see I've
marked out what I'm planning to do, so we're gonna have a hard drive here
there's gonna be the SSD sitting under here, another hard drive back here, and
then up the top where our optical drive is I'm gonna have to do a bit of case
modification just to sort of flatten this area out
and then we're gonna have hopefully one of our hard drive sitting on the top
here and another one sitting up the top here which will leave just enough room
for the power supply cable and the SATA cable. So I'm gonna get cutting away at
this, hopefully I'll be able to get away with mostly using just tin snips
but if you do have like a little dremel with a metal cutting bit you could also
do that if this is the path that you wanted to go down, so I'll get that done
and we'll come back and take another look. Okay so the case modification is
complete, as you can see I've cut out most of the bits that we're sticking up
and also bits around the side that we're sticking out, so we've left ourselves
some beautifully sharp edges perfect for opening up a finger, but I've put a bunch
of electrical tape around the bottom here just to make sure that when we do
have the hard drive in it's not gonna short to any of the bottom of the case
here because it's not going to be mounted in the same way that for
instance the one on this side will be where it's got a slight gap underneath
the hard drive, but all in all it was fairly easy just chopped a bunch of shit out and we
are ready to go. Now the other thing I forgot to mention before I was also
considering (goes this way) I was also considering trying to mount
the hard drive in this area under here basically by bending this part out and
that way I could have kept the DVD drive just there so it looks normal from the
front, but the problem is down here, hopefully you can see through this
little vent, I might just lift it up, down here where
these connectors are that would have actually gotten in the way if I had a
bent that out, so unfortunately that wasn't going to work so Plan B was to
yeah cut this area out, so we'll stick it all together and see if it works.
One other thing to mention - I do have this is the latest addition to this
computer, so it's a Western Digital white label 10 terabyte drive, it does have
the I think it's the 3.3 volt pin which needs to be disabled, these things come
out of an external hard drive and a lot of people will say you know just put a
bit of tape over that particular pin, what I found was easier was just very
carefully bending that one pin up and back over, so it is still there, obviously
as soon as you take these things out of their external case your warranty is
pretty much void anyway so always make sure to test these before you go
cracking open the case, but yeah putting tape over that pin this doesn't always
work because as soon as you push that connector on there's a chance that it's
gonna push that tape off the pin and therefore I think bending it flat back
against there it's gonna be a lot better solution you're guaranteed not to have any
issues. So yeah like I said we'll put this back together,
we'll also stick the video card in, and see if it can handle it. Alright so if
you go cards in, just stick the front of the case back on.
Now obviously there's gonna be a gap here where the DVD drive was, I'm pretty
sure you can get blanking panels but I'm not that worried about it to be honest,
it'll provide a bit airflow for this hard drive here so it should be
fine. Last thing to do is throw the lid back on.
All right so that's it, here we
have a $200 PC with a decent CPU - an i5 4570 we've got a GTX 1080 graphics card
which will handle video processing, and also run games at a pretty decent
framerate as well if you're into that kind of thing, and we've also got a whole
lot of storage so we've got three hard drives plus the SSD which will have the
operating system obviously, and all up the video card was about $100, this thing
as I said was about $200, and the storage I had lying around but let's say there's
about about $400 worth of storage in there, but the good thing is especially
with that Western Digital 10 terabyte drive, they come up on Amazon on every
so often and for about $250 Australian I think, which is about what I paid for it.
So yeah a very cheap PC build that is very capable and it's gonna serve up
obviously all of our media, but I'm also gonna use it for video editing. So I'm
gonna plug this back in and we'll obviously edit this very video on this
box. So yeah if you've enjoyed this video please hit the like button, you can
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Now who's hungry?
This power supply doesn't have standard... Ahh f**k, what am I saying?