Received the P330 on Saturday, delivered with plenty of cling wrap around it. Thought it would come in a box, but it would have been harder to transport by just one person I guess. I appreciate them for getting identical 2400mhz ram sticks, instead of the 2133mhz one they demo’ed for me.
Sharing some pictures after we did a few things:
- Got rid of the crusty thermal paste and applied some fresh paste.
- Installed an ssd pulled from an old laptop of mine - for testing purposes.
- Installed a new 128gb NVMe SSD - this will serve as the boot drive for Proxmox.
- A quick wipe-down so it looks and smells nice? I realise how weird it sounds as I type this, but I like my devices clean just like everyone else
Some scratches on the cabinet are to be expected I guess..
But the insides seem to be damage-free. Decent cable management too.
The test SSD which will be soon replaced by the mass storage drives:
Next steps:
- There is a second m.2 slot for a wifi+bt card. Might salvage one from my old laptop and install it here, but I need to get those antenna wires for it to actually be usable. Wired it to my router for now.
- This cabinet has space for 1x3.5” HDD. 2 additional drives can be installed using Lenovo’s expansion caddies, but due to lack of availability, I will need to DIY a solution to hold another 3.5” drive.
- Find a good deal on lightly used, server-pulled or refurbished 8TB SATA drives. 6 or 10TB would also do, based on the price I guess. Anyone aware of the market rate for an 8TB used drive, outside TE’s marketplace?