Taking a look inside a HP T620 Plus thin client machine for network appliance/router/firewall build
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2018
- In this video, I take a look inside the HP T620 Plus thin client machine. This little box is great for building a network appliance, router, and/or firewall. It's got a lot of expand-ability options internally: 2x USB-A slots, 1x mSATA slot, 1x M.2 slot, 1x min-PCI slot, and 1x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x16 physical connector).
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There is a fiber 100mb card mounted in that spot on Hp t620 plus K1L95UA#ABA with a ribbon cable and fiber to the rear panel which allows fiber connect right between the mouse/keyboard and the mic/speaker plugs. This means there is no room for the extra DE-9 connector port on the back though it is simply omitted.
do you mean there are variants of this machine where the DE-9 is replaced by a fiber connector?
There is a two DE-9 connectors on yours, the second one is ommited on the K1L95UA#ABA. Look right above your thumb in the video at 8:14 there is a square shaped cutout ajoining the DE-9 port and that would be where the fiber port would be located. The DE-9 is conncted to the board on yours by a ribbon cable. Fiber connector is a addon like this image found on duck duck go search for "hp t620 plus fiber" ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1352zMVXXXXb0XXXXq6xXFXXXx/699280-001-for-font-b-HP-b-font-T610-T620-SC-Fiber-Netwrk-Interface-Card-font.jpg
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Great video .... two questions a) is the PCI risercard included default ? b) which netword have ypu installed ?
a) yes, the riser is always included unless someone threw it away. b) not exactly sure what you mean, but if you are asking what network PCIe cards I have used, I usually recommend Intel quad port i340-T4.
Any chance it could be transplanted into an itx case? Eg standard standoff layout? Or could I cut a hole and cut off the black cooler shroud and fit a dual slot pcie card? Or nah
yeah,... "nah" is about right I think... this is HP, so I don't think they are going to confine themselves to standards like itx to build their thin clients.
Good day! Do you have any idea for the value of capacitor on the msata port both from near the msata connector and on the back side? Thank You!
I don't have the values off the top of my head. I'm guessing you might be referring to the A/C coupling capacitors along the SATA lanes. If you look up "A/C coupling capacitors for SATA" you might find what you need.
Looking really nice. I take it you use it as a router correct? What performance could you expect running openvpn through this equipment could you share any results if you are using this as a vpn /router
I'm not actually using these for VPN, so I don't have "real world" numbers. But, if you believe in this methodology to estimate OpenVPN performance: www.snbforums.com/threads/openvpn-estimate-performance-via-openvpn.33416/ . then these are the numbers I got:
# time openvpn --test-crypto --secret /tmp/secret --verb 0 --tun-mtu 20000 --cipher aes-256-cbc
Wed Jul 25 10:58:18 2018 disabling NCP mode (--ncp-disable) because not in P2MP client or server mode
real 0m14.657s
user 0m14.573s
sys 0m0.074s
# echo "3200 / 14.657" | bc
218
Which estimates about 218Mbps OpenVPN capability.
The unknown stand-offs are for a 2.5 inch internal hard drive. I personal plan to pick one of these up for a HTPC using a half-height graphics card. 8-)
Thanks for watching and sharing about the 2.5" internal HDD. However, I didn't see any internal SATA ports, so how does one connect that internal HDD to the system?
@@ArtofServer I've never seen a drive in 1, only the bracket mounted there. And it was in the revision without the mSATA, so my guess would be an adapter off either the M.2 or mini PCI-e. 8-)
@@ArtofServer FYI Page 15 of the 'Hardware Reference Guide' for the t620 where it shows the internal USB connectors also shows a 2.5" drive which is plug into the mini PCI-e slot via an adapter. Hope this helps. 8-)
@@Kcwomack Thanks!
I ended up using the Slim model, because the Plus models were over priced, which works as a HTPC just fine with an external drive for my media library.
Hey I'm planning on buying this. Was it hard to get it to boot from the installation usb? Can you briefly list the steps? Tha ks
No, it was not difficult to boot from USB. I don't recall the exact sequence. I think press F11 or something during boot to get boot menu. Then select the USB drive. You can look up the specifics on HP's website.
just a quick question, could i put windows 10 on it so i could use it for streaming?
i believe you can, as I've seen other people who have done that. I'm not a Windows user, so I haven't tried it myself.
Hi，thanks this vedio，could you tell me what type of the network card，thanks
I usually use something based on Intel i340-t4.
@@ArtofServer por casualidad sabe si puedo condseguir la explicación traducida al español o con subtitulos??
Which pendrive used in this internal port
there's plenty of room for almost any size USB drive in the internal ports. the one i'm using is the SanDisk Ultra Flair 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - SDCZ73-032G-G46. i've had pretty good experience with these drives. I use to use Samsung ones, but they would fail after a year or so...
can this auto power on when connected to power??
Yes, there is a setting in the BIOS for that.
is that M.2 slot NVMe enabled?
Can you install Windows 10 on this thinclient?
Did you try pfSense on it?
did not see any VGA ports? 2-DP, 2-COMx, 1-LPT, 2-PS/2, 2-USB, 5-NIC, 2-jack, 1-power
M.2 is not NVMe, just SATA i believe.
have not tried Win10, but pfsense works great on these machines.
not all models have VGA port, it's a rare option actually.
m.2 ssd M+B key
Hi,
Apart from pFsense firewall, what would you do with this at home in a lab environment please?
anything your heart desires... possibilities are endless, but this is a pretty versatile little machine.
Art of Server thank you. I am a beginner, would appreciate some advice please.
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Recently (2022/6) I purchased hp t620 plus on ebay. I understand that the machine itself is very low power consumption、so I temporaly used 65W power supply for hp EliteDesk or ProDesk, t620 plus generates 4 times beep sound and red LED flashed. I checked hp "Troubleshooting Guide Busines Pcs", The manual describes "Power failure (power supply is overloaded)", so I swapped from 65 watts to 90 watts power supply (with hp t620 plus) then machine is normal operation. Why so powe supply sensitive? And also thanks for excellent video.
You know, I had the same question myself. I tried the 65W PSU and it would not even power on in my case. I had to use either the 85W or 90W PSUs or higher for it to work. Some say the A/C adapters have a "sensing" line and that is used to detect what type of PSU is connected. Yeah, my T620 Plus never uses more than 20W so I don't know why I have to use a 85W PSU for it to power on???
@@ArtofServer Thanks for your advice. I'm still underway. There are a lot of concerns, such as M.2 memory and WiFi Module setting screws (these are 1.5mm screws.). Many thanks again.
same issue to me as well though in my case it would not power on at all. I basically just snip out the barrel jack for the original power adapter for t620 plus and just rewire it with a 150watt 19.5v power brick from other laptop. test the voltage, all good, plugged it in, didnt powered up.
just a few googling about it, a page from parkytowers mentioning about PSU mod, which basically mentions all the issue I had using 3rd party power adapters. It said just add a 330k ohm resistor and connect it to the center pin of the power barrel jack, so I redid my wiring mod, connect that 330k ohm resistor on that centire pin wire, and short it to 19v+. Plug it in, and here she goes booting up again.
What do you think about using this as a Linux based Nas with USB external hard dives?
if you're not expecting high performance I/O, then that idea might just work. Also, you could do one better, replace the quad port NIC i have with a external SAS controller (like an HBA/IT mode, maybe even RAID) and run a SAS cable to a disk shelf. basically, use this to drive disk shelf as the NAS head.
@@ArtofServer I'm mostly looking for something that is a step up in performance from a raspberry pi
@@StephenCable LOL.. ok, well, this might be several steps up from a RPi!
Wait, Why does it have usb 3.0 ports in front, but your description says that it only has a PCIe 4x slot inside...
So, 3 questions:
1.) Why does it only have pcie2 slot when it is capable of USB 3?
2.) With such a broad PCIe slot, why is it only capable of 4 lanes?
(not sharpshooting, I would genuinely like to understand why it is manufactured as as such and where these things are indicated on the system... I am looking but can't find it printed anywhere.)
3.) Can this system be pulled out and mounted into like a 1u or 2u chassis?
I'm really confused by your questions.... what does PCIe2 slots have to do with USB3?
The x16 PCIe slot allows GPU installation, which was a factory option if you wanted greater graphics capability in this machine. It would allow the GPU to still work, albeit with less PCIe lanes.
It's not a standard motherboard format, so it wouldn't be easily mounted to a standard ATX type chassis, but if you're comfortable drilling/tapping and customizing, I'm sure it would be possible.
Can I add a HHD or SSD????
I don't think it is straight forward to add a HDD. but you can add a M.2 SSD or mSATA SSD.
I've bought 3 different low profile nic cards. HP, Intel and Generic no of them fit. And their not $20. Looking at my dremal, really didn't want to hack this.
you said they were cheap on e-bay your wrong
Hea not wrong if you get the normal slim versions of the t620 cheapest ones i seen were like $32 but with Covid19 things are getting expensive.
Aren't you supposed to wear gloves when you open a PC?
wearing gloves is a hoax; it doesn't work. ;-p
@@ArtofServer My apologies, I was thinking of Papsmear
@@blytelyfe LMAO!