Going beyond 16GB on HP T620 Plus - How to upgrade RAM
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2019
- In this video, I'm going to upgrade the HP T620 Plus beyond its official spec of 16GB maximum RAM capacity.
The specific RAM modules I used are:
Micron MT16KTF2G64HZ-1G6A1
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Love the idea. Thanks.
Great video. Well described.
Thank you for this great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I use it as a poor man's windows 2019 server and it works great with my cisco lab using vlans, I put windows admin server on it and works like a charm! btw I'm using cat5e. You should have more subs because this is good work for repurpose equipment not that we are in covid. Keep up the good work bro.
Cool! Thanks for watching 😊
good info, thanks
Awesome!!! Thank you!!!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
Great video! I'm using my t620+ as esxi server, now i'm thinking to buy more ram for it.
Nice! They aren't cheap though... but awesome little machine.
@@ArtofServer i got it for really cheap. Btw i've put 2.5 500gb hdd inside, if you interested i can show, how i did that.
@@ukapota yes sir, please show for me.
Intersting. I'm using one of these as an opnsense firewall and it ran out of memory yesterday when enabling Suricata (intrusion detection), most likely due to memory issues. I have only 4 GB currently.
If you want to use Suricata seriously, you probably want a more powerful box with more RAM. Consider the T730 instead.
I just bought a t620 & 2 of the Micron memory sticks you referenced (they were HARD to find at a reasonable price). I saw your unit HAD a VGA port; I'm not certain if the one I bought does. It may have 2 'displayports'. It also may have some serial-looking port that allegedly can be configured as a VGA port, but after hours of scouring the 'Net, I find no data on that. Appreciated.
Nice!
Thanks!
I was looking for one or two of these, they seem really great for what i want a custom pfsense or other open source router. But they are hard to come by in my country.
that's too bad. if your country doesn't have high import tariffs, I sell them in my store and ship globally via eBay global shipping.
i'd be curious on whether the storage can be upgraded to more than 64gb. My t620 plus is Rev B and doesn't have the MSATA slot, so I have no choice but to use the M.2 slot for storage. I've seen guys use a 2.5" drives inside, but not sure how they connect those....I imagine using some adapter to MSATA.
the M.2 slot is SATA-3 I believe. so my guess is that typical SATA-3 limitations apply here. I don't think 64GB is going to be a problem.
What's your opinion on this or t730 for opnsense? Or a dell optiplex? I'm torn which one to get. Want to be able to have enough power for service expansions within opnsense in future.
I haven't used opnsense in a while, and have never ran it in production environment, so it's hard to say specifically for that application. But from a hardware perspective, I prefer the T620 Plus over the T730 for 1Gbps routing/firewall. The T620 Plus has more than enough compute power to do 1Gbps firewall/routing near line speed, and it has much less power consumption than the T730.
@@ArtofServer I got a T730 and used it for a while, but then I realized it was running at something like 30 or 40 watts. I ended up replacing with a Dell Wyse 5070 Extended. Perhaps a T620 Plus would've been a better initial choice.
I know that Video is old, but where did you find the 16GB DDR3 SODIMM Modules? I found only one model and that costs more then the complete PC including 2x8GB
they are a bit hard to come by, but they can be found on eBay. they are not cheap.
Gday from Oz, Why is it reporting as SINGLE CHANNEL?? instead of Dual Channel?? on mine i have 1 x 4gb and 1 x 2gb and reports 6gb @ single channel. is there several bios update stage to get up to the latest version of firmware like u have? i am on L40 V02.05 and there is no option in the bios under file in the menu saying "Flash system rom"... got any ideas there?
Not sure about the single channel thing...
For the BIOS update, I just downloaded the HP update and there was a UEFI program to update the BIOS which I ran from the UEFI shell and had the UEFI program on a USB drive.
@@ArtofServer ok will this shell work on my old bios, cos i did see an option for it on the F9 option. can u give me the download link so i can follow up on that?
This processor’s memory controller only supports single channel mode according to AMD’s data sheet. I have this exact model and there’s nothing you can really do to force it to dual channel mode.
Thank you for the video. I been thinking about buying the T620 thin model I have done the research and have put a side all the upgrades need it to get this puppy up to speed. I can install all this stuff in 5 minutes. But that is as far as I go... so it brings me to my stupid question /limitations..... once I upgrade the SSD to a 128GB I WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO UPGRADE TO windows 10. Should I keep the original 16gb SSD on the main port and just add the 128gb one on the other port and have the appearing system give the option to upgrade to windows 10 is that even possible... if it is I AM RUNNING BLING AS A BAT . What do I do next . Thanks
sorry, i know very little about Windows. if you're needing more storage in this machine, I would definitely replace the 16GB SSD. It's in a M.2 SATA (not PCIe) slot, and there are several large capacity options for that.
@@ArtofServer Is the maximum capacity for HP thin client plus M.2 in 120GB ? or it can go beyond 120GB?
@@thaddeuscleo5920 I haven't tried any large m.2 SSDs myself, but I see no reason why there would be such a limitation.
@@thaddeuscleo5920 probably goes up to 1tb, I would have tried bigger than 128gb but it's expensive sadly.
Do you know if it will also accept standard DDR3 1.5V ram?
have not tried. no idea...
I (just) received my own unit and it seems to run on standard DDR3. I've ran memtest86+ without errors. I use the stock 4GB DDR3L with another stick of 4GB DDR3.
Can you link to the quad-port network card you are using in this machine, may be in your eBay store? Thanks
It's an Intel i340-T4 I believe. best option for this use case IMHO, but there are other options too.
@@ArtofServer Thank you. Is Intel i350-T4 any good? I think I saw it recommended on reddit.
9:29 It is always running as single channel mode. Is there any chance to run as dual channel mode. Does it support dual channel mode
I don't think so.
I got a Dell WYSE 5060 quad core on 16GB RAM spec sheets state max 8GB running Win 10
That's awesome!
Hi Paul,
May I ask if the model you have is the 5060 NO7D please? I have an offer, and would buy it if it is uprgradable. Thanks
This is awesome! I’d still use it as a firewall just because I enjoy overkill stuff. Be like, “Oh yeah? Well does your router firewall you got from Walmart have 32gb of RAM?! Pffttt.... I think NOT you peasant!!” Lolz
LOL. bam!
Will it work on the HP T730 please?
ssshhhh.... but yes, it does! :-)
What SSD disk does it support? Is it only mSATA?
yes, I think both the mSATA and M.2 both support SATA drives only.
hello so for the normal T620 not the T620 + we also had to be 32gb?
Idk
@@ArtofServer ldk?I did not understand?
The regular T620 and the T620 Plus do not have the same motherboard and CPU. The regular T620 is only a two core CPU whereas the Plus has a four core CPU.
And also there is no pcie port.
Did you have to update bios to do 32gb of ram?
I don't think so... but I do have the latest BIOS update on this unit when I did the video.
@@ArtofServer Do you happen to have the file still or a link to it by any chance? Im currently in the process in buying the t620 plus soon, Also holy crap!! That ram has gotten expensive as hell for 32gb.
@@ArtofServer Have you tried running vurtual machines on your t620 plus?? , Im trying to virtualize two linux based oses on mine with 8gb of ram the vms only need 55- 128mb of memory to 1 - 2gb so good on that.
Can you upgrade cpu and hdd?
The CPU is soldered to the motherboard so no for that. No mount for a hard drive. It takes an M.2 SATA flash drive, whatever size you wish for storage.
@12:47 = cores 1-active/ 1-total ? RAM: 666MHz (ddr3-1333)
This AMD GX-420CA, is it not a 2.0GHz Quad-core?
Did you linux say memory speed was DDR3-1600?
The picture say StateL Running - Test #3 at 41%, did it complete all test?
take a closer look at that screenshot. PASS: 1, means it passed all tests and the 41% is the 2nd pass... memtest86+ will keep running until you stop it.
also, memtest86+ has some issues running on this AMD processor, so I had to force it into single threaded mode to work. That's why you see "SMP Disabled" on the screenshot, and why 1-active/1-total. But yes, in Linux, it has a quad core GX-420CA, and yes 1600 MT/s as seen earlier in the video.
Interesting, so these take more RAM than the spec sheet says.
Just the video is far too long for the content. It seriously is like watching paint dry.
You do yourself and everyone a favor if you learn to come to the point.
Thanks for your feedback.