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Ideally sub $600 or so where the most is spent on decent HDDs + 1 NVME m2 drive.

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https://www.newegg.com/hp-elitedesk-8300-student-home-office/p/1VK-001E-18U12?Description=refurb&cm_re=refurb-_-1VK-001E-18U12-_-Product&quicklink=true

I don't know what kind of expansion you're looking for, but there's room for at least one hard drive already, and if you drop the dvd drive, you can get a bracket that supports a 3.5 and a 2.5 drive. It's unlikely that you'll be getting a computer this way that has nvme support, but if you're set on using an ssd for the operating system, you could easily get away with a sata variant.

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Oh interesting.

Never thought of going this route. I'd prefer 2 full 3.5" HDD with room for a 2.5" SSD - that clearly can't do M.2, which is fine because the speed increase for M.2 isn't really that necessary for personal use server OS drive.

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I can vouch for that. I have a couple of nvme drives, and the only time I see how fast they are is when copying from one to the other. lol

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wat?

That thing can support a displayport out? WTF? DP output is 4k, is it not?

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Indeed. But probably just for desktop resolution.