Hi All
We have 25 Units in stock for Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF Desktop PC Core i5 (4th Generation)
Small size compare to Desktop Version and Great Unit for Home or Office Use.
Overview
Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF PC
Quad Core i5 4570 @ 3.20GHz
Intel HD 4600 Graphics
128GB SSD
8GB Ram
Built-In Speaker
Win 10 Home Installed (Win 7/8 COA attached)
Original P5OFF 5% off Sitewide on eBay Deal Post
It can take one more hdd (2.5"). 3 x SATA Port.
They have an extra SATA port, but no bay for the hard drive, so you have to sort of slot or stick it somewhere in the case. You also need a power splitter that can connect to the existing SATA-power cable (like this https://ebay.us/OyK9AW), and a SATA data cable as well.
All 9020 SFF from our eBay store come with Power Splitter but required SATA Cable. Those unit have 2.5" SSD but can take another 2.5" hdd with existing bay/caddy.
Do these have inbuilt wifi?
No Inbuilt WiFi. PCIe WiFi Card can be added
How much for a ac one.
Quick question, could I jimmy a decent graphics card into this one if I didn't put the case back on?
(thinking about a virtual pinball rig, and the box will be inside a cabinet, so I could get away without the case).
Perhaps a PCIE riser could work?
that's probably a better idea than mine. I was going to say just pull it out of the case.
This is actually what I'd planned on doing (puling it out)…
Was just wondering if it would fit (a decent graphics card, that is).
@Adz81: Grab a raiser https://www.ebay.com/p/Pci-express-Pci-e-16x-to-16x-Slot-Ris… and one of these https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/426683 add cable ties and you're set.
Won't just run pinball would be a very suitable gaming rig
Are these worth the extra $60 over yesterday’s deal?
Those 73 were OzBargained in under 5 hours.
These were selling for $315 two and three months ago.
There are 25 of them.
Yesterday's deal was better.
Yesterday's was also 3rd gen, this one is 4th. Small spec bump, but worth it imo.
It's not just a spec bump, these have likely also had one whole year less usage, wear and tear.
Are people seiously lazy enough to not look at the specs?
Page 29 of the Owner's Manual
Will have difficulty fitting 3 drives in it but - SFF doesn't lend a lot of space. There'll be one existing and you could swap out the Optical for a HDD. You'd then have to find somewhere to fit the third.
If you want to keep the optical drive, then a USB to laptop DVD adapter works perfectly that you can then thread out the back of the case to a USB port.
I've managed to squeeze 3 drives in - 2 SSDs, 1 HDD - in addition to the optical drive in its' original location.
How do you refurbish? Do you swap the thermal paste on the CPU cooler?
lol… Good trolling…
They buy the whole batch from mgs.net.au for about $180 each and re-sell them. Presumably they clean out the dust from four years of usage in a government office with crappy carpet.
A thinkpad t440 is about same price and spec, on ebay.
Grabbed one, missed out on yesterday’s deal
I have one of these lying around gathering dust at the moment as it can't fit in enough drives in it. I am looking to use it for running Xpenology as it's more powerful than my N54L which is running Xpenology at the moment.
Does anyone know what alternative case I could transpose the 9020 into?
Or would I be better to keep the N54 running with just the drives and access them from the 9020.
You probably can't put it in a different case - the motherboard is not a standard size, so you'd need to drill your own holes for the standoffs. The back panel I/O is not standard either, so you'd need to cut it out in your case.
I'd check that. I've taken Mobo from something similar recently to replace a dead one in my son's older gaming rig. And apart from limit SATA ports it worked fine. So you maybe fine to throw it in whatever cheap case you grab.
Sorry the other poster is wrong, you can totally put these in another case - I've just built myself a new NAS server using one of these and its working great.
The motherboard mounting points are standard micro atx layout, so you can put it in any case that supports that. I used a Thermaltake H24 case. No hole drilling required. You dont have an I/O shield, but they're not that important.
You will need an adapter if you want to use an alternate ATX power supply though, search ebay for "dell 8 to 24 pin" adapters.
Also if you want your bios to skip fan power errors you will need to have some connected, if you dont want to use the dell ones you will again need an adapter. Search ebay for "dell 5 pin fan adapter".
I popped a cheap 4 port pci to sata card, shucked a bunch of 8tb seagate drives and now have a nice new NAS up and running thanks to one of these old dell machines!
edit: forgot to add, had to update its bios to install alternate OS but once I got that done its working fine
Awesome detail, thanks.
Was the bios update just the latest from Dell's site for this model?
Yeah that was pretty much it. It wasn't booting off my USB (I went with open media vault) but I grabbed the latest bios off the Dell site and then it worked fine.
@rx8geek: Cool thanks. I may stick with the standard fan in the 9020 for the time being but I expect that may not last long if I am throwing multiple drives and raid data pci-e card.
Ordered the case as well earlier today.
Hi rx8geek
How did you wire up the power switch with the new case you bought? I have started transferring over to the H24 but the Dell proprietary power switch doesn't transfer. Are you using the original switch mounted in the new case somewhere or have you rewired the case switch into the dell mobo socket?
Any other tips you found when rebuilding?
Cheers
Oh yeah, the other proprietary connector, forgot to mention that one! I pulled the power switch from the old case (it has clips that pull out from the front panel) and left it plugged into the motherboard. I then used some electronics breadboard jumper wires (like these: https://core-electronics.com.au/solderless-breadboard-jumper…) to connect the power switch by poking the breadboard pins into the plug and the other end to the connector on the switch. The wires are just held in with friction from being jammed into the plug beside the connecting wire, but its enough to get the power switch working.
You'd probably need to cut the wires on the dell switch if you want something more durable, but it probably wouldnt be hard to splice them in. Since its just a momentary switch its pretty safe to do. I found it hard to find a pin out and just did some experimenting shorting terminals to work out what pins they were and it was the bottom two pins, where bottom is with the motherboard mounted in a vertically in the case.
I didn't bother connecting the power led but it would be two pins on the same switch, you would probably need a multi meter to know which pins it is.
The HDD activity led is part of the separate USB front panel thing, so I didnt bother connecting that either. Since its an always on NAS I could do without flashing lights. You can pull the plastic front panel USB ports out of the old case if you wanted to connect that and retain the USB ports, but you might need to route it out the rear io area somehow. I just left it hanging inside the case with a USB stick plugged in formatted as a scratch disk for the nas.
I had a PCIe USB card spare that had a connector compatible to the front panel USB 3 port.
The USB connectors are completely different from normal USB2 or USB3 front panel connectors from memory. So you would need to rewire the connector, and have to be careful working out the pins if you wanted to use your front panel ports. I dont think I'd bother, too much risk to damage things.
Good luck!
@rx8geek: Thanks for the detailed response. I stumbled across another site that had the pin outs for the power and power led so I have managed to hook those up to be able to use the power button on the case.
Hopefully I can get some thermal paste today so I can reassemble the CPU fan, I am going to use some standard washers and nuts to secure given the original case had captive thread to secure the fan.
Getting there slowly.
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How many HDD drives (and what size) can fit in this? Assuming it also has enough sata ports to match?