The second attempt at installing Proxmox was successful, and I know have a Proxmox Version 8.2.4 host in the house!#

Installation of Proxmox on to the 1 TB NVMe is taking a long time. I've found others who have reported the same issue, sits at 3% on LV install for a long time before quickly finishing up. The first install completed and rebooted the computer back in to Windows, and I saw problems with Secure Boot that seemed to prevent the installation from working. I am installing a second time after turning Secure Boot off.#

I received the HP EliteDesk 800 G3 that I ordered via Newegg and was surpised that it was the larger "Small Form Factor" model rather than the smaller mini computer model. On one hand, the larger model is easier upgrading, but on the other hand it will take up more physical space. Last night I booted it up, configured the Win 10 that it comes with, download and ran Geekbench 6 and found it to be the second fastest computer in the lab. #

The Geekbench 6 scores of the EliteDesk are twice that of the Beelink U59 Pro that is my "new" Proxmox computer, and it only cost me $100 (refurbished and very clean). My original plan was to use this EliteDesk as a backup server, but it seems foolish to not use this better performing computer as a Proxmox host, so I am installing Proxmox 8.2 on it and plan to re-purpose the HP Probook 6460b that is my first Proxmox server as the backup server. #