There is also a TV mount that you can place the HD-ID11 into and then fit to your TV.
Accessibility is made easier with the mount by the fact you can slide the HD-ID11 up, and even out if needed.
You don’t need to use either the mount or the stand if you don’t want to – the HD-ID11 has feet if you want to have it resting horizontally.
And just to show how small the HD-ID11 actually is, here it is next to my iPhone 4.
Adding a Hard Drive and Memory
Because the HD-ID11 is a bare-bones PC, you have to add your own hard drive and memory. The supported hard drives are 2.5” (so basically laptop drives) and the memory is a single 200-pin DDR-800 SO-DIMM. I picked up a 2GB stick for just over £20 so I was quite happy about that.
Getting into the HD-ID11 is very simple because ZOTAC have made it easy for anyone to do it. All you need to do is remove either the stand or the mount, then unscrew the two black screws and slide off the panel. Simple!
Inside you will see the guts of the HD-ID11.
As you can see, no memory or hard drive is installed.
So I took my memory and fitting it with no problems at all.
And then I did the same thing with the hard drive I had. This took a few moments longer as you need to unscrew a catch, slide your drive in, and then screw in the catch again. Again, it was very simple.
Here the fully loaded HD-ID11 now.
Total amount of time to do – less than 5 minutes.
Hi Andrew,
I use one with a 50GB SSD and 4GB 1333 Ram
and dual 22″ 1050 monitors.
works great, i mounted the little guy on the back of one of the monitors so all you see drop down from behind is 3 power plugs
ps it was cool to meet up with Tim at CES. sorry i missed you, lets do lunch next year 🙂
thanks Greg
I really liked the Zbox, and I’m looking forward to getting some more.
And looking forward to finally meeting up at CES next year!
I use this box… I have 3 running with 1 GB 800MHZ DDR/ 8 GB SD card DRive switched the WIFI card to an intel 6300 for Dual Band… XBMC live 10.1 install to wrap it all up. WHS/SQL Source all synced to whs and feed from. beats my old WMC/My Movies impliment by far.
Wish it had internal Remote… but I work around it.
Very Lightwieght/ cool/ quiet/ not too pricey..
They really are cool little boxes – I was very surprised just how good they were!
I’ve got one of these boxes, while I’d agree that for the most part they’re very good, the built in wireless card is awful and would continually freeze and drop the signal even when it was sitting next to the router (Googling seems to indicate I’m not the only one with this problem), while I never intended to use the wireless with this, it would have been nice while I was setting it up.
Also the ION2/Atom combination isn’t capable of handling 1080i, so while you can play Blu-Rays just great with it, you can forget about watching BBC HD or ITV HD with it, which is why my box is now sitting in the kids bedroom.
thanks Paul – I haven’t had those problems myself, but i will certainly keep my eyes open for them.