ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 Tiny Desktop

Definitely do not go for Aoostar or lesser quality brands. If your main worry is 24/7 reliability, I’d stop thinking in terms of “which one box is perfect?” and start thinking in terms of nodes in a cluster. The Beelink SER5 Max gives you a stronger iGPU and more RAM out of the box (6800H + 32 GB DD

Were in the same situation an seperated the storage and compute devices. Currently running a Synology DS 723+ with extra 16GB of RAM, 2x WD Red SN700 1TB nvme's and two 8TB HDDs. No need for RAID5 IMHO. For compute I have two Lenovo m70q with i5 10600T CPUs, 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Some cons

Im a big fan of mini-PCs. Things like HP Elitedesk G4 and Lenovo M70q are cheap, take no room, almost silent (that's a big one if you don't have a basement to hide them in) and surprisingly powerful. I run a full Proxmox cluster on a set of mini-PCs.

I would expect only one of those lenovos to have a pci-e slot, The red tag one. The others are likely m70q but hard to tell as cant see the tops of the cases to see if they have heat grills which would then indicate m90q, which would have the slot plus two nvme slots. The m70q (if that's what they a

Your bottleneck isn't network or storage — it's transcoding. The Pi 4 doesn't have hardware video acceleration that Plex can use, so when a mobile client can't direct-play (mismatched codec, screen size, bandwidth limit), the Pi software-transcodes and 4 cores aren't enough. That's why "optimize for

Id buy this: Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 – Tiny Desktop – 14th-Gen Intel Core i5-14400T – 16 GB DDR5 – 512 GB NVMe SSD – Intel UHD Graphics 730 – Wi-Fi 6E & Gigabit Ethernet – NO OS – Raven Black (Open Box) https://sellout.woot.com/offers/lenovo-thinkcentre-m70q-gen-5-tiny-desktop-14th-gen-intel-c

Lenovo Thinkcentre... best minis for home lab Try to look for recent models of m70q , m75q or m90q i5 should be good for basic home labbing. I would say fo with i7 (if available in cheap), 16GB RAM minimum.

To be candid, finding a ThinkCentre M70q Gen 3 with a SATA SSD, not NVMe, is slightly concerning as Lenovo didn't ship SATA SSDs with the Gen 3. Often when I've found this setup there been an issue with NVMe support. Depending on region, a Core i3-12100T + 32GB of RAM isn't bad @ 350$, although I'm

All of those models are REALLY old. The Dell OptiPlex 7010, 790, and 9010, are from the early 2010s and are only DDR3. The Precision T5500 is a workstation from the same DDR3 era but only accepts ECC RAM. Workstations typically have different processor, ram and other options compared to consumer dev

I'm using an older Lenovo M710q early gen I had spare, which is working well under Ubuntu with Docker Compose. Has NVME port for the DB, 4-core i5, 16GB RAM, hardware acceleration for H.264 (unfortunately not HVEC but for the ~$100 it cost back in the day it beats an RPI). New edition M70q Gen 5/6 h