ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 Tiny Desktop

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ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 Tiny Desktop

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Which is the better buy for 24/7 home server?

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

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aki45_ in r/MiniPCs

November 22, 2025 6:05 AM

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Is a refurbished Dell Optiplex Micro (i5-10500T) a good starting point for a CS student? Plans for a gradual upgrade path.

Is this AI? I think everything you posted is just plain wrong. Running Immich on an 10600T here with the latest Immich version. Quicksync with the iGPU just works, no issues here. And 900W for a micro PC is just ridiculous. My two Lenovo m70q are idling happily with about 6W of power draw.

NiftyLogic in r/selfhosted

July 8, 2026 9:16 AM

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Is there real demand for used Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny desktops? Trying to gauge fair pricing

A retired friend of mine bought a ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 12TD001KUS Tiny new through the county school system earlier this year for a little over $500. Looks similar to yours with the exception of a 512GB SSD and a single 16GB stick of RAM (something she didn't know when she bought it). I helped her

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Retired_Hillbilly336 in r/MiniPCs

July 17, 2026 7:59 PM

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Home Server Upgrade: Split TrueNAS & Compute (Proxmox?) or Keep All-in-One?

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

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NiftyLogic in r/selfhosted

April 10, 2026 2:43 PM

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What Starter PC?

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.

shimoheihei2 in r/selfhosted

March 28, 2026 11:44 AM

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What should I use this mini PC stack for? i5 with 64GB RAM each!

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

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Cook1e_mr in r/minilab

November 13, 2025 7:34 AM

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Having the hardest time trying to update Lenovo ThinkCentre BIOS using SCCM

We ran into issues with this dogshit model, too. Upgraded thousands of other Lenovo, HP, and Dell endpoints and had zero issues. M70q goes to BSOD on reboot and our techs have to manually touch them to fix them.

guydogg in r/SCCM

June 4, 2026 12:20 AM

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First home server — hardware advice for my use case?

Sadly you're buying in worst possible time, even used equipment is horribly expensive. I just got a Lenovo m70q gen5 for £280, but I only need nvme slots, also bought pre ai apocalypse. An n100 is probably fine. My existing server runs Ubuntu server and needs less than 8gb ram. The internal intel vi

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hometechgeek in r/selfhosted

May 26, 2026 2:34 PM

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Mercredi Tech - 2026-05-27

Les meilleurs plan que j'ai trouvé c'était soit les NUC-like (dont le Beelink oui), soit les mini-PC d'entreprise reconditionnés (Lenovo Thinkcentre, HP ProDesk/Elitedesk, Dell Optiplex Mini...). Ces derniers sont théoriquement plus durables mais ont des composants moins modernes à prix égal. J'ai f

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ChuckMauriceFacts in r/france

May 27, 2026 5:13 PM

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[EU] Upgrade from TerraMaster NAS to Mini PC for Docker & Plex: N100 vs Used Enterprise? Hard to find fair prices

i've been down this road with the whole n100 vs used tiny pc thing. what helped me was grabbing an Intel NUC 11 with Core i5 when prices dropped. the quick sync on 11th gen handles 4k hdr transcoding without breaking a sweat and you get dual channel ram. for under 300 eur look for used Lenovo ThinkC

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LetterheadClassic306 in r/HomeServer

May 21, 2026 11:15 AM

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