ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 Tiny Desktop

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ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 Tiny Desktop

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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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Need a budget-friendly recommendation for an upgrade.

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

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cube_engineer in r/selfhosted

April 30, 2026 2:08 AM

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Recommended mini-pc

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.

cloud4nm in r/minilab

March 10, 2026 11:40 AM

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Planning my first home server setup

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

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bcm27 in r/HomeServer

September 12, 2025 1:52 AM

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Best low power consumption HW recommendation for immich?

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

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veridian5 in r/immich

April 15, 2026 12:43 PM

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Hardware für Home Server gesucht

Ich hab mehrere homeserver zuhause, ich kann mehrere konfigurationen empfehlen. Du kannst zum beispiel nen mini pc wie nen lenovo thinkcentre m70q oder m90q usw nehmen, mit intel gen 11 oder 12, hab einen m70q und nen m90q am laufen, für gewisse anwendungen und einen großen tower als fileserver und

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Fluffy-Trash-559 in r/EDV

February 27, 2026 10:13 AM

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Recommendation for Proxmox Server

HP Prodesk Mini or Lenovo M70q There are many generations and you want to try and get newer ones. You can tell by the CPU model number

pwkye in r/Proxmox

March 26, 2026 10:01 PM

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Wanting to purchase gmktec evo-t1 ai mini pc and run it as a server for Minecraft

would be overkill for a minecraft server that mini pc is meant to be used for LLM and AI Learning software not to mention its pricey i would suggest the Gmktec K8 Plus as a better value i use it to run playit.gg and host my own little minecraft server for friends on steam and what not it would be a

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MyLittlePrimordia in r/GMKtec

January 4, 2026 5:00 PM

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