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Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you have experience running their services on a Lenovo ThinkCentre, specifically a Lenovo ThinkCentre M70Q Gen1? From what I read they can be quite efficient when it comes to idle power draw.

I have the chance to buy a refurbished one for approx. €380, coming with a i5-10400T, 16 GB RAM and a 256 GB NVMe SSD. Do you guys think the price sounds fair?

I am mainly looking to expand my Proxmox single host setup comprising of an Intel N150 mini PC with a second node as backup. Maybe down the line if I can get my hands on another affordable mini PC I might dabble in setting up a Kubernetes cluster. But that's a project for another day 😄

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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

That's newer hardware than what i've got, and I know ram is expensive now, but I paid ~$100 USD for my thinkcenter M800 and it has been great.

Mine did not come with SSD though, and instead had a 3TB HHD.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    the ram on ops model would be ddr4, not 5. pricing is not that bad on ddr4 if I'm not mistaken

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    Yeah looking at prices in stores in my region for ddr4 its still like a 60%+ price increase since like the beginning of November last year. Actually wanted to build my own server, but with the price increase on most of the core pc components, I guess just bad timing #fuckai

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