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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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[–] 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

I use a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q to host both Minecraft (Java edition) and Vintage Story server. I think that your ThinkCentre have a better CPU (mine is an i5 like, 6 gen), so, easily you could host many things without issue.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago

    Ah nice, another vintage story aficionado 👌 Have my server running on my mini pc in a LXC since a couple of weeks, sadly haven't found a lot of time exploring v1.21 since becoming a dad last year 😄

    But yeah was looking for a bit beefier server hardware to maybe run some more game servers like Valheim or Satisfactory besides my other selfhosting services.

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