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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 (1 child)

I know this may not be a useful point, but just wanted to note that paying the equivalent of €380 here in the US would be an absolutely crazy price for a used edition of one of those. I'd expect those to go for the equivalent of 65-70 euros at the low end, around 100 fully loaded with the most useful parts. Even with international shipping, I'd think you could do drastically better.

From personal experience though, I run 4 of the Lenovo Tinys in my lab currently. I can highly recommend the M700/M900 line, M920 if you can get it, but the M70Q is fine.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Don't forget about those prices:
    Price of the article

    • Shipping
    • Customs handling fees (at least in Germany and with DHL as the handler you can't not have itbwithout jumping through some hoops. DHL Express does it free but you have to provide the info for customs)
      = customs fees (article + shipping (+6€ customs service by DHL) + import tax (in Germany 19%))

    And that quickly adds.
    So assume 100€ for PC (IMO highly unlikely for those specs)

    • 30€ Intl. shipping from US to Germany (Assumption the parcel weighs >5kg and is tracked)
    • 6€ for DHL
      = 136€
      136€ + 19% customs (either VAT or Import if it's between private parties) = 161€

    (Depending on the price, customs may cite you to their office to open the parcel to proof if the contents of the parcel are correct the value goes over 150€)

    So yeah...Importing is quite a bitch.
    Better to search within the EU (assuming OP is from the European Union or Schengen region)

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