ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 Tiny Desktop

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

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

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.

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.

To be candid, finding a ThinkCentre M70q Gen 3 with a SATA SSD, not NVMe, is slightly concerning as Lenovo didn't ship SATA SSDs with the Gen 3. Often when I've found this setup there been an issue with NVMe support. Depending on region, a Core i3-12100T + 32GB of RAM isn't bad @ 350$, although I'm

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

On the same boat. We have autopatch, but even with automatic driver approval, many firmwares are not released. What I noticed from the report is that some Lenovo models seem to be neglected (E14 gen 2 or 3 for example, or some desktops like m70q) with this method. Have you found a working solution?

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

For this size of storage I would not think more than a few seconds and buy a young used Lenovo m70q tiny with intel cpu and add a bigger ssd for storage. With your arr setup no need to fill dozens of spinning rust harddrives. Just have the media in place you will watch on next time, clean up old stu

Wow. Sorry to hear that. We’ve not had that experience in over a decade of reselling. However we did have issues once, years ago, with a small batch of mini desktops and the onsite service. (Don’t even recall what it was) Since then we spoke with Lenovo and figured out a few rules to follow - always