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

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

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.

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

Sadly you're buying in worst possible time, even used equipment is horribly expensive. I just got a Lenovo m70q gen5 for £280, but I only need nvme slots, also bought pre ai apocalypse. An n100 is probably fine. My existing server runs Ubuntu server and needs less than 8gb ram. The internal intel vi

Les meilleurs plan que j'ai trouvé c'était soit les NUC-like (dont le Beelink oui), soit les mini-PC d'entreprise reconditionnés (Lenovo Thinkcentre, HP ProDesk/Elitedesk, Dell Optiplex Mini...). Ces derniers sont théoriquement plus durables mais ont des composants moins modernes à prix égal. J'ai f

i've been down this road with the whole n100 vs used tiny pc thing. what helped me was grabbing an Intel NUC 11 with Core i5 when prices dropped. the quick sync on 11th gen handles 4k hdr transcoding without breaking a sweat and you get dual channel ram. for under 300 eur look for used Lenovo ThinkC

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

Id buy this: Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 – Tiny Desktop – 14th-Gen Intel Core i5-14400T – 16 GB DDR5 – 512 GB NVMe SSD – Intel UHD Graphics 730 – Wi-Fi 6E & Gigabit Ethernet – NO OS – Raven Black (Open Box) https://sellout.woot.com/offers/lenovo-thinkcentre-m70q-gen-5-tiny-desktop-14th-gen-intel-c

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.