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Do you have an examples of good ones?

by nusl 2y ago

voidUpdate 2y ago
Lenovo make some pretty good small form factor x86 computers that can be picked up from ebay or similar for quite cheap. I forget exactly what model I got but I put ubuntu on it and it's been working fine for my applications (Home assistant, slowly migrating my website, might get another to use for NAS purposes)
- nirav72 2y ago
  The Lenovo m720q or the m920q. What makes them amazing despite their small form factor, is that they actually have a 8x PCIe slot you can use once you get a riser card for it. Either to add a GPU, Additional NIC or a HBA card to connect to a JBOD. I'm using a m720q as a OPNSense router and its been great.
avsteele 2y ago
Look on e.g. Amazon/eBay for refurbished/refreshed Lenvovos and such. The m900 is a good choice.
haunter 2y ago
Dell, HP, Lenovo all make good x86 micro computers in the same form factor. A lot of these are available refurbished from enterprise sources so almost always in good conditions https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/ https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...
scary-size 2y ago
I'm using a Lenovo ThinkCentre M715Q (Ryzen 5 PRO 3,2 GHz, SSD 256 GB, RAM 8 GB). Bought it "used" for 180 EUR last year, though it was in almost perfect condition. Pretty happy with it so far. Runs a few cron jobs to generate some static sites, a local WordPress instance and pi-hole.
- mon_ 2y ago
  That's at least twice as expensive as a new Pi.
  - echoangle 2y ago
    Not really, a Pi with 8GB RAM, case and Power Supply would be around $110 or so, right? With storage even more. And the mentioned PC is probably almost twice as fast as a Pi.
    - mon_ 2y ago
      With the PSU and a micro SD its about 90 EUR from The Pi Hut. A case isn't necessary but can be got for a tenner.
      - echoangle 2y ago
        Got a link? The starter set with 32GB SD card and 8GB RAM is £112… so you still have to get an SSD and SATA hat, or the hat this post is about. Then you’re at atleast £125, and your performance will be much lower than the mentioned PC.
  - tehbeard 2y ago
    8gb pi 5 £76.80 27W PSU £11.60 case? - £9.60 SATA hat - £29.00 256GB SSD - £24 (reputable brand) Total is £151,or roughly €181
- amelius 2y ago
  Does it have noisy fans?
  - scary-size 2y ago
    It does have fans that I only ever heard spin up during a reboot. I assume you would hear them if the machine is under continuous load, mine isn't). The small dimensions allow you to stow it away pretty easily.
echoangle 2y ago
I’m currently using a Futro S720 at home. It’s probably much slower than the latest RasPis, but I only paid 20€ (I actually bought multiple and got one for less than 10€!) for it. A RasPi starts 65€, with accessories you’re probably looking at 90€ or so. The S720 is fine for my use case, but you can also look at the S920, which should have better performance and can still be bought below 25€. If you add the smallest reasonable SSD (128 GB probably), you’re still at only 40€ total. All the prices are local to me of course, the availability might be different for you. Here’s a good page with info on many thin clients: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/ https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/
tmjwid 2y ago
I use a HP T640 currently as my main "home lab" server and I'm planning on relocating the old Dell/Wyse Zx0Q to my mums as a backup server. I run about 20 different containers at the moment and run TVheadend bare metal with 3 DVB-T2 tuners. Both machine used USB3 - Sata enclosures for extra storage. Work greats. The old Dell machine even did transcoding in JellyFin for 1080p content, which was not expected given how crap the cpu is in it. Everything ran fast and stable. Check out Parky Towers for in-depth info on many different thin clients.

Do you have an examples of good ones?

by nusl 2y ago

Do you have an examples of good ones?

Lenovo make some pretty good small form factor x86 computers that can be picked up from ebay or similar for quite cheap. I forget exactly what model I got but I put ubuntu on it and it's been working fine for my applications (Home assistant, slowly migrating my website, might get another to use for NAS purposes)

nirav72 2y ago
The Lenovo m720q or the m920q. What makes them amazing despite their small form factor, is that they actually have a 8x PCIe slot you can use once you get a riser card for it. Either to add a GPU, Additional NIC or a HBA card to connect to a JBOD. I'm using a m720q as a OPNSense router and its been great.

avsteele 2y ago

Look on e.g. Amazon/eBay for refurbished/refreshed Lenvovos and such. The m900 is a good choice.

haunter 2y ago

Dell, HP, Lenovo all make good x86 micro computers in the same form factor. A lot of these are available refurbished from enterprise sources so almost always in good conditions https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/ https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...

scary-size 2y ago

I'm using a Lenovo ThinkCentre M715Q (Ryzen 5 PRO 3,2 GHz, SSD 256 GB, RAM 8 GB). Bought it "used" for 180 EUR last year, though it was in almost perfect condition. Pretty happy with it so far. Runs a few cron jobs to generate some static sites, a local WordPress instance and pi-hole.

mon_ 2y ago
That's at least twice as expensive as a new Pi.
- echoangle 2y ago
  Not really, a Pi with 8GB RAM, case and Power Supply would be around $110 or so, right? With storage even more. And the mentioned PC is probably almost twice as fast as a Pi.
  - mon_ 2y ago
    With the PSU and a micro SD its about 90 EUR from The Pi Hut. A case isn't necessary but can be got for a tenner.
    - echoangle 2y ago
      Got a link? The starter set with 32GB SD card and 8GB RAM is £112… so you still have to get an SSD and SATA hat, or the hat this post is about. Then you’re at atleast £125, and your performance will be much lower than the mentioned PC.
- tehbeard 2y ago
  8gb pi 5 £76.80 27W PSU £11.60 case? - £9.60 SATA hat - £29.00 256GB SSD - £24 (reputable brand) Total is £151,or roughly €181
amelius 2y ago
Does it have noisy fans?
- scary-size 2y ago
  It does have fans that I only ever heard spin up during a reboot. I assume you would hear them if the machine is under continuous load, mine isn't). The small dimensions allow you to stow it away pretty easily.

echoangle 2y ago

I’m currently using a Futro S720 at home. It’s probably much slower than the latest RasPis, but I only paid 20€ (I actually bought multiple and got one for less than 10€!) for it. A RasPi starts 65€, with accessories you’re probably looking at 90€ or so. The S720 is fine for my use case, but you can also look at the S920, which should have better performance and can still be bought below 25€. If you add the smallest reasonable SSD (128 GB probably), you’re still at only 40€ total. All the prices are local to me of course, the availability might be different for you. Here’s a good page with info on many thin clients: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/ https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/

tmjwid 2y ago

I use a HP T640 currently as my main "home lab" server and I'm planning on relocating the old Dell/Wyse Zx0Q to my mums as a backup server. I run about 20 different containers at the moment and run TVheadend bare metal with 3 DVB-T2 tuners. Both machine used USB3 - Sata enclosures for extra storage. Work greats. The old Dell machine even did transcoding in JellyFin for 1080p content, which was not expected given how crap the cpu is in it. Everything ran fast and stable. Check out Parky Towers for in-depth info on many different thin clients.