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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 πŸ˜„

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[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's newer hardware than what i've got, and I know ram is expensive now, but I paid ~$100 USD for my thinkcenter M800 and it has been great.

Mine did not come with SSD though, and instead had a 3TB HHD.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

the ram on ops model would be ddr4, not 5. pricing is not that bad on ddr4 if I'm not mistaken

[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 2 points 3 days ago

That's true and I hadn't considered that. I'd still say they're paying far too much.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

The price of DDR4 has tripled over the last year. It's still not as bad as DDR5 though.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

DDR4 isn't great on price either. At least not for RDIMM. Though I realize these probably use SODIMM.

[–] Eldaroth@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah looking at prices in stores in my region for ddr4 its still like a 60%+ price increase since like the beginning of November last year. Actually wanted to build my own server, but with the price increase on most of the core pc components, I guess just bad timing #fuckai