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 😄


That blue led on the Minisforum sure is bright! BTW could you share the file for the bracket of the network card? I also have an M920q with a 10GbE card (single SFP), but I still have to figure out a bracket so at the moment it’s open, just a bit of tape under the card to not short it on the ports below.
https://www.printables.com/model/413074-m720qm920p-baffle-for-cx312b-pro-connect-x-3-card
thanks