Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine?
from theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 16:47
https://sopuli.xyz/post/41470645

I am currently looking for Thin Clients on ebay to use as my main server instead of the RPi 4 with an external USB drive.

I found decent offers for:

Given the current prices of new hardware my questions are:

Things I want to run on this server:

Because I plan to mostly use podman I tried to check for virtualization and all three suppoert Intels VT-x technolgy, will that be fine for my use case?

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ryelolium@lemmy.ml on 20 Feb 16:55 next collapse

Try to get as much ram as you can within your budget.

mrnobody@reddthat.com on 20 Feb 16:55 next collapse

Immich needs RAM so opt for more RAM if possible. I’m using Yunohost on an old box and have 8GB and Immich uses about 4-5 with all advanced features off.

theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz on 20 Feb 22:03 collapse

Thanks a lot for the heads up!

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Feb 17:11 next collapse

A slower CPU sucks, but swapping sucks even more. Is the ram upgradeable? You can get 16gb ddr3 sticks of ram. Idk how much EOL/the ram pocalypse has affected their pricing though.

frongt@lemmy.zip on 20 Feb 17:50 next collapse

For ddr3 in the US it’s not terrible. The new stuff for datacenters is all ddr5, and anyone who can’t get ddr5 is settling for ddr4, so ddr3 should be relatively cheap and available.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 21:58 next collapse

Idk how much EOL/the ram pocalypse has affected their pricing though.

I get mine from Memory Stock. Great service, good prices. I’ve never had a bad experience with them.

theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz on 20 Feb 22:18 collapse

After a rather quick look it seems like the DDR3 prices are still kinda fine. I will consider that, thanks!

sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net on 20 Feb 19:51 next collapse

Always go with more ram. I can say that from experience.

I'm partial to fanless, but keep in mind my empire of dirt is almost entirely fanless so I'm just partial to it.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 20 Feb 21:04 collapse

I would go for the Wyse 5070 as a server. More RAM is good and the CPUs while somewhat slower are more power efficient.

The 4/5th gen Intel CPUs are the last gen that is really quite poor in power efficiency when mostly idling. 6/7gen made huge improvements in that regard.

Upgrading the storage should be possible quite easily.

theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz on 20 Feb 22:17 collapse

Yeah power efficency should not be undervalued! But I read that the Wyse 5070 CPUs officially only support 8GB RAM so no big upgrades possible.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 20 Feb 22:21 collapse

At some point the benefit of extra RAM isn’t there anymore compared to what the CPU can actually run. With a CPU like that 8GB is probably sufficient and 16 would be merely nice to have for some additional caching.