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Anyone have experience w/ Lenovo Thinkstation P320 and Thinkserver TS150 (or similar)? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Living_Zebra@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I'm currently running a P320 as my home server with a 1230 V6 CPU, but have been looking at upgrading to a 1245 V6 for transcoding with Intel QSV. Now I have the opportunity to buy a TS150 with a 1245 V6 for only a bit more than the CPU alone.

I was going to jump on this right away because I figured the ThinkSERVER must be better than my ThinkSTATION, but comparing specs they seem extremely similar to me.

Same chipset, similar size, similar PSU, both I think I could get 5 drives in, and both have AMT. Curious if I'm missing something here. Does anyone have any thoughts on if this would be an upgrade (other than the CPU of course) or are these 2 platforms really this similar?

For reference, I'm running Truenas Scale as a file server plus a handful of apps.

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[–] A9-EE-78-6A-C8-9F@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I've had experience with the R620 or whatever it's called

The biggest pile of shit I've ever used. Sometimes if it shuts down there's a BIOS bug where you have to take out the CMOS battery for a few minutes for it to boot again. Otherwise it'll just boot to a black screen

The I/O on it is horrendous too

Stay so fucking far away. Stick with Dell or HP