GitHub - a-little-wifi/TinySecrets: Technical information about small 1L Lenovo, Dell, HP and Acer PCs
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Technical information about small 1L Lenovo, Dell, HP and Acer PCs - a-little-wifi/TinySecrets

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/19241672

I found this list recently and found it very helpful figuring out what the differences between all the Lenovo tiny PCs is.

Especially the section about available riser cards for these little guys is very interesting. Building a M920x with 4 NVMe and 10gig Ethernet is very tempting.

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    Incredibly helpful, I can’t believe how often I’m holding two datasheets next to each other to find the differences in those.

  • pezhore@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    Building a M920x with 4 NVMe and 10gig Ethernet is very tempting.

    Hey that’s almost me! My home lab is three M920q systems with 10Gb fiber for Ceph. I didn’t know you could do multiple NVMes though, right now I’m doing some janky AF USB drives.

    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Does 10G fibre generate less heat in the NIC than 10G Ethernet? I heard those are problematic in the tiny boxes.

      What kind of NIC cards do you use?

      • pezhore@infosec.pubEnglish
        6·
        5 days ago

        They’re actually about the same heat wise. I use some relative cheap NICs based on the Intel 82599 controller and 10G SFP+ modules.

        It’s not a bad setup, I wish there was a second NVMe slot in my M920q boxes, but what are you going to do?