Dell Wyse 5070 as Proxmox Node

I got one of these little thin clients on ebay last year to use as a low power home media PC, but with the low specs it would struggle to play 1080p vidoes on Youtube/Plex/Jellyfin, and even at 720p would drop frames on a regular basis. I installed Proxmox on it to see how well it would handle being a hypervisor and it performs quite nicely for VMs that don’t need much resources. I set the Adguard Home and a couple other smaller virtual machines to Boot Linux into CLI by Default and it’s been chugging along for the last year or so without any issues.

Hardware

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General

  • Costs ~$60 on Ebay + $20 for a M.2 SSD
  • 4 Core J4105 CPU @ 1.5Ghz
  • Passively Cooled, No fan at all
  • Supports up to 16GB RAM (2x8GB DDR4-2400)
  • Supports 1xSATA M.2 SSD Drive as storage
  • Runs at ~10 Watts
  • Client can be configured to “Power On” on Power Restore through BIOS Options
    • BIOS Password: Fireport
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Pictures

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Last updated on July 17, 2024. For any questions/feedback, email me at blog@zinchuk.xyz.