Hi Everyone,
Good number of Wyse 5070 with 64GB SSD.
Specifications
Make & Model - Dell Wyse 5070
Processor -PentiumSilver J5005, 1.5GHz Processor
RAM - 8GB
Storage - 64GB
Storage Type - M.2 SSD
Ports - 1x Ethernet; 3x integrated Display Port; 5 USB 3.1; 2x USB 2.0; 1 DC power In; Global Headset/Mic Audion Jack; 1 USB 3.1 Gen1(Type C); 1x COM port
Features - Wired-Ethernet (RJ-45)
Operating System - NO OS
What's in the box
Dell Wyse
Power Supply
possibly, but this is not the machine you want. m.2 sata or usb only.
Perfect for ChromeOS Flex install
Hi OP, is it possible to add more Ethernet ports so to turn this into a router/firewall?
Yeah. I grabbed one off AliExpress. The Intel one worked fine for me…
got a link?
Yeah here. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006158335096.html?spm=a2…
Works well. I also upgraded the ram to 32gb just because and grabbed a 128 ssd m2 Sata off Amazon. Cost me more than the device itself but it’s good. Running Zorin OS. Grabbed a TPLink t3u wifi stick and it works a treat also (had a spare and thought I would check it works with it).
@kfp187: The Dell part looks way more complicated than the generic realtek board I linked below
- until you notice that the two PCBs are largely unpopulated.
Perhaps the PCBs are made to do wifi and bluetooth as well, but the chips not present?
@bargaino: Wifi and Bluetooth chips are typically not included. It’s either wifi chip or Ethernet chip. I decided the additional Ethernet chip route, knock a small panel on the back, mount it in and away I went.
It’s a pc for putting in the corner attached to your network.
If you need bt or wifi grab a usb version for say home assistant… that’s the way I’d go…
do you have a link please? aliex search is hopeless.
I found this Realtek:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004166769290.html
With 100Mbps WAN, I might try USB ethernet ?
Right now, I'm using USB to LTE for OPNsense WAN at home, and works fine.
how do they pump gigabits through that ribbon cable?
@c64: Same as cat5 cable. You can get away without twisted pairs over such a short distance, I guess.
Analog bandwidth of cat5e is only 100MHz.
https://hardwaresecrets.com/how-gigabit-ethernet-works/
With an M.2 A+E socket you can add either a gigabit or a 2.5GbE port. The cards with cables and socket are readily available on ebay. Of course you've only got one M.2 A+E socket, so you can only add one extra ethernet port. So you can't have wifi too.
You could do it using the USB3 port. But you only have one of those too.
There is a version of these that you can fit a low profile PCIe card to. They are more suitable if you want some expansion capability. But they are harder to find and more expensive. They also have a more powerful CPU and a fan to keep it cool.
There is a similar thin client from HP, the T640, which has an AMD processor, and takes NVMe M.2 SSDs, and lots of USB3 ports including a couple of 10 Gb/s ones. And there's a bigger version of it, the T740, that has room for low profile PCIe card for those who want more network ports, plus a more powerful processor and a fan to keep it cool.
If you want more ports, more expansion don't buy the bottom of the range model of either the Dell Wyse 5070 or the HP T640/740. You can fit bigger SODIMMs and a bigger SSD, but that's it.
You could do it using the USB3 port. But you only have one of those too.
It has 5 x USB 3 ports .. ? (plus an internal one too I suspect).
In fact, I am not too sure if they are USB 3.0 , 3.1 or 3.2. The specs of this seller says 3.1. Dell website says 3.0 . I have a Dell datasheet that says 3.2. Maybe depends on the hardware revision.
Just a quick note. M.2 A+ E Gigabit is the intel I210AT chip, whilst the 2.5 gigabit one is the Realtek chip.
The intel chip card is a little broad, and whilst it fits in the m.2 slot - doesnt fit in the chasis.
The Realtek card being little narrow fits well.
Hey untech
Used Apple Pay for the first time and accidentally ordered with a wrong shipping address 😒
Sent an email to cancel, but want to make sure it doesn’t get missed and shipped off tomorrow.
Thanks baragaino, that'll come in handy.
I'll give untech a call this morning.
if I wanted to do nas/ Home Assistant/ and a router (pfsense etc), am I better off with 2 seperate machine, or could one do the lot?
Seperate would be best. Home assistant works best as its own OS.
Seperate for NAS and or router.
Generally don't really want to virtualize your firewall. You of course can do whatever you like though lol. One box can do everything, but you'd want a ITX or M-ATX board in a NAS chassis with an extra intel NIC card in that case.
thank you. so do you think 3 seperate machines for each function? or router on one, and NAS/ HA on the other?
I run my firewall (OPNSense) on a dedicated device (just a Beelink miniPC) then run everything else on a Proxmox server, which has a virtualised TrueNAS scale with the HDDs connected to a HBA card that is passed directly to the TrueNAS VM.
Then I have a handful of VMs for HA, Frigate (cameras), Plex, qBit (with dedicated VPN killswitch) etc
I have things on seperate VLANs and just poke holes between them as required.
I've got a few of these, esxi, one running synology as nas and another running openwrt, adguard and homeassistant.
Do you mind linking AdGuard and home assistant set up guides you used if there is any?
For AdGuard you need an OS on it. I run Zorin OS (Linux) but ububtu or Debian would work fine.
Use a program to mount the OS install onto your USB.
Make sure you have “curl” installed and run this in terminal.
First is if you need “curl”
sudo apt install lsb-release curl
curl -s -S -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/ma… | sh -s — -v
Home assistant can be installed via docker but you do lose features (refer to their website for what you lose) other wise download the os and refer to the steps about mounting the os onto your usb stick and install that way.
esxi running on the hardware, which hosts photon os (linux), which is just acting as a docker host, then running adguard in a docker container. Then home assistant as another container.
You can follow this guide to get Proxmox and HAOS installed https://www.derekseaman.com/2023/10/home-assistant-proxmox-v…
Then once you have Proxmox installed, just spin up a Debian VM and install AdGuard home on that
How did you attach several hard disks for the nas?
Heaps of USB ports and just mount in terminal I would assume.
usb, attach a external nvme case with a 4tb drive inside. I'm not running spinning disks anymore, and just use cloud for redundancy now.
Out of stock
Little unclear how many m.2 ports this has? Is there a clear breakdown somewhere if all expansions?
I got an email saying back in stock. I ordered one. I want to use it as a HA device
when do these get sent?
Came back to this bargain to see if anyone else knows. @untech any updates?
Looks like I got an order update and a tracking number.
Same, received order update and tracking number ~35 minutes ago. Looks like untech is struggling a little with the flood of orders from OzB 😅
yes. me too
got mine today. looks good.
Mine just arrived with a tiny broken piece of plastic rattling inside the PC case and Windows 11 Pro preinstalled. Ran this command in CMD prompt (with admin) and got a Windows license key.
Came with 2x4GB RAM sticks and USB C does seem to support display out.
Weird thing is the display out would fail ("No signal") when I unplug and replug the USB C cable. I have to reboot with the cable plugged in to get USB C display out working again. Will try to run a few updates to see if it can be fixed.
Installed Linux Mint and everything just works. Pretty good for a measly $64!
Also found out that the computer comes with built-in speakers, which is a rather nice surprise.
FWIW mine came with a Dell JU012 130W PSU and it's freakin HUGE! Like half the size of the Wyse.
I had planned on modifying this printable 1U Rack Mount design. Will have to see if I can make it work, or order an 65W PSU.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4769452
Upgraded the BIOS and loaded Proxmox. All good thus far.
recently recycled an iMac 5k which had the following ram which works straight up on these 5070.
HMA81GS6CJR8N - VK
8GB 1Rx8 PC4 - 2666v SA1 - 11
16GB shoes in windows 11
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any practical way of getting two drives in for raid1?