Are $20 Thin Clients from eBay Worth It? Dell Wyse 3040 & HP T520 Review
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- One of our viewers suggested two affordable thin clients available on eBay for $20 - $30: the Dell Wyse 3040 and the HP T520.
Intrigued by the suggestion, I decided to dive in and explore whether these budget-friendly devices are worth the investment. In this video, I’ll install Debian and Tails OS on both thin clients and share my findings. Are they viable options for your tech needs? Let’s find out!
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I have an old mini PC with the same atom x5-Z8350 running my octopi for my 3D printers in my shed. Was cheaper and more easily available than the pi 4 (this was before the pi 5 came out). I wholeheartedly agree these machines can be remarkably useful even if they are not suited to a desktop anymore.
great video, would love to see more linux based videos like this, specifically to compare the cheapest devices with native ethernet that you can run docker on
Dell Wyse 3040 is perfect for Pi-hole. Just make sure you get the one with at least 16GB of space.
We used to get Netbooks running Windows 10 and Atom-3745 CPU. 2 - 4GB RAM, 32GB EMMC. They were perfectly usable as field data and presentation computers, home browsing and video playback computers. The Atom-8350 were only much faster and later gen Notebooks featured them; for those who wanted a speedier machine for MS Office etc. The biggest challenge with the Dell 3040 is the lack of upgrade option for RAM (soldered 2GB) and Storage (8GB EMMC). I have a bunch of these now running Diet-PC Linux with Samba; working hard as small office File-servers over Gigabit LAN. The front USB-3 Port is connected to the main 4TB External USB HDD and one of the rear USB-2 Port is connected to a Backup USB HDD. I also tried software Linux RAID-0 array using the rear two USB-2 ports and it worked perfectly.
Look for Dell, HP and Lenovo USFF models. The ones with a CPU up to 6th gen are very cheap and usually come with 8GB of RAM and 240GB SSD minimum.
E.g. ThinkCentre tiny, Optiplex Micro.
WYSE 5070 extended for $60 is much more flexible and upgradeable option. PCIe slot, DDR4, M.2, Intel Silver CPU.
I use 5070 non-extended for basic servers. They take 16x2 ram (if you want to. 8gb is enough to serve up what that cpu can handle) and full 2280 M.2 SATA (no nvme wired to M.2 port sadly). You can still get them cheap so a full upgraded build is often as much as a new raspi+case+psu etc.
I recommend hp t640. Amd ryzen embededd r1505g. 16gb ram 256gb ssd
These would make a good interface to something like Kasm, they aren't really meant to run much locally, just to be an interface to remotely running software. Since in Kasm you can run web browsers and such as a non-persistent interface, this would be great to connect to that in an area that you don't want to have a full PC running.
I wonder how well Moonlight game streaming would run on these
so...like exactly what a thin client was made to do?
@@Ccoolty Yep, but not everyone knows what their purpose is intended to be
@Ccoolty In a video about thin clients it would have been nice to see some of their capabilities in acting as a thin client (ie. What limitations does the low core count and ram bring to a remoting, what hardware decoding xodec are aupported, what bitrate can be pushed throught, etc)
I have the 3040 - got it with power for £19 on eBay. I installed DietPi and run AdguardHome, Homesync and Unbound on the 8gb EMMC. It sits in a cupboard. If my main Adguard goes down due to an issue with my server it switches over to this DNS. Great little box for that but useless for much else.
Did you have gpu acceleration enabled on either of these machines?
Yes