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Dell 7060 Micro
Intel i5 8500T 2.10Ghz
8Gb Ram
256Gb SSD
AC Wifi + Bluetooth
Previous deal: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/751847
[Refurb] Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro i5-8500T 2.1GHz 8GB 256GB Wi-Fi W11 Pro $255.20 ($248.82 eBay+) Delivered @ BNEACTTRADER eBay
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Yea no one on that page has said they actually got the deal, including the OP.
Price jacked!
The form line is strong…
I won't comment on the price. But if you want a cheap low power Jellyfin/Plex Server, the Intel 8th Gen is probably the best short of the +11th gen CPUs.
Can confirm, mine is currently set up as a Jellyfin Server.
Yeah, from memory they support VP9, HEVC, VP8, & AVC. Not sure about 10-bit/12-bit. But if you REALLY want 10/12-bit or AV1, you've got to go with newer, more expensive hardware.
@Oofy Doofy: Ah right, I also use jellyfin just never heard that acronym.
Zen 4 is a positive sign for igpus with good transcoding support being available universally on amd desktop sockets, but it will probably take a while to trickle down into older parts suitable for servers.
Why not 8th, 9th, 10th gen?
9 & 10th gen are great, but more expensive, 8th Gen is the first (so likely cheapest) option that has the most transcode ability for the cheapest prices. Next best is probably 11th gen that's got AV1 decode only (unfortunately, I think Intel will move to their ARC GPU's only having decode).
AMD might be overtaking Intel moving forwards with their IGPU.
Notwithstanding the additional cores of 8th gen CPU’s nor the official Win11 support, I didn’t think the transcoding capabilities of 8th gen were much different from 7th gen which themself were a quantum leap over 6th gen for transcoding?
With 7th gen routinely half the price of comparable 8th gen models, I think the “most transcode ability for the cheapest prices” crown is far from undisputed.
Genuinely interested to hear why my understanding of this one could be wrong…
For anyone that has/plans on purchasing this and want an additional USB Type-C 3.1 Gen 2 which does Display Output, refer to this forum post.
It's funny I read your comment back on 3/5 when you posted it and I had no idea what you were talking about or why someone would want that. Cut to a week later and I have been researching monitors, I trying to find out if I could get a USB-C display port on an Optiplex. Came back to look at this deal and see your comment which is exactly what I wanted to know!
Damnit, so-ld o ut!
Got this deal in late Jan., with upgrade to 16GB RAM also offered at the time.
Excellent machine for my needs; in-built Wifi, bluetooth and 3 x DP on the one I got all a bonus.
Any chance you have single 16GB sticks of RAM that I can buy separately to add to the refurb that I previously bought?
Newbie question, can I use my old laptop having the same sort of configurations for the purpose of running a home server (i.e. NAS/Plex server etc.)?
Yes. With the added benefit of a built-in UPS
with upgrade to 16GB RAM also offered at the time.
Any chance you have single 16GB sticks of RAM that I can buy separately to add to the refurb that I previously bought?Did you check if you got 1x16GB or 2x8GB, as the Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro only has 2x SODIMM slots.
Yes, otherwise wouldn't be asking.
I requested and got 1 x 16GB.
If I recalled correctly, users who received 1x16GB got Crucial CT16G4SFRA32A, which should pair up nicely with this from Amazon AU for $53
@RichardL: Agreed - I got that deal for a laptop that only requires DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM and it works well in that.
Given, that this Ebay seller's upgrade with past deal was ~$35 (after coupon code) for 8 to 16Gb ugrade (essentially additional 8GB) then probably going to end up cheaper for the Amazon deal you linked.
Cheers :-).
I don't think the listing is created by the seller. Better ask on eBay directly.
Note even though this model comes with an i5-8500T (not 8400) it doesn't always mean it's vPro/AMT-enabled. Need to check the serial number to tell if the firmware has AMT enabled.
Since it's win11 home it might not have vpro
Didn't thought that's one way to tell. Dell doesn't stop you from selecting OOB mgmt with Home edition of Windows, though.
Heading says Win11 Pro
Thats has been changed as it was Win11 Home before
should i upgrade my nas from 8100T to 8500T?
Doubt you'll notice much benefit is you're just serving files or content. With an older, but capable 8th gen CPU, encoding, file I/O and most other use cases will not note much, if any perceptible improvement.
What is your storage solution for a NAS with this small form factor?
3.5" drive enclosure - otherwise load up on limited NVMe / 2.5" options.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/114rxfo/new_budget_se…
Better yet - I'm going down the SFF route so I can fit a single 3.5" alongside 2.5" and NVMe. Will migrate to a drive enclosure and RAID redundancy when I no longer have room to periodically back up the 18tb Ironwolf on my 16tb NAS.
Cool, thats some good inspiration. I have a HP N40L as a fileserver that I'd like to upgrade as it's old as hell - noisy, slow to boot etc. Something a 7060 with an enclosure next to it would be nice, although the Yottamaster in that post seems expensive as hell.
@Domingo: Also running a HP Microserver N54L with 6 HDDs + boot SSD in it. Would love to DIY upgrade for cheap, but haven't found anything yet.
@korda: Boot SSD? How fancy. I'm booting off a USB stick hahaha.
I only have about 6tb of content on there after a few HDD failures so don't need as many bays as it has. Would love to add a few other features to it as well like a HomeAssistant setup, by don't trust it to manage a lot more than it currently does.
@Domingo: Indeed it is. There are cheaper (less sexy or hot-swappable) 4 and 5 bay enclosures for much less ca$h.
A 7060 with a NVMe or even SATA SSD for the boot drive will make a huge difference to the boot times and general snappiness, and the SFF Optiplex's get good reviews for lack of noise. Best part is that you can incremnentally upgrade storage, ram etc with a bit more flexibility with the SFF's rather than the micro's. It's my intent to use a host of older 2666 ram, ssd's and one large hdd, before later adding the drive enclosure and extra storage / redundancy. Best of all, the 7060 is the first Optiplex with official Win11 support, so should be future proof to some modest degree…
I have a 6 Bay DIY NAS at home.
Will probably just swap the CPU and put SSF on eBay after….
Can be done - just do your research first. The proprietry nature of Dell SFF's means there's plenty of non-standard form factors and the move is a bit more involved than a standard ATX mobo relocation…
Might bite if 16GB. Is RAM upgradable in these?
The micro form factor have a lower powered CPU right? (compared to SFF) To keep heat down?
Can purchase the 'Upgrade to 16GB RAM' option from the same seller for an additional $36 ($35.10 with eBay Plus).
With ~$100 more you can get 32GB kit (2x16GB) on Amazon, while you get to keep the 8GB for other projects.
or ~$200 for 64GB kit as well. Neat for Proxmox/ESXi box.
What's a Proxmox/ESXi box? You set up your own virtual machine? What would be the advantage of that?
Yes, RAM is upgradeable.
I have 32GB in mine. Just ordered another one :-)
It might unofficially support 64GB, not sure…
The i5-8500T is low energy, but very capable.
I'm running TrueNAS on mine with some VMs as well, and it's great!
Internally you can install one NVME and 2.5" SSD drive!
Yes, 7050 can already run 64GB unofficially, 7060 shouldn't be a problem (https://www.dell.com/community/Optiplex-Desktops/64gb-of-RAM…).
Thanks mate, good to know! Was a bit concerned as it's a Dell.
You're running TrueNAS? With what kind of storage? I hope you're not using USB drives…
USB drives work absolutely fine for NAS use 👍
Specs say it comes with Windows 11 Home not Pro
Much difference for basic NAS / home server usages?
Probably not for most. You lose access to RDP if you run headless and a few other things like domain join, but I'm not sure how many people run setups like that.
Good to know. Looking to migrate to headless in due course to save a few more watts. Cheers.
Updated.
@Calmago are you able to confirm?
YO! All Pro.
Thank you!! Title updated Sorry for the confusion everyone
I bought one from the same company and same model https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/723346
The 256GB SSD has only 4% life left and CMOS battery died in a couple of months. i5-8500T is bit slow and getting hot easily during summer, note I don't play any games at all, and I put in extra RAM.
Disappointing. What are using it for? With many home server/NAS/SOHO units happily purring along with i5-6500 or 7500's, the 8500T should be holding up, albeit, the T models are also essentially crippled to favour power consumption over processing power.
For this reason, I'm looking at a non-T SFF over a micro/mini…
Just web browsing and YouTube. When there are two many tabs opened in Firefox, CPU usage gets very high. The CPU on Optiplex 9020 one I got a few years ago seems to be better and no problem with CMOS battery.
I could be the unlucky one.
Might be worth reseating the heatsink & fan after re-applying new thermal paste. Lot's of stories online about improving the thermals and performance if old cpu+hsf's are experiencing poor performance due to thermal throttling.
Mind you, if the 9020 is a SFF rather than a micro/mini, that could also explain the improved performance if it's a non-T CPU…
I bought the same model from a slightly later deal going by the dates. Upgraded the RAM to 16GB myself, and it seems to handle most of my everyday (simple) computing okay without spinning the CPU fan up to max. But then my laptop I was using as my main device also had an 8th gen processor, so I'm used to this level of 'performance' lol.
I just checked the SSD life with CrystalDiskInfo and I'm at 99%, so maybe yours is an anomaly in that regard (maybe).
However yeah, my CMOS battery died within a month or two too. Took me a while to figure out what the cause of it was because it's been a while since I've done any real hardware stuff.
Would love to see SFF up to sale, nice replacement of 790/990, no need to get a 9020 SFF.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/265850842386?var=565880355942
7000 rather than 9000 series, but Optiplex 7050 with i5-7500 from $139 after Ebay+ discounts is a cracking price and would allow you to reuse some existing components from the 790/990 (ram, drives). I'm umming and ahhing about grabbing one or holding out for a SFF 7060…
What’s the power consumption on these like?
From memory, 10w in idle, 35w in moderate usage and 65-130w under stress testing load. Very cheap to run…
Running Proxmox on mine.
8w idle, spikes to 30-50w when downloading linux ISOs.
Is there any hacks to remove the cpu t restrictions
Like to know as well. I would avoid any t CPU.
It's very compact and won't have much cooling capacity in a case that small. Don't think you'd want to push it that far… better buying the SFF with the i5 8500 linked above from Technology Locker probably.
i strongly considered one of these mico pc but aftyer research i decided to go with the optiplex 7060 sff.
apparently these micros run very hot which can lessen lifespan of the compnents - not ideal with ex-office machines running 40hrs per week for past 4-5 years.
plus the sff have space for upgrades/mods - 3.5 + 2.5 + drive bay + m.2 + GPU etc
Ditto. With the extra processing power of non-T CPUs and ability to utilise traditional DDR over SO-DIMMS, I'd take SFF every day of the week…
We run these 24/7 at work, never seen any overheating issues.
they still run hot mate, not good for the electronics over the years
on the flipside, your works heating bill is probably reduced with these running 24/7 ;)
What do you classify as hot… mine doesn’t even crack a sweat when being used for what it was bought which is for Plex.
Did a whole day encode with x265 and the machine was running just under 80degrees.
Agree with the heating… it did warm the room up a little bit.
@jlogic: dont resolutely know mate…i just went of the advice of some internet randos who sounded like they know more than i do…… i went the sff 7060 with a key reason being that the CPU/Mobo/RAM would all run cooler than in these little hotboxes - if i got one cheap enough id probably end up drilling more holes in the lid.
as is said running hot all day in the office takes a toll on the electronics - gotta remember these things while not flogged in terms of computing power for MS word/excel/outlook, they have been powered on for around 2000 hours for each year they have been in service
@QuickToThePointless: Yeps they are powered on all day, have plenty at work.
These are T variants so run cooler.
SFF ones will have better expandability and due to bigger size better airflow.
Each to their own use case.
Do these come with an external WiFi antenna? The photo shows an antenna but the 'Whats included' doesn't mention one.
Can you put a video card in these and play games? What type of video card would fit, would the PSU support this?
No, you need a SFF or Tower variant of the 7060.
No PCIE expansion slot.
It has air con built in? That's pretty neat.
Yea, but only when you're connected to WiFi
would something like this be better to use than, say, nvidea shield for streaming on TV?
just be careful, bought last time and the case was broken in many places, the fan was completely clogged and it didn’t include the wifi module.
It does run nice as a homelab server thoughIs this expandable with a low-profile PCIe card? Looking for a cheap Pfsense machine but need more NICs.
would like to know this as well.
Nope. Go SFF.
Bought one of these to make a batocera emulation box.
Works great up to PS2 level. PS3 or higher, not enough GPU grunt.Can anyone let me know if this would be a sufficient PC for a pure streaming rig for Twitch/Youtube. Streaming x3 1080p 60fps cameras at the same time with a proper mic. Thanks in advance.
Just a heads up, I got this exact unit last time and it was missing the following:
Internal m.2 wifi card (I got a cheap USB wifi dongle instead)
Blue 2.5" HDD/SSD caddy
3rd DP extension cardAlso, mine came with slower 2133mhz RAM (most ppl got 2666mhz)
Most units came with SATA m.2 SSD, however mine came with a PCIe nvme m.2.
So, I would drop a note on your order to ensure you get all these parts!
Is this good enough to start your own home server? Mainly for home assistant and movies etc?
Yep more than adequate. Have 1 with proxmox, running vms for Plex/Home Assistant and several containers. Have a 2nd i'm running a minecraft server on, but probably didn't need it.
Thanks for the reply. Should I upgrade to 16GB ram? I might use it for browsing / YouTube etc as well.
I mean you can see how it goes first. But browsing seems to gobble up RAM.
Can anyone tell me how to mount this unit to a monitor stand
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Some decent deals starting to come out for the 8th-gen based 7060 line.
Comparable model also available in SFF rather than mini/micro version,albeit with optical drive and additional 500gb hdd of dubious value for $240.24 via www.ebay.com.au/itm/234547468805. Could be a decent option for anyone looking to house their new Ironwolf drive for non-RAID plex/NAS/home server usage.
Unfortunately, it's with the questionable seller of this previously reneged/dishonoured deal, so tread carefully: www.ozbargain.com.au/node/770280