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Mainboard: Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q 10M2S09W00
CPU: AMD Pro A6-8570E R5 @ 3.0 GHz
RAM: 16 GiB (2× 8 GiB 2400 MHz DDR4 SODIMM)
Storage: 128 GB Transcend TS128GMTE110S M.2 SSD (M2)
Storage: 512 GB EMTEC X160 512GB SSD (2.5") – horribly slow, not recommended
OS: Debian 13 (Trixie)

Off-site backup server, in use since 2026. Bought the entire thing used off kleinanzeigen.

firstlight

Mainboard: Lenovo ThinkCentre M625q 10TGS04P00
CPU: AMD A9-9420 7th Gen APU @ 1.8 GHz
RAM: 8 GiB (1× 8 GiB 1866 MHz DDR4 SODIMM)
Storage: 128 GB Toshiba KBG40ZMT128G M.2 SSD (M2)
Storage: 1 TB WD Red WD10JFCX-68N6GN0 2.5" HDD (2.5")
OS: Debian 13 (Trixie)

Off-site backup server, in use since 2026. Bought the entire thing used off ebay and added a 1 TB HDD.

arclight

Mainboard: Supermicro A2SDI-8C-HLN4F
- 1× PCIe 3.0 x4
- 4× LAN (1 Gbit/s)
- 12× SATA3 (6 Gbit/s)
- 2× USB2.0 A
- 1× USB3.0 A (internal)
- IPMI (ASPEED AST2400 BMC)
CPU: Intel Atom C3758 “Denverton” @ 2.2 GHz (25 W TDP)
RAM: 64 GiB (4× 16 GiB 2400MHz DDR4 UDIMM ECC)
- Supported: 4× DDR4-2400 ECC: up to 256 GiB registered / 64 GiB unbuffered
Storage: 2× 1 TB Samsung SSD 870 Evo (RAID 1, SATA 3.3, ≈5 of 2×6 Gbit/s) for system and virtual machines
Storage: 3× 4 TB Western Digital HDD (RAID 5, SATA 3.1, ≈3 of 2×6 Gbit/s) for data (photos, music, videos)
OS: Debian 13 (Trixie)

In use since early 2018, with an HDD → SSD upgrade for the system RAID performed in 2022.

The mainboard's out of band management interface has already saved my arse several times. Apart from that, it's not the best build – the Intel Atom CPUs don't really have a stellar performance-to-watt ratio (as in, these days, you can get far better CPUs with identical or even lower idle power draw).

Ports

VGA
RJ45 Ethernet (1 Gbit/s)
RJ45 Ethernet (1 Gbit/s)
RJ45 Ethernet (1 Gbit/s)
RJ45 Ethernet (1 Gbit/s)
USB 2.0 A (480 Mbit/s)
USB 2.0 A (480 Mbit/s)
RJ45 Ethernet IPMI (1 Gbit/s)
USB 3.0 A (5 Gbit/s) internal

Attic

firstlight (first iteration)

Mainboard: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
CPU: ARM Cortex-A72 (BCM2711) @ 1.5 GHz
RAM: 2 GiB LPDDR4
Storage: 32 GiB µSDHC
Storage: 8 TB Western Digital HDD
OS: Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Off-site backup server, in use from 2020 to 2026. The root filesystem is mounted read-only, with a read-write tmpfs via overlayfs on top of it.

lastlight

Mainboard: Intel D945GCLF
CPU: Intel Atom 230 “Diamondville” @ 1.6 GHz (4 W TDP)
RAM: 1 GiB
Storage: 2× 1 TB HDD (RAID 1, SATA)
OS: Debian 9 (Stretch)

In use from 2008 to early 2018.