Sunday, December 17, 2023

Dell Wyse 5070 hardware upgrade

Dell Wyse 5070 is a thin client running a basic OS (ThinOS) with basically one application - an RDP client. It can do much more though - by upgrading the hardware and installing Linux. There are a few caveats though.

Memory

The manual states that 8 GB is the maximum memory capacity. I supports a lot more though. I successfully installed 16 GB of RAM. The RAM I am using is Corsair Value Select 2 x 8GB, 2133 MHz, DDR4-RAM, SO-DIMM.

Storage

The manual states that "One M.2 2260/2280 slot" is supported. However, it is not explicit about NVME SSDs not being supported. This is an issue because most SSDs sold nowadays use NVME controllers. Thus, the Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD I ordered does not work. What worked though was a Adata Ultimate SU650 - 240 GB SSD -M.2 2280 (it has two notches; the NVME SSDs seem to have one notch only).

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