Be careful, EEC RAM might stop working in a couple of years if the Prime Minister triggers Article 50 this month. :confused:

Hi guys, my order has been cancelled same as yours but has been made at least 30min before I put it on HUKD. I spoke to Ebuyer consultant to clear this up and guess what - he just hang up on the middle of conversation ! I apologise all of you who followed my Deal...

screws straight in you just need the lenovo pin adapter from ebay for £2

NCC1701's

Nice something for the aggro I ended up getting everything I wanted and think the ts150 would have limited my options in the end

The order I placed with Misco went through quidco and I have just had the cashback confirmed, £6.66 to make me feel a bit better that they took my money for 2 weeks!

Lol the one good thing out of this for me is to actually spend money to replace my gen 8 microserver couple of things to turn up next week and I have what I want for my home server.

Yeah even with the £50 cashback I think I will pass...

LOL - I just randomly decided to surf google for best prices for this and noticed that there are prices from circa £206 to £278 to £550 to, um, tens of thousands. Something very dubious going on here.

Misco have changed the price, quick.... :confused:http://www.misco.co.uk/product/2689050/Lenovo-Ts150-E3-1225V5-4C-3-3Mhz-8Gb-16Gb-2X-1T?

Well that was a cluster... Ordered with eBuyer, was cancelled and took several days to get a refund. Ordered with Misco in the meantime, which also eventually got cancelled, but the refund was much quicker.

Hope is a good thing. I heard that in a movie once. Think it was just before a dinosaur ate someone or aliens blew up NY.

Wishful thinking.

Perhaps, once the £50 off deal ends on March 31st, that they will offer this for £250 - it would be a good deal for £250. Would not pay anymore though. Come on Lenovo, give your UK customers a decent deal!

Such a shame I had a right pig moving the Dell t1600 to a new case needed to take all the sensors and the front panel with it but it's up and running with esxi with passthrough to tv and was cheap enough. Now I just need to wait for the day that these Lenovo servers do go for a good price and I will jump straight in

I got a cancellation email from Misco at the weekend. It was worth a try!

Same, I told them the service was disgusting as it took them 2 days to tell me that. Oh well we knew it would happen.

Just had a phone call from Misco, they cancelled the order due to a mis-price. Apparently I will get a refund immediately

Anyone heard anything from Misco? Really hoping they come through with this.

Same here, have heard nothing but I haven't summoned up the energy to get onto them yet. They do have form in this area however - hanging on to customers' money after a pricing error or when stock has run out seems to be part of their business strategy.

Think I'll just phone to confirm it's not coming and then open a PayPal case!

Everyone who paid with a debit or credit card can just call their banks and get a refund instantly and let the bank guys chase ebuyer or any other companies you paid to.

I've had to chase eBuyer three times now for the cancellation and refund - it's been like pulling teeth. I'm completely forgiving of the fact that this was a pricing error on the Lenovo(/distributor) side but everything after that is on eBuyer and I really hope they implement so changes as a result. (Not happy with what will now be up to 7 days waiting for the refund, although I acknowledge that I'm very lucky to be in a position to take a punt on something like this.)

I guess eBuyer got bored of sending cancellation emails out and stopped half-way through the orders as I'm still waiting. My order has a status of 'Goods Allocated' and a delivery date by Weds 22nd, with the transaction pending on my credit card. Even though it's not their mistake, it's not the best customer service.

My laptopsdirect one still says waiting for dispatch, despite them telling me already it isn't. No refund yet either.

Same message, who knows what will happen.

Sorry, sounds as if they have held it up before dispatch.

From the info in this thread it sounds as if these are all dispatched by Lenovo and/or with Lenovo having the final say on how much they can be sold for.

I have the misco one in the basket still and it shows £666 I don't think you will get it for the cheap price unless you get very lucky

Message from MIsco - thought it was cancellation. Instead:

The above products have not yet been shipped, we will keep you informed on the status of your order and would like to offer our apologies for the delay. If you do have any further questions, please contact your account manager or the inbound sales team by phone on 0800 038 8880 or via [email protected].
uk

Was supposed to be delivered tomorrow. Still hope?

Told me out of stock when I rang this morning to get my money refunded.

On the Lenovo page for "Qualifying products" for cashback, there are 3 possible TS150 codes. Can't remember which one the Ebuyer deal was but it was definitely one of them - I checked. And all are still available so making up excuses as they go along.

this is deja vu - exactly same thing as they did with the TS140

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-thinkserver-ts140-ebuyer-252-24-2557273

I told eBuyer I would like to wait until it comes in stock again, but they told me it had been discontinued. No mention of a pricing error.

yeah I'm not holding my breath as my next day delivery order done this morning still shows as open.

Yep, best of luck.

Good luck with that!

Yes they changed their website i noticed but they have stated that they will honour the old price prior to the increase on their website

given how long they're quoting to refund the money, a cynic might think if they did this to generate a temporary cash flow boost.

I wonder whether Lenovo will re-market it at £250 once the £50 cashback deal has ended on April 1st?

Surely nobody has agreed to buy it at more than twice the price? The fact is they can't get stock at that price if lenovo won't give it them, as long as they are up front and honest I'm OK with that. What is disappointing though is that some stores pretend to have live stock systems and 24 hours after everyone else pulled the plug they haven't, for a tech firm that is out of order.

Indeed, but individuals buy from the retailer, be it Ebuyer, ServersDirect or whoever, and as far as the buyer is concerned Lenovo is nothing to do with it, automatic feed or not, especially when certain sites say they guarantee stock and prices. From a customer relations perspective they should honor the price, particularly in the case where there were confirmation emails/monies taken, then argue the toss with Lenovo over who bears the cost. Unfortunately it seems some are using it as an opportunity to sell an equivalent server at a vastly higher price than the original offer or a much worse one around the same price - arguably bait and switch.

Such a shame really I won a dell t1600 e3 1270 pc this morning for £135 delivered so going to replace my gen 8 with that maybe these servers will come down in price at some point and I will be waiting

Same here. Oh well I knew I had a 99.5% chance in not getting it :smiley:

Looks like they are all catching up on the correct price now. Await my cancel email.

But at a price of £550

Have 1 on order from last night with them myself for delivery tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

update - i called misco and according to their stock from their suppliers they have an allocation of 11 of these as at 11.00 am today 16.3.17- Their telephone number is 0800 038 8880 -

i applied for next day delivery - so i am waiting if it turns up or not or they will state their suppliers system is not up to date

i had an order confirmation for the price of £250.00 however their website is now showing a £523.00 price.

Just had LatopsDirect ring me. Was a supplier pricing error and not a stock problem as cancel email stated. Refunded.

Had a cancellation from eBuyer and Laptops Direct. Response from Laptops Direct stated it was a pricing error and they cannot sell at that price.

Missed it but seems delivery from 30-3-17 on the £250 page.

I tried messaging them but get a runtime error.

Laptopsdirect link post #260 takes you to the £250 price but in your basket now shows as £630! And in stock!

Looks like says delivery from 30-3-17 on the £250 page. So probably not in stock at moment.

order placed and accepted at Misco this morning with next day delivery.

Me too, proves yet another firm lie about having a live stock system!

Laptopsdirect order cancelled email:

Thank you for your order.

We regret to inform you that part of your order is no longer available from our suppliers. Occasionally we will experience a time delay on product information, whereby a manufacturer will no longer have stock and will discontinue a product before we are able to update our systems.

Our Sales Team will be in touch shortly to discuss alternatives. Our expert team will, wherever possible, be able to offer you a similar product to your first choice.

You are under no obligation to change your order and have the option of a full refund. We do however recommend speaking to our team first as we can normally offer an alternative to meet the same criteria and needs.

Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you need any further assistance you can contact us on 0871 971 0005.

Kind Regards,

Laptops Direct
Customer Services Team

Had to contact ebuyer to get my money back. Was told that it was out of stock - of course, no email telling me that the item was out of stock or order cancelled. Had to chase them to get the money refunded.

Won't bother ordering from them again.

I will be curious though whether Lenovo do sell this for £250 once the £50 cashback deal has ended.

It isn't the resellers, it was a cockup by lenovo. They fed bad data to their resellers who use automatic feeds for the website to reflect live stock and pricing, it was lenovo who gave bad info.

This kind of thing is just too convenient. I am sure this falls into some grey area between the rules for Advertising and, well, these IT etailers seem to do this far too often.

So they just hid it rather than removing it? How incompetent! I just googled laptopsdirect TS150 and it was sat in the photos under shopping.

Given that you can't find the Laptops Direct deal either by searching for it or by looking through their listings - you can only get to it by clicking on the link above - I think this one is pretty unlikely too.

Notice the big sign at laptopsdirect when in your basket:

Your Stock and Price are Guaranteed for 13 : 51 Minutes

Lets see how good your guarantee is then!

And at Laptops Direct too.

Still showing in stock at Misco this morning so doubt they are in stock there. Just waiting for the cancellation email :disappointed:

I checked what ebuyer did to me last year when I ordered a different server from them. They basically took the money, then the item went out of stock after it had been a hotukdeal but they did not send me a cancellation email or refund my money until I had to ring them up and demand the refund.

I guess this is a great way for them to get a load of cash into their business account for a few days when they have loads of people order these items that then get cancelled?

Argh what to do if the other companies mentioned actually ship them out I will be late to the game and miss out I know I will I have also put a bid that I might win on ebay must resist missus will go mental if two pc's turn up and that much money leaves the bank

It does not make sense for other etailers to cancel orders supposedly due to this being too cheap in their eyes but for other etailers to sell it. Something is very odd here. Best of luck though.

I ordered from Insight this morning for next day delivery, I got the web acknowledgement of the order but never got a confirmation or cancellation email. The order has now also disappeared from my account. So I assume it's been cancelled but strange I never got an email from them.
Just ordered from Misco and I've received a sales order confirmation so fingers crossed. Also as I think someone mentioned earlier it looks like Laptop Direct do have stock which will be delivered from Friday.
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/lenovo-thinkserver-ts150-70lv-intel-xeon-e3-1225v5-16gb-2x1tb-dvd-rw-tower-70lv003kea/version.asp?refsource=Ldadwords&gclid=CP7H3bnN2dICFTAz0woduTkCng

update the group if they have stock meanwhile I am now looking at a 750ti and e3 1220v2 for the microserver and run a hdmi to loft unless misco comes through

ive just seen tha on their website but how accurate is it

i was going to call them in the morning to see if actually in stock or not

Thanks, worth a try...

Order cancelled by insight :disappointed: in their defence they are probably all using the same product feed from Lenovo and adding a few percent on top, so not a lot they can do if the feed price is wrong

Hi, yeah lwith the TS140 :stuck_out_tongue:

Probably cancelled next day delivery first since they could not supply.
They can hang on to your money for a week before they cancel.

My payment has been processed. My ebuyer account shows for delivery tomorrow. No other info - no info re tracking, no info re delivery firm, etc, etc. Also, my quidco has not tracked.

So I seem to be halfway between you and the others on here. I am not holding my breath.

Edit:

The processed my order for a server last year. Took my money from my paypal account and they simply cancelled the order but did not return the money for several days - and not until I rang them up and complained.

Or Misco here at £266-40 - even mentions cash back http://www.misco.co.uk/product/2689050/Lenovo-Ts150-E3-1225V5-4C-3-3Mhz-8Gb-16Gb-2X-1T:neutral_face:

Chased similar last year and they will disappoint in the end.

They processed my payment as well but good luck.

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Don't bother, they don't have any in stock despite what that says.

Sounds as if you are going to get one.

Tekshop have these for £272.88 HERE

Anyone think something else will come along soon or cashback deals be renewed I'm thinking of getting an old Dell t1600 with an e3 1270 but would prefer something newer

Ordered mine at 01:00 this morning and it's still showing as delivery for 22nd March in my account.
Payment has also been processed.
That said, still expecting a cancellation email any time now.

Oh and quidco tracked too btw.

Got my 'out of stock' email from eBuyer too. Pretty annoying as I already ordered a graphics card elsewhere to put in it.

Not your fault. Thanks for posting.

Well they took 3 months to cancel my TS140 order and that was only after I queried it last week. I see your TS150 has been cancelled now so maybe they have learnt. TS140 still for sale? :smirk:

Thought the same thing last time when I got DOA item from them and instead of replacement - telephone number to call which no one cared to answer. Kept my broken item and strong determination not to order from them again. Until now. There must be a lesson there somewhere.

I ordered last night at 11.45pm and I'm not in receipt of no cancellation email...

hmm - eBuyer saying out of stock now for my earlier accepted order.

"We are sorry to inform you that the above item(s) are currently out of stock and are not available for dispatch.
Unfortunately we were unaware of this stock discrepancy until your order was passed to our warehouse for dispatch"

..

​My machine currently runs 2 single core ancient xeons, need a new one ASAP

Yes, I wanted to replace a Synology DS414 with something a bit speedier. Let's see if anything pops up... :neutral_face:

Ergh needed a new PC and thought that this was the way to go. going to sit and wait to see if another deal like this pops up soon.

Interestingly (not that interesting!) the 8gb/1TB has dropped to £505 today.

Wonder if these will pop up again in a few days time at 2-3 times the price? :smirk:

Just talked to ebuyer nothing they can offer me remotely close unless the half spec ts150 at £500 they said they had sent out some of them and ran out of stock. I like ebuyer but won't be dealing with them again bunch of liars

​Rubbish! Sure, in retrospect it was "too good to be real" but you posted what appeared to be credible deal, from a reputable supplier, backed by similar prices elsewhere online. You deserved the heat; eBuyer (and others) however did not deserve our money!

Don't feel bad - you posted what was a great deal and it was at least credible. Not your fault it's a misprice.

​0 most likely

I actual asked him how many went through... he had no answer on that. What a waste of time.

I remember the early days of internet sales when they had to honour the deal. I got some great bargains in those glorious days

Great customer service, that isnt it! I wonder if you hadnt put it on here whether you would have got it as if only a few sales went through perhaps stock would have gone out before they noticed the price mistake.

Cancelled too and then they tried to offer me the 4GB/Pentium model at the same price... :disappointed:

Too good to be true I guess... Anyone reccomend another PC because my computer is on its last legs.

Mine cancelled too - thanks Insight !

Hi guys, my order has been cancelled same as yours but has been made at least 30min before I put it on HUKD. I spoke to Ebuyer consultant to clear this up and guess what - he just hang up on the middle of conversation ! I apologise all of you who followed my Deal...

interesting - whats your psu?

i don't think a price like this will anywhere near happen in the next 6 months, atleast not as normal

Mine has just been canceled so they must be getting round to the orders now and sending out the cancellation emails.

What can they give me I thought about the hp gen9 g4400 but think I am going to pickup an old Dell on ebay now seen some go cheap with a e3 1225 or higher

I presume you wont be taking them up on the offer of the replacement?

Its for the best really
this was only a good offer as it came with alot of ram and hd's

Fact is this is the worst time to buy a new pc
the next 6 months amd are going to disrupt the market quite alot
and cpu specs are going to go up / drop in price by quite a bit

​Its 'out of stock' apparently​ so you didn't miss much

aaand got a email saying it's out of stock. shame really. Needed a new computer

I thought it was legit because similar prices elsewhere. Oh well, just checked my email...

Just got the infamous email for "Items Out Of Stock" from the Ebuyer Customer Support too. Pity! :disappointed:

What a waste of time!!
When I placed an order last night, they were showing 43 units in stock. Today got an email saying none available and the product discontinued.
They still have the server with half the RAM and storage listed there:
http://www.ebuyer.com/770314-lenovo-thinkserver-ts150-70lv-xeon-e3-1225v5-3-3ghz-8gb-ram-1tb-hdd-4u-70lv003hea?mkwid=s_dc&pcrid=51482426699&pkw=&pmt=&gclid=CKH4pZLm2NICFY8Q0wodkscPBg

My order with Insight hasnt been cancelled yet ! If mine comes through, I'll have a TS140 for sale as the new one will upgrade mine.
But I expect the insight order to be cancelled.

I would be happy for a lenovo ts 140 but can't even find a descent priced one second hand

I run an overclocked 4790K with a 1060 also overclocked, I don't even hit 300W.

No, "what ANOTHER massive cock up". Just like deja vu of the December 2016 cock up

I don't think it is discontinued since it has only just appeared - no UK reviews yet. Probably just an excuse to cancel this version at this price.

Hmmm how did I miss this ... unknown ... but I really dont need it as Gen8 with i3 purring along, but xeon

This was
Too Good To Be Real

Was that with the Xeon as you could also get the TS140 with a Pentium? With 16GB RAM? With 2TB hard drives? If not then it isn't really comparable.

The TS140 Xeon model with 4GB RAM was sold in the UK over two years ago for £375, but with £150 cashback and a Windows Server 2012 Essentials free, I bought that deal when posted here and sold the Windows OS for just over £100, after TopCashback as well, all in the TS140 cost me £100.

In regards to Brits paying more, whenever I look at the price of computers and components, I find that the UK price is usually the same or even less than the US price. However a lot more US retailers do some form of cashback or trade-in deal.

I would phone them as this is meant to be a discontinued product.

lads i have ordered this morning from server plus and had email from them that not in stock left but more on Friday. checked my account now and order is on Shipped . . . well not sure if serious given all had orders canceled but lets wait and see . .

As I mentioned earlier, it is worth noting that the TS140 did indeed sell for $240 last year in the US. There are several hundred very happy reviewers on Amazon.

So Lenovo do sell these boxes at these prices elsewhere in the world.

The Brits can always be charged 2 or 3 times more though.

Corrected that for you, they are shop fronts for Lenovo in this case, they hold no stock hence the crap about secondary warehouse when I was on the phone earlier. Lenovo hold the stock and control the price. All the retailers then have an automatic markup that we see on the website.

This will be the case for all the sites who suddenly had this for £250 ish hence the massive cancellation.

Sounds like a quick way for a retailer to get a free loan for a couple of days.
I can understand pricing errors, but stock management failures are unacceptable for a retailer the size of eBuyer.

Fxxxxrs just got email from Ebuyer so annoying. I guess the hunt begins for something else then.

Never - but when the smaller retailer (it was Transparent I think - who?) is not indicating cashback offer, I want to make sure before I order to avoid not getting cashback.

Soon caught on and just ordered from Insight without asking - still got cancelled.

And now call to order so pulled from another site. What a massive cock up.

My order's not showing as cancelled on Insight yet but it's a matter of time I guess... interestingly the stock has gone from 9 up to 12 in the past 30 minutes

Hi purchased on eBuyer the thinkserver through PayPal credit. Ant idea when this will be refunded and or cancelled and if you have a similar spec desktop a similar price. Thanks looking to order asap

Thats how it works, lenovo hold the stock and its advertised to the retailers. They all get a feed that has stock levels and prices in, which they all take from as needed. When a cock up happens it happens to all, as it has here. I went through the same earlier this year with the cheap RX480s, you could see who was linked to the same suppliers by their price changes.

You're one of these people who ring up etailers and warn them about possible price errors aren't you?

Seems like December 2016 when I was trawling around all the buyers still with stock of the TS140 at the deal price. But seemed then it was just one big pool they were all dipping into and no real idea of stock as one order after another got cancelled.

And I think I made the mistake of asking Lenovo if seller "XYZ" was part of the cashback deal - immediately after I got a response, seller "XYZ" had pulled the deal :disappointed: Coincidence?

My Ballicom order shows as cancelled ;(

The TS140 was sold at this price level in the US last year - there is a big thread of reviews from happy customers on Amazon.com who got it for around $250.

Just phoned to ask why the order is going backwards, the product is discontinued, some BS about secondary warehouse stock issues that I don't believe for one minute. Anyway all orders are being cancelled and funds refunded as they have authorised payment.

ffs.

Mine hasn't shown up either.

It's just been pulled from Insight too.

Thought as much oh well eBuyer will soon email me then. too good to be true as per usual.

Dear all,

Unfortunately, there has been a feed import error on our site today affecting the price and stock levels of the Lenovo ThinkServer TS150 (SKU: 70LV003KEA) on our site.

As a result we are unfortunately unable to accept and complete your order from today and have refunded you in full.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and are working to rectify the issue as soon as possible with Lenovo.

If I can be of assistance in helping out on pricing for anything else you were looking for to try to assist please feel free to get in touch.

In the meantime, if you have any questions please let me know.

Kind regards

Support Team
Email: [email protected]

Looks like they are going to be cancelled then, i'm betting Lenovo have pulled the plug if it was a misprice.

​Mine has just changed as well I ordered yesterday 8:20pm

Is the mobo a standard fitting? I'd like to move it to a different case as my full size gfx card won't fit in there

Bought one, never had a server before. Apart from centralised storage and backup what do people use these for?

My order seems to have rolled-back a step on eBuyer - was at Processing Order now back to Order Placed. Placed my order very early this morning, but looks like it wasn't early enough.

You'll be somewhere in the region of 200w without the GPU based on the specs - a GTX 1050 / 1050 ti has TDP of 75w so you'll be over the PSUs rated supply but it'd probably run OK so long as it's not being taxed 100% for significant periods.

Would the stock box pull any more than 100w from the socket, even at full load?

Think you could drop a 1050ti in with no issues, considering it draws no more than 75w at full load.

Bought! Thanks OP. I don't really need it, but it's a nice upgrade from my Synology DS414 which I can now sell. And it prompts me to get rid of my little cluster of Microservers, I have at least one of each except the Gen8. :confused:

Quidco did not track.

not sure about that, RX460 minimum recommended is 350W and I think the 1050Ti is 300W.

this box only has 250w...

i don't think the PSU is going to be enough for that, especially not enough for the manufacturer recommendation for 1050ti

Oh, on Insight you meant? I think they only accept people who claim to be a business (even self employed I believe). I could be confusing them with another site though. The cashback has no such requirement though.

Got an email saying my order is moving through their warehouse.

Thanks for info, I was halfway through insight order and stock changed from 36 to 9 so registered as small business anyway! Hope it arrives!

Transparent are out of stock now, I think theirs wasn't real time either.

I claimed before on a TS140, no business required.

With regards cashback do you have to register as a business? Just signing up to insight to purchase! Thanks in advance!

I see Insight are listed for cashback claim but not transparent-uk, any insight (sorry) into whether they would be eligible?

Still available here:
http://transparent-uk.com/lenovo-thinkserver-ts150-3-3ghz-e3-1225v5-250w-tower-4u.html
http://www.uk.insight.com/en-gb/productinfo/servers/0006602475-00000001?

Still listed at Transparent but not holding out much hope, ordered anyway but I suspect they just don't have a live stock link to the channel.

http://transparent-uk.com/lenovo-thinkserver-ts150-3-3ghz-e3-1225v5-250w-tower-4u.html

wonder if they'll be at the same price!!!???

ballicom URL has disappeared so presumably also now OOS :disappointed:

Looks like it is not a standard PSU connection but is also NOT the same as the TS140......!

Instead of the 14 pin adapter for which replacements are readily available on ebay, it seems to use a 10 pin motherboard connector.

It also has custom connectors for the SATA power as well. This is a pic of the 400w model PSU, which seems to hold true given what else I've read:



It has 1 x 10 pin output, 1 x what looks like a 6p PCIE, and 1 x 4 pin, hopefully standard 'P4' power to the motherboard.

The manual here shows a 10 pin power connector, and 3x 4 pin power connectors to the board - two of which seem to be outputs to the SATA drives.

https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkservers/ts150ughmm_en.pdf

Any more thoughts peeps? This perhaps?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122365860453

Just spoke to them, they are expecting more in on Friday

Read back through the thread a couple of people mentioned different configurations.

Scroll up or back a page for the specs link as it has been asked 3 times now :smiley:

Does anyone know how many drives can fit in this. Looking to retire my N40L and swap my 5 drives and SSD over

If you go through the cashback process, there is a list, Ballicom isn't there, but there is an option for 'Other online retailer' - Was wondering myself.

http://imgur.com/a/Hx3mf

And now Ballicom is out of stock anyway.

I've been thinking about buying a PC for my 8yo.
This might work well for this purpose, whilst simultaneously allowing me to put old HD's in and get whatever data is on them off.....
Does this support 2 * Monitors? As she's adamant that she wants to have a PC using my two spare monitors.

Went part way through the claim form to see, Ballicom are not a listed reseller but they do say to select 'Other' if not listed, so they may be accepting any reseller?

Is there a list of qualifying resellers anywhere?

Ordered from Ballicom, after sitting on the fence, thanks useful info.

Are these the same layout as the TS-140?

Doesnt look like there is too much difference between the e3-1225v5 and the e3-1226v3? Anyone got both to comment on real world performance?

​https://www.ballicom.co.uk/70lv003kea-lenovo-thinkserver-ts150-70lv.p1332448.html?ref=PLA&gclid=CjwKEAjwzKPGBRCS55Oe46q9hCkSJAAMvVuMRHSHTeL6tQ9U3cKRbucUw26nDzWrIFetdVjxdzzW7xoC_Yvw_wcB

Missed it :disappointed: Was gonna get it for ESXi.

Anyone knows if it's possible to get the RAID controller working in ESXi? Even just as JBOD.

And how about the onboard NIC?

this site has 11 in stock https://www.ballicom.co.uk/70lv003kea-lenovo-thinkserver-ts150-70lv.p1332448.html?ref=PLA&gclid=CjwKEAjwzKPGBRCS55Oe46q9hCkSJAAMvVuMRHSHTeL6tQ9U3cKRbucUw26nDzWrIFetdVjxdzzW7xoC_Yvw_wcB

Had it sitting in my basket and its still there but the product is actually now gone from their site.

Yes, but they have now pulled the product by the look of it

And they are a reseller who qualify for cashback.

Servers Plus have stock, just ordered. Cost is a couple of quid more due to carriage cost. Including next day del it comes in at £254.28

Anyone know of any stock anywhere that supports the cashback?

Great thanks for that now they are out of stock

Ahhh gutted got into work and got my card out, OOS! :disappointed:

Sorry, this product is currently out of stock

This looks like a decent price too, can we claim cashback on here? http://www.netstoredirect.com/lenovo-servers/58633-lenovo-ts150-0190940792872.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwzKPGBRCS55Oe46q9hCkSJAAMvVuMcO1Xihxieo6ZHJV5wjfPjl1Wplff18sDbgOt4GiqJhoCGiXw_wcB

My order of 25 went through ok

Glorious, thanks for that. I've got one on the way.

Damnit, knew I should have ordered before getting in the shower!

damn missed it, in stock when i started the checkout, oos 2 minutes later when i came to pay, bummer.

If I hadn't just built one from scratch this would make a very cheap/easy plex server capable of trans coding three 1080p streams at once without much issue.

So now the wait to see if it was a lenovo price glitch as they tend to control the price the sellers advertise via the reseller program.
The cancellation emails may follow :neutral_face:

Oos

​I gave it some serious consideration... although it looks like eBuyer's stock system isn't updating in real-time, so there's likely not that many left.

So for those of us wanting more RAM, I guess the options are:
1. Buy multiple units, keep the RAM and sell the rest of parts. (Would need to make sure the cashback isn't limited to one claim per person). Time consuming and annoying selling on eBay.
2. Wait for other people to buy these for selling as parts, then buy the RAM from them in a couple of weeks, assuming they offer it at a discounted price.
3. Wait 6 months and maybe RAM prices will come down (but maybe they might keep going up)?
4. Buy non ECC RAM, swap for the included RAM and sell that.

Yes, it is similar performance to a Core i5 6600K and yes, you can add a discrete graphics card for playing games.

Read through the thread for more info on adding a GPU and things to look out for.

Just to be clear. If I buy this as is and install windows 10 will it function well as a decent spec pc to run large application. Plus if I add a decent graphics card will it run some games.

thanks

tempted to get this to replace my old microserver that is very noisy these days.

For those wondering, it can take non ECC but not mixed:
https://lenovopress.com/lp0071-lenovo-thinkserver-ts150

Do you think a dedicated NVR would be easier/better/cheaper/quieter?

I think this board should accept non_ECC ram (UDIMM).

Not 100% sure that applies to this board though, i read that in the data sheet pdf, it could apply to some other boards in the product range

"Up to four 2133 MHz DDR4 ECC or non-ECC UDIMMs provide speed and capacity of up to 64 GB"

Very tempted to replace my T20, as it's just the pentium version. Shame this is DDR4 really as I have 16Gb of ECC in that!

Now the big question... would it be wrong to buy four, put all the RAM in one and strip the other three to sell off for a (hopefully cheap) 64GB RAM version?

There is no PCIe dual NIC with this AFAIK.
The Lenovo page says it is optional:
https://lenovopress.com/lp0071-lenovo-thinkserver-ts150
As the earlier photo (from lenovopress) showed:

Can anyone tell me what chipset the onboard and PCIE NICs have?

​ it should be, I am buying this to replace a e3-1220 v2 and hope to is blue iris with it, main reason is the chip supports Intel quick sync. it will also be a backup solution for my computers.

What a deal, this is an absolute steal.

Looks like you can go sli with this given changing the PSU?

Can it take Amd GPUs?

Does anyone know if you can claim cash back the same if paying on finance? Am looking for a desktop to run some memory hungry applications and this looks to tick all the boxes

I was so tempted to buy more than one..!

This really was too good a deal to pass up, even though I'd only just built my own system this past weekend! That system was intended to be 2-in-1 (ala Linus Tech Tips) for my partner and I to share in our home office for art/architectural visualisation projects, but I'd not yet got around to buying all the parts: I still needed to pick up a couple of 1TB drives for RAID 1 storage (those would come to ~£70-80 alone!) and the two GPUs (waiting/hoping for the GTX 1070s to drop to £300)... but with an extra system in the office maybe I won't bother!

I'm guessing we're going to see a lot of these parts cropping up on eBay over the coming days (just like those MX100s from Office Outlet that everyone is trying to cash-in on at the moment).

Any good as a NVR??

You must be joking the crucial ecc 16gb sticks are like £170 a pop
and the lenovo part is like £230

Gona sit on mine until price drops to £50-£70

atm it would be cheaper to get another server
keep memory
sell hd's
sell cpu
sell bare case with motherboard

are there any good deals on RAM to upgrade to 64GB?

Resistance is futile. It's also equal to the voltage V in volts (V) divided by the current I in amps (A).

Does anyone know how RAID 1 would be configured on this for mirroring the 2 drives - no doubt it would be done in the BIOS but I am wondering whether the RAID 1 would need to be initialised on blank drives first or whether you can do it post OS installation?

EDIT:

Ah, here is the TS140 PDF for RAID configuration. I suspect it will be the same for the TS150 as they use the same technology.

Basically, the RAID initialisation, as I suspected, wipes the drives.

http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/server/pdfs/tech_resources/Config_RAID_100_TS140_and_TS440.pdf

Running a TS-140 with 5 x 6TB Toshiba drives in it, booting Windows 2012R2 Essentials from SSD and with slimline DVD running off the internal USB port with a USB-SATA bridge. I have another running as a Desktop machine - both have been excellent.

Thanks OP. I have been toying with a new desktop for basic work/internet access and back-up storage so this will do the job.

Nice find OP. Ordered

I went out of bed and downstairs to order as couldn't remember my card details. Suppose I can either sell this or my older system.

Guys can you please send the links for adopters, cables and cash back claim links on this thread please, as I intend to use it as a gaming PC too by putting in a new power supply, ssd, and a graphics card also my monitor takes HDMI output And the sound system takes a digital output which is something like spdif cable.
can someone send me a few links/help on what I need to do to sort out all these issues?

Ah yes, i meant once the dekstop arrives, and i'll likely do the same :smiley:

even though its looking good as others have it for the same price
im going to wait for ebuyer to post it
then order a psu adapter and dp adapter the same day

Thankyou very much, Ill have a look at it when it comes and decide whether or not upgrade my 750Ti :smiley:

I agree the cables are better, if you can wait then as always it is cheaper from China: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391218603687

dont like them type they tend to put pressure on the port due to the extended lengh with the hdmi cable plugged into it
id rather pay £1 more and not have to worry about a damaged display port 6months down the line

​Can anyone confirm if that is same as the ops deal? I'm rubbish at comparison

This is another option, cheaper but looks like you might need a little more clearance behind the server as not on a cable, I would say add another inch for this one. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282234823615

the pictures are from a ts140 which is the same case by the looks of it
so should be fine any atx psu will work with one of these

122370163868 on ebay

That PSU Will fit inside and work with the Thinkserver ts150 70LV Definately?
If so can you link the PSU and Adaptor please it would be really helpful :smiley:

The TS140 is really quiet, better than the Microservers. The TS150 should be just as quiet I would expect.

Some people reported issues with the TS140 for audio over displayport, I believe the resolution was just to change the drivers.

​Me too. anyone?

I ordered one on amazon can't see any difference maybe I read something stupid on homeservershow that made me think that speaking about that I expect this server will have its own section soon as a lot of people will be buying it really looking forward to having the grunt I always wanted my gen 8 to have but wouldn't spend on it

Thanks I only use 1080p tv hasn't fallen off the wall in 7 years sadly

Im going to get one of these should be ok

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DP-Displayport-Male-to-HDMI-Female-Cable-Converter-Adapter-for-PC-HP-DELL-/351918100454?hash=item51eff40fe6:g:9loAAOSwImRYO19c

though if you want hdmi 2.0 (does the gpu support 4k?) this may be required
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plugable-DisplayPort-Supports-displays-3840x2160/dp/B00S0C7QO8

One more thing the hp ml9 or whatever it's called had display ports only and I think I saw you needed a different kind of display adaptor to hdmi for the sound to also work can anyone advise if that is needed on the ts 140 or can I just get a cheap adaptor off ebay my hdmi cable is over 10 metres long so just want an adaptor

Would the CPU be a decent upgrade from FX6300 for games, and a good match for a RX 480?

screws straight in you just need the lenovo pin adapter from ebay for £2

​I use a amp on my TV and found on board cards wouldn't give me bits reaming I would end up with pcm and I hate that unless on board has moved on and I can use dts etc then I won't bother putting in a card but I also will be using esxi so will give it a shot first to see if it can handle 1080p films

My TS140 is running with a 4TB and a 5TB in it. Boot drive is a 128GB SSD, probably won't support booting off a 4TB+ drive but would expect that to be the only limitation.

But will you have the psu sitting outside the case then? Replacing the psu with a standard ATX one most likely won't be possible.

if you want gfx for gaming get a 14nm part and you will be good on that 250w psu

RX 460 / GTX 1050 TI

though tbh i have two Corsair HX750 psu's going spare so i may get an atx to lenovo power adapter

For my part, I meant "media" more in the sense of "entertainment", i.e. occasional gaming and such.

why on earth would you want to put a gfx card in this to be a mediaplayer

my HD 3000 in my laptop plays everything under the sun just fine
so the HD P530 will be even better

the HD P530 plays Overwatch at 50-60fps with fsaa off at 1280x720

Indeed, but with a 250W psu your options are rather limited.

The optional 400W psu for TS150 seems to be going for well over £100 on the Bay.

cant find anything about s3 suspend to ram support anyone seen anything?

Anyone have any experience with the similar TS140 and disk capacity support? Docs say only 3TB drives supported unless using NL but wondering if someone actually had success with larger capacity? i.e.. 6TB, considering this for a NAS.

I must resist.

Gone for it. Tried to get a TS140 at a lower price (but only 4Gb/1Tb) before Christmas but each time I put in an order at a store they went out of stock. Bought a Dell T20 Xeon instead so now I will have a set to see which is best.

Is the power supply a standard ATX one, though? Replacing it could be tricky if it isn't.

Found the same model for sale at ServersPlus for £248.34 so £198.34 after cashback. Admittedly not as good as with Quidco/TCB but this doesn't always track accurately.
https://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/lenovo_tower_servers/70lv003kea

Been looking at getting a new PC for ages, so bought this as it's a lot cheaper than what I was looking at. Anyone know if you can use 'normal' DDR4 RAM? I'd like to add another stick or two if possible.

Superb thanks everyone I have ordered the adaptor just reading up on transferring VM's to a new host and figuring out how I am going to setup the storage happy it is coming with drives because I only have two 3tb drives that work but are clunky so a bit knackered and quite a few 500gb ones so 1tb drives will be nice.

I believe this is the power adapter required, it doesn't state TS140 or TS150, but other listings list the same models as this listing and the TS140 so it seems to be the same. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322228447962

When upgrading PSU you will need an adaptor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUNdqvVuwE

You can buy an adaptor for only £5.99 on popular auction site. Search: 111689057895

Amazing!

Can i use this as a normal PC if i get win 10. Seems cheap for the spec. Thanks

Thanks.Much appreciated.

Warranty wise do they normally have a sticker on the case. I want to swap the psu and stick a HD 7870 in it and hope I can pass through on esxi for watching movies on the TV but don't want to immediately do it if I then find it has a problem

I sent a message with the specs.

I think it is better than it used to be but may need (like iLo) a paid update for all the features.


It can take 4 3.5 and 1 2.5 drive. I will be doing away with the optical if it comes with one.

it seems the 16gb of ecc ram is around £160
do we loose bandwidth not being duel channel with ddr4
havnt really looked into ddr4 not having one atm

Spanking price

CPU is £225 by its self https://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-xeon-e3-1225-v5-s-1151-skylake-quad-core-33ghz-37ghz-turbo-8mb-350mhz-gpu-33x-ratio-80w-cpu-re

My Dell t20 with 4Gb was about the same price with a v3 processor and 4gb of memory

6 ports but not 6x 3.5 inch bays?

Oops, my mistake earlier.
Hadn't realised that Intel did Xeon i5s... that is, this Xeon is 4C/4T as it doesn't have HT.
It's really hard to keep track of what is and what is not disabled on Intel CPUs

What model is your server? I Might be interested

Macrium is "some cloning software" but I would take a disk image using it and if you take the 30 day trial version you can restore to new hardware where it will do it's best to remove old drivers and inject new to stop it blue screening.
You may be out of luck as windows 7 drivers are hard to find but Macriums your best bet at an easy swap.

​Thank you hope I get my other computers sold soon then missus is not happy me spending this kind of money on a server. Worked out it should be around £640 so I am very happy. only thing I don't like is no internal usb I use that for esxi but oh well if it has 6x sata ports I will use an ssd

Last check on HUKD before bed time... and yet another computer at home in couple of days. Can't wait to tell MS in the morning :wink: But what a price for the specs.

Thanks OP!

Can someone explain the cashback please do you claim when you get it or a month after like the Dell t20?

Certainly way cheaper than the sum of its parts.
Found a shot of the inside

and back

Aside from the Xeon and the ECC memory, it doesn't really look much like a server.
Certainly no proper HDD bays, just a cheap FSP power supply (well cheaper than a Delta or similar), no 2nd NIC etc.
But then again that it doesn't use a Matrox card but rather normal Intel HD P530 graphics, is expandable, has digital video out (DP which is easily converted to HDMI for those who constantly ask this on HUKD), appears to make it a good option for those who want to turn it into a desktop.
This Xeon is a little slower than the i7-6700 (non K) but only by 100Mhz base. Ironically, the Xeon E3-1225v5 lists at $213 compared to $303 which explains why Intel locked the Xeons out of desktop motherboards. Guess Intel sees desktop i7 buyers as an easy mark; or are more afraid of competition for servers.

​Thanks. ordered. currently have 2 single core xeons in my pc so a much needed upgrade.

Ah, thanks. I was hoping to just stick in my current Win 7 desktop drive, then use some cloning software to clone to one of the drives that comes with the server. Need a new plan now.

I assume the power supply / mb would have standard connectors so you could easily replace with a more powerful one so that you could stick a graphics card in there?

Yeah cheers I found the same thing. Further info pretty thin on the ground

Might go for this as a basic desktop PC. Clone my OS current drive over.

This will be able to run Photoshop and After effects fine with a GPU right?

Anybody know which enterprise drives they use?

A, B, C??? Be clear please...

Be careful, EEC RAM might stop working in a couple of years if the Prime Minister triggers Article 50 this month. :confused:

How will this run as a home pc? does it need a graphics card?

Helpful thanks :stuck_out_tongue:

​Basic home pc. Maybe some mild game as I don't get enough time with 3kids!

Looks like it has 6x sata ports

Thanks OP. ordered one any was as am looking to replace old dog!!! Dell optiplex + Intel dual core with ddr2 ram!

*EXTREME Error Correction .. welcome to 2017

Also, how do you get the cash back? is it automatic or do I need to apply for cash back?

A typo as I was rather excited at the time :smiley:

Does it have a dual nic in a pci express slot also I keep seeing it in pics

Be warned power supply is listed as 250W
Will very likely need upping a bit to support a decent graphics card

Up to 4 fixed 3.5-inch or 5 fixed 2.5-inch

Full specs http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/server/pdfs/datasheets/thinkserver_ts150_ds.pdf

I plan to shoehorn 8 in eventually as I have a raid card in my existing server.

Seems a good deal decent passmark on cpu.

A bit more expensive on ebay but still in similar price range.

never heard of EEC RAM? Better error recovery than ECC?

16gb ddr4 alone is about 150 on Scan. Tempted to upgrade my Xeon Gen 8 microserver for this

Doubt it's a mis-price, same price elsewhere

https://www.ballicom.co.uk/70lv003kea-lenovo-thinkserver-ts150-70lv.p1332448.html

http://transparent-uk.com/lenovo-thinkserver-ts150-3-3ghz-e3-1225v5-250w-tower-4u.html

http://www.uk.insight.com/en-gb/productinfo/servers/0006602475-00000001?

Good deal though

ordered also to replace an old Xeon X5460

The CPU itself is about £200 at retail, so this is just... ridiculous, if it comes through. I've ordered one for next day delivery as well.

Finally something to replace the old N54!

It is likely a price mistake, Bought it as well. Did a small price up on PCPartPicker and it came up at around £600, so expecting a cancelled email later.

thanks, been on the look out for a replacement for my under-powered N54L

Video review here of the previous model - looks the same, newer one has slightly better spec.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUNdqvVuwE

Blimey that makes a very good home ESX lab. Especially if it really has 1 x 16GB DIMM. It could use more cores but then it is very cheap.

Can't even find it on YouTube. same plan for me gen 8 sold and another computer in the front room to pay for this. hopefully I can get esxi 6.5 to pass through graphics card for tv

ecc ram?

I have a gen 8 it ended up in the loft too unpredictable with noise depending what you put in it. hopefully this will bring it back down again because I don't know how hot it will get in the loft in the summer. if this is legit then gen 8 up for sale

Obviously the CPU would be better but in terms of feature-set which would be better? HP Microserver Gen 8 with an i3/Xenon upgrade or this?

Wonder how noisy/quiet it is?

Got an email order processed and money taken.

It's a genuine price and not a mistake. They often bring out a "top seller" model at a crazy price and this is a cracking deal.

Price looks right (and good!), slightly less on servers+ but no mention of cashback there. Same difference to the 1TB

Well I ordered for next day £265 hope it's comes but bet it will get cancelled

This one has 250W PSU but on Lenovo website I found version with 400W as well. I believe that upgrade should be possible if needed.

Missprice? The 8gb/1TB version selling for £558?

literally spent the last 30 minutes looking for a Dell t20 or lenovo ts 140 or a cheap xeon cpu for my gen 8 microserver and this pops up hmm going to need to look into this now nice one

Hmm tempted.

Stick a 1050ti in one of these and you've got a little beast of a machine for under £400.