Dell WYSE 5060 Thin Client MEMORY UPGRADE | Homelab Operations Center 

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you should put the bigger one on the bottom so that you can more easily change the smaller one later on, if you want to upgrade later on.

Great find

Awesome, I’ve got a few of these coming today and I was hoping I could increase the RAM in them. Good to see it’s possible.

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Keep it up. Diggin your vids. Try a Wyse Zx0Q. Those have 2 slots that are easier to get to. Can add a 2nd 2.5 ssd. Some rare models have an additional video card installed. And beware if you want to flash the bios. I bricked my 5060.

i have had 16gb in mine at one time. currently 8gb. also used a sata adapter an installed a 512gb ssd with X64 Win10 & added an internal wifi from a scrap laptop

these are great little machines, would love to see a video about flashing the BIOS! not too much on the interwebs about it.

These are fun.

In my 5060 I have two 8GB sticks for 16G total which is the max, it will see 16GB sticks but only as 8GB. Indeed not designed to put in the second, dimm, you have to loosen the front to wiggle it in. I am running Proxmox on it as well.

Thankyou so much for this, saved me going she hulk on it.

What is the average powerdraw of these machines with max memory?

The 5060 runs a Minecraft server amazingly!

I'm trying to run batocera on one of these,would it help if I put an 8gb ram in,some of the late 90's wont run very well

Does it have Wake on Lan and Virtualization capabilities?

What kind of Ram did you need for it. I know ever little about ram, a link to ebay or amazon would be great if you have it?

Can you do one with the 7010 zx0?

What type of ram does the wyse 5060 use? Is it DDR3?

There's no need to remove the board. The front panel pops off; at least mine did.

How many virtual machines can you run on the upgrade?

Anyone know if this cud work Dell Wyse Zx0 Z90D7 Thin Client DTS AMD G-T56N 1.65GHz ..great vid as usual I wanted this try my hand in pi hole and other home automation tasks...

The 5060s look like quite capable little computers and I got mine cheap. The 5060s are fairly powerful, passively cooled and power consumption at idle is low. There are a few things I don’t like about them. RAM upgrades are doable but unnecessarily difficult and fiddly. Worse, for anything that requires a storage upgrade the 5060 sucks. I took the motherboard of my 5060 out because I didn't realize that the back panel with the connectors can come out which gives sufficient access to the lower sodimm slot. (Correction - taking the back panel out alone will NOT allow access to the lower sodimm slot. But it makes taking the motherboard out and putting it back in much easier.) The 5060 works OK with 8GB storage as a Thin Client, fair enough. For many other applications, you have to upgrade storage - and storage upgrades suck. There is the standard SATA connector, unfortunately, the case does not allow mounting a standard 2.5” SATA SSD drive internally. This means despite the standard SATA connector, the 5060 is non-standard in relation to storage. The largest SSD’s Dell sells are 64GB, still too small for many applications. I have not tried to get a genuine 64GB Dell SSD for the 5060, but I would expect those are comparatively expensive if you can get one in the first place. You see people take the module out of 2.5” hard drives and stick them in the SATA slot. In my case, I took the module out of a 120GB APACER 2.5” drive which is so wide it clashes with the RAM shielding. This requires modding the shielding or leaving the shielding out, both not great options. Also, the SATA module sits there at an angle to the motherboard, looks like that puts tension on the board and connector, which cannot be good in the long run. I’m now thinking of a SATA extension cable but struggle to find a very short one. Coiling up half a meter of cable in the little case cannot be good for airflow. (Update: have installed an extension about 40cm long, just curled up the cables and fixed it to the bottom of the case with a tie. wrapped the SSD in insulation tape. This way the SSD sits lower than the heatsink and there seems to be no heat-related problems. From running this open, the CPU and heatsink do get so hot that you don't want to touch.) If you ask me, Dell should have gone for standard m.2 SATA storage, similar to the HP T620 thin client. RAM and Storage upgrades in HP thin clients are super easy. Dell should have a look at those.

What's bios password first??

how to increase storage space?

The cost of memory is almost as much as I paid for the unit :)