We’ve been using an SR670 for a while now as one of our main VSphere / ESXI hosts. Lenovo always offers free bios updates and patches which you can do easily with Lenovo BOMC. HP lock their critical updates/bios/firmware down behind support contracts - I’d say Lenovo are a good option for homelab users or those who don’t have budgets to pay for said contacts.
As far as your question, why would you upgrade to something that has the same specs, yet is in a different form factor? At most you’d get some negligible benefits such as Lenovo’s equivalent to HP ILO if that is not already included in the Thinkstation. I’d upgrade the specs with a better Lenovo server if you can afford to.
We’ve been using an SR670 for a while now as one of our main VSphere / ESXI hosts. Lenovo always offers free bios updates and patches which you can do easily with Lenovo BOMC. HP lock their critical updates/bios/firmware down behind support contracts - I’d say Lenovo are a good option for homelab users or those who don’t have budgets to pay for said contacts.
As far as your question, why would you upgrade to something that has the same specs, yet is in a different form factor? At most you’d get some negligible benefits such as Lenovo’s equivalent to HP ILO if that is not already included in the Thinkstation. I’d upgrade the specs with a better Lenovo server if you can afford to.