![]() ![]() The best part is it's easier to scale to your needs. Similarly there are boards even cheaper than this passively cooled, and will pull less than 15 watts under load as measured from the wall while being in a preassembled case. This gets you built in 128 GB eMMC, dual display output, more USB 3, about the same overall CPU performance but significantly higher single core scores, an open native SATA slot, There there are plenty of mini PC options that compete at 15 watts and lower range. Like others have said, the PCs you're looking at might be mini in form factor but specced more traditional desktops. Choosing RPi, a well-known brand, is arguably much easier. For example, prior to the RPi port running Plan9 required careful hardware purchasing choices. Prior to RPi, many SBC only had GNU/Linux as an OS choice because that's what's popular. No pre-installtion of OS! (This pre-installation practice enabled Microsoft to stifle competition and hold back progress in computing for decades.) As a project creator, I can use an OS I choose from among a variety that have been ported to the RPi, including non-popular ones, and I know every RPi user can easily run it because it's been already been pre-installed on SDCard the RPi is not OS-specific. Now, maybe the setup I choose is more difficult on one OS than on another. ![]() Then I might mount external storage device if I need it, but certainly not an SDCard. For some strange reason people try to use an SDCard in r/w mode after boot, treatng it like primary storage. Ideally I prefer to boot from USB or the network, but SDCard is still better than nothing. One of the other aspects of the RPi I think deserves more credit is the ability to easily boot into a variety of OS. Too bad they've been sold out for literally years. I love the Rpi zero w 2 products for this, just enough juice to run wifi and a python loop, plus the gpio pins. I don't have anything against low-level programming but damn is it just a lot more fun to do in python. Pi's shine with their ability to run both a real/full Linux and also do gpio type stuff that otherwise is usually an arduino board. There's super cheap minipcs with "real" processors that will just destroy even an expensive ARM board. I'm pretty dismissive of ARM chips for homelab stuff at this point. * it doesn't run on an sd card that is going to fail within a year * just establishing an ssh connection doesn't take multiple seconds That's how much you'd pay for a Pi now anyway, and it comes with such great features as: I know most projects don't just run on a Pi, and that the intent is to say "you can self-host thing", but at this point if you want to run a home server sort of thing, just buy some cheap 100-200 dollar minipc thing. "Just works".Īlso, unrelated, I just decided I don't like the sentiment of "PiMyProjectName" branding. I use the docker container, and it's great. ![]()
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