Since rpis have been almost impossible to find, I’ve been looking around for alternatives for some local self hosted services like home assistant. A lot of boards seem to talk about GPU, GPIO pins, etc. But I really just want a single board, fanless (low power), decent CPU and RAM, ethernet.

Any recommendations?

    • orangeboats@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I use a pi for servers because of the assumption that it uses very little power to run (compared to say, an old unused laptop), is that not the case?

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but I just told you I’m running over 20 servers. Try running 20 raspberry pi’s 😀

        My resources are being shared for around 20W of power.

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        1 year ago

        Pis consume lower power, but are less powerful also. I think thr Power Consumption VS Performance is way better on Tiny/Mini/Micros. The Pi4 may idle at 3-4W where a 8th gen USSF will idle at 6-8W, but will provide more than 2x the performance IMO.

        I prefer paying almost the same price for a USSF with an i5-8500T than a Pi, even if it consume more, idle under 10W is great, and they let you go up to 65W if needed!