I’m getting close to my 4gb RPI 4b’s mem limit ~80% and would like to migrate from it to a low power SFF thin client. What are some good options?

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    So some questions to ask:

    1. Do you need x86, ARM, RISC-V, or MIPS?
    2. You say low power… but what are your power and cooling requirements? USB power? DC 12V? AC 120V? Fanless?
    3. What are your use cases, beyond homeassistant? (webserver, ids/pihole/vpn, kodi/plex/jellyfin, torrents, opennas)?
    4. What is your budget?

    There are a few prebuilt NUCs out there with Intel or AMD ultra low power chips, with TDPs around 25-35W, but these may be overkill, and around $600-900. Otherwise, maybe resell the 4GB for an 8GB instead?

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•1 year ago
      1. I’d lean towards x86 with ARM being a close second.
      2. Energy use isn’t much of an issue for me, I just don’t want to run something needlessly power hungry to run HASS. Passive cooling works, fan fine as well.
      3. No need for anything beyond HASS. I have an Unraid server that I host all of my other stuff on, but keep that tucked away as it’s quite large.
      4. I’d like to cap out around $150-225

      Just looking to upgrade, and as raspberry pi’s are hard to come by these days (what happened to them being more available in 2023 btw) I’m leaning towards something more SFF.