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Homelab with M1 mac minis ? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Eznix86@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Some people uses Raspberry Pis or an old desktop computers to make a cluster.

Either You trade power for watts or you trade watts for power.

I came across Asahi Linux. I think it opens possibilities to have 600$ powerful computers running on m1 using very low power. Using it as a single instance or a cluster.

What do you think ? What is your feeling about it ? :)

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[–] bufandatl@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

You also could go the used mini PC route. HP EliteDesk 800 G3 mini for 100 bucks has a 35W CPU and uses very little power. When IDLE almost in an M1 ball park and even in Full Usage it wouldn’t exceed M1 by much. And you got x86_64 architecture which in some instances can be way more compatible with software than M1 aarch64 although it’s on a rise.