An n100 PC is much better than that crapberry pi
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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Certainly tempted by one, any particular ones to look for? UK here, currys out of stock on an MSI one and Amazon is full of names I have never heard of and half the time it comes with Windows pro which is just a waste of money buying with the hardware.
I got the ASRock motherboard with the n100 cpu and built a PC with it. Right now, I just have it running two 3 TB hhds in a zfs mirror and it's working nicely.
I wanted to get a raspberry pi at first but it was stupidly expensive in my country and, for what it offered compared to a normal x86 system, it was not worth it.
N100 is two years old now. If you're going to suggest a mini PC, at least suggest one with a current gen CPU.
I was thinking more about a motherboard with that cpu, but we can go with the n150 then
I am seeing N100 mini PCs for a lot less than N150s though
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If you think about it, the kubernetes nodes often are only raspberry pis specwise. 2-4 cores, 8-16gb of ram
Ain't nobody got time for that
I ran lots of containers on a Pi 4 but recently purchased two cheap Chinese mini PC's with 16GB RAM and an SSD. They're so much faster and only a bit dearer than a Pi. I run Proxmox on both.
Absolutely nothing wrong with the Pi though. The Pi 4 lives on with a USB drive attached. I have NFS configured on it to backup my Proxmox VMs to it. It also hosts all the media for Jellyfin.
I bought a decade old Z840 and it's great for VMs, Plex, Arr stack, and a few other services but it is so overkill with 2 GPUs. I think what I should've done was buy a couple of used desktops or laptops to expand the my homelab as I needed.
Raspberry Pis are way overhyped and overpriced.
Also this is totally wrong. Once you start it just keeps growing unless there is some other factor.
Youβre just in the middle of the curve still β¦
And yes, piβs are waaaaaay overpriced now. Get a used mini pc with a 6500T in it for server needs. Itβs more than enough and maxes out at 65W. Most of the time it idles near 12W.
Yes, you can optimize a lot. Especially with Linux. I did the same and even started to replace program that did too much, bloated, with my own programs. To speed up the development I did it with AI and Cursor.