I've considered these, but I find that a refurb MFF PC with an 8th-10th gen i5 provides way more bang for the buck in a package that isn't much larger (typically 7in x 7in x 2in), with out of the box OS and software support.
N100 and friends is a good NAS+youtube machine. Some mini PCs allow multiple NVMe drives. For a few more bucks you can get entry-level (but much more powerful) Ryzen CPU in a similar small box
Good. All these software-only projects need to stop eating up all the pis. Especially when they buy multiple just to basically each be a docker instance. Save them for the people that need the hardware interfaces, not that those people always need a pi either. I'll see people online or otherwise using an entire pi just for acting as a Wi-Fi or uart to GPIO bridge, when a USB device would've worked dramatically better. Literally just an FTDI chip is all they need. Set it to individual IO control, use the library, be done with it. No Linux on a microsd card, no waiting for it to boot, no additional power supply, and a fraction of the price
I was looking at building a small home NAS, but after compiling the list of hardware I would need to achieve what I wanted, it was just cheaper to buy a small NAS enclosure with an Intel CPU and call it a day.
Now it's running Ubuntu, Cockpit, Podman and ZFS for the redundancy, plus some extra tweaks to make the chassis LED display the zpool and volume status from a glance.
> Someone on Hacker News or Reddit is shouting: "Just use the cloud? Nobody is capable of maintaining a Linux server."
I like to host stuff from my house, and take a sick pleasure in not caring when my self-hosted personal projects fall offline. This is the luxury of personal projects.
For something other people are paying for, I (too) would rather not have to think about tripped breakers or ISP maintenance knocking out the service.
We should start a support group. I bought 6 minisforum s100. Each one has 4 cores 8G mem and 256 GB uds.
The kicker is that they each have 2.5GbE Ethernet with POE! This allows me to power control them by power cycling the switch port.
I then have a webhook that gets hit from MAAS. They pxe and get provisioned with an os image, the same images also work on large real servers, so this is a pretty awesome mini lab for testing and tinkering.
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Now it's running Ubuntu, Cockpit, Podman and ZFS for the redundancy, plus some extra tweaks to make the chassis LED display the zpool and volume status from a glance.
I have an old AMD geode from PC Engines, and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have that problem.
I like to host stuff from my house, and take a sick pleasure in not caring when my self-hosted personal projects fall offline. This is the luxury of personal projects.
For something other people are paying for, I (too) would rather not have to think about tripped breakers or ISP maintenance knocking out the service.
The kicker is that they each have 2.5GbE Ethernet with POE! This allows me to power control them by power cycling the switch port.
I then have a webhook that gets hit from MAAS. They pxe and get provisioned with an os image, the same images also work on large real servers, so this is a pretty awesome mini lab for testing and tinkering.