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Raspberry Pi becomes a public company (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Loved the Pi for hosting small services around the house. I've just replaced my Pi4 with a N100, 16GB, 512GB SSD mini pc which is so much faster, not to mention cheaper than a Pi5.

[–] bonnetbee@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can you compare power consumption to the Pi 4? Just an estimate, double, tripple,..

[–] fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have a dell wyse 5070 with a j4105 cpu that runs home assistant with frigate and z2m around 3-5W with a bluetooth and zigbee stick attached. If more processing is needed it will boost to 15w for example during docker container updates, but it will also perform much better in these situations than the PI does. It costed me ~85€ from a refurbish shop and even had 1 year warranty. It came with 4gb ram, 128gb ssd, power supply and case ofc. It was a no brainer at the time when just the PI4 alone was like 80€ for 4 gb ram version if you could find it in stock. And that didn't include case, power supply or sd card.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Indeed this. Plus my minipc has dual ethernet which is handy as I run Proxmox and use the second nic for migration traffic. The mini pc is way better than the Pi for my usage.

[–] Grippler@feddit.dk 2 points 5 months ago

Not sure what a pi4 uses, but my NUC (16gb ram, 1tb NVME, quad core i3 up to 2.4ghz) running my smart home (HA in a VM) and a few other small services in LXCs uses ~7W on average. Loads more compute power if I need it at half the price. Even if a pi4 draws half the power, that's only $8 saving per year.