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?

  •  ultraHQ   ( @ultraHQ@beehaw.org ) 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.

    •  SpacePirate   ( @SpacePirate@lemmy.ml ) English
      1•1 year ago

      What do you think of the Intel NUC 11 Essentials with Celeron M4505? It is only two cores, but is clocked faster and has way better memory performance. If you are only running homeassistant, the low core count shouldn’t be a significant hindrance.

      I also see the celeron 5105 in the Intel store on Amazon; same thing but quad core. About $200.