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Alot of us who have a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 might upgrade to the Raspberry Pi 5.

Doing so would leave us with 2 Pi's. What are some great use cases for the older Pi, that would no longer be the main machine?

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[–] SweetMylk@lemm.ee 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is a controversial thought; do you need to replace the 4?

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't speak for the OP, but in my case.... It was very much a resounding YES!!!!! If your using Pis as general home servers, like I was, you can very quickly run into resource constraints. I wound up replacing 5 Pi 4's with a pair of 4th gen Intel boxes and I'm still hit resource limitations from time to time. Though now it is more io related then ram or cpu.

[–] narshee@iusearchlinux.fyi 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You didn't blindly upgrade to the next Pi. Not upgrading or upgrading to something you know meets your demands are the right things to do. I assume upgrading to a Pi 5 is not that for most people

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In my case I need the 5 for the extra power. It will exactly meet my demands, and the 4 'only' does 90% of the time.

And if I could find something cool for the 4, I would buy the 5 immediately. But I think I need to know that I can use it for something. Otherwise I will feel bad buying the 5.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

On the other hand, they're relatively cheap and it gives you a spare to tinker with, or at least that's what I told myself last week when I ordered another Pi3 since I saw they came back in stock on Digikey after all these years.

You probably don't need pis then you need a real server