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Looking to migrate from raspberry pi to SFF PC. What are good options in 2023? (beehaw.org)
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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?

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[–] zeroping@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

It's not the route I've gone, but lots of people seem to be having success with retired small form factor business machines. Getting a good deal on used business stuff seems to be the key, ideally locally, where they just want to get rid of it compared to ebay. A low-end Intel from 4 years ago is annoyingly good computation per watt.

Also, take your power bill and calculate the cost of a watt for a year. Remember that number for all future purchases. Where I live, it's around $1.50/watt-year. A 60-watt always-on computer gets pricy quickly.