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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC (louwrentius.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Thade780 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

No shit. I have five Lenovo Tiny M720q with the i5-9500t and 32 gigs of RAM each in a XCP-NG cluster, another one as standalone Plex server (QuickSync kept on failing under XCP) plus an old Shuttle SFF with an old (2015, I think) Atom acting as standalone.

Power consumption is pretty much minimal, with NVMEs I don't have to worry about slow data rates, nor sudden disk failures.

Most of all, all of these were cheap and easy to find. My two 8 bays Synology cost me way more, without even taking the disks in consideration.

Why would I even go for a RasPi or equivalent?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised nobody makes an affordable PCI or maybe even USB GPIO box.

To me, the RasPi served two purposes:

if you wanted GPIOs and the associated ecosystem of hats/shields/capes/straightjackets but a less barebones experience than a bare metal MCU
RiscOS, because an Archimedes is far rarer than even an Amiga or ST in the Rogue Colonies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I would add:

if you wanted direct and low-latency access to cameras (for machine vision)

[–] Thade780 1 points 3 months ago

I feel you. I have a used Moxa E2210 for IOs. I prefer not to think how much I paid for that.

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