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Wisest Upgrade from Raspberry Pi (artemis.camp)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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I am several months into the self-hosting journey and I feel I have outgrown my Pi 4 B 8GB. I'm only running around 3 dozen containerized services and it seems to struggle to keep up. But I'm not sure of the best bang for my buck. I'd like good, long-term performance, but I don't really have a grand lying around for a Lenovo Tiny or Dell Optiplex or ASUS NUC. I'm thinking of buying an SSD to boot from, but will this even help much? For $350-500, could I make a more cost effective homeserver upgrade?

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[–] UnPassive 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could pick up a used laptop for pretty cheap. Low TDP, leagues ahead of a Pi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a great suggestion. There's so much e-waste out there that could be more than powerful enough to be a major upgrade from a Pi. If OP has a PC built in the last 15 years it's almost certainly the cheapest (and greenest) solution.