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You can probably buy a better machine for that use case [1], unless you really want a built in Blu-ray drive or lots of memory bandwidth. [1]: https://www.pcen
by mastax 8y ago
You can probably buy a better machine for that use case [1], unless you really want a built in Blu-ray drive or lots of memory bandwidth.
[1]: https://www.pcengines.ch/apu3a4.htm https://www.pcengines.ch/apu3a4.htm
- Fnoord 8y agoThat machine, while great (PC Engines, their best offer, Coreboot, good value for money), is designed to be a DIY router for running e.g. OPNSense. You're probably better off with a NUC such as a Zotac or a Chinese knock off (example [1]). Why? Because given it has more horsepower and native hardware extensions for virtualization it can run VMs more efficiently. [1] https://www.gearbest.com/mini-pc/pp_1698829.html?wid=1433363 https://www.gearbest.com/mini-pc/pp_1698829.html?wid=1433363
- mastax 8y agoYes, a NUC, a miniITX PC, a commercial NAS, etc. would work. There are a lot of good options in this space. I would note that the apu2 is more or less half of a PS4, ignoring the GPU (which probably wouldn't work that well anyway?). PS4 | apu2c4 8x 1.6GHz Jaguar | 4x 1.0 GHz Jaguar 8GB GDDR5 | 4GB DDR3-1333 SATA, USB 3.0 | mSATA, SATA, USB 2.0/3.0, SD 1G Ethernet | 3x 1G Ethernet BT 2.1, WiFi N | N/A HDMI, SPDIF | N/A