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Honestly throw the thing in a bin and use an old mini pc instead. Lenovo thinkcentre tiny. You can pick them up on eBay for about the same as a fully equipped p
by m0xte 6y ago
Honestly throw the thing in a bin and use an old mini pc instead. Lenovo thinkcentre tiny. You can pick them up on eBay for about the same as a fully equipped pi.
Pi is 100% not suitable for 100% duty work. It’s just a toy.
- kelnos 6y agoAs someone who's been running a media server and home automation server on his Pi 24/7 for 3 years now, I beg to differ.
- m0xte 6y agoI’ve had 6 so far and all have had reliability issues or weirdness. Mostly related to SD corruption, crashing or power brown out. The power issue was not solved by running them off a proper keysight bench supply. SD cards are quite frankly horrible boot media as well.
- Symbiote 6y agoThat's 27W (idle), compared to the Pi 4's 3.4W (idle). That's an additional 145kg of CO₂ per year (2018 US average).
- m0xte 6y agoM600 fanless is around 15W full whack and 5.5W idle (measured). The CPU in it has a 4W TDP. For that you gain: Decent thermal design., A decent quality enclosure, A power supply (thinkpad brick), Two displayport holes, An SATA interface (M.2 form) for an SSD, Built in Wifi, A RAM slot you can chuck 16Gb in, 2 more USB ports. There's no competition. I paid 79 GBP each for mine (I own 3). Pi is 57 GBP bare board. Pictures. Mac mini for scale: https://imgur.com/a/jXjLusb https://imgur.com/a/jXjLusb And on CO2, perhaps you should just do without it if it's a problem.