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I gave up on Raspberry Pi and have just started buying refurbished small form factor ThinkCentre models with i7 processors, adding my own SSD. They’re cheap for
by TheNewsIsHere 3y ago
I gave up on Raspberry Pi and have just started buying refurbished small form factor ThinkCentre models with i7 processors, adding my own SSD. They’re cheap for what you get, easily serviced, and _everything_ is available on x86-64 anyway. I haven’t been able to find a Raspberry Pi to purchase in years. There obviously have been, but never from a retailer I trust when I need one.
- Gud 3y agoThanks for the advice! This looks exactly like what I've been looking for as a home server. Have you by any chance tried a dual SSD installation for the RAIDZ/RAID1?
- red-iron-pine 3y agoThe Pi 2's I had were hit or miss and had hardware issues, and ended up repurposing an old laptop to fill in for it. Worked fine, and had decent luck buying older laptops off of kijiji / craigslist / fb marketplace and using those in lieu of Pi's. Outside of GPIO that's on the Pi's, the laptops are fine, and though a little more expensive they can also run more powerful VMs, have cooling, and can do x86 stuff.