For that kind of thing, you’re 100x better off getting an old enterprise uSFF workstation on the cheap. Whenever I can, I reach for a used Dell 5070 or similar

For that kind of thing, you’re 100x better off getting an old enterprise uSFF workstation on the cheap. Whenever I can, I reach for a used Dell 5070 or similar if I don’t need GPIO. They eBay for about £40-50, have real NVME, x86, and the pentium ones are pretty powerful.