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What do you use them for? I'm one of those that have Raspberry Pi 5 mostly just for Home Assistant. It's clearly overpowered for that use case, but I wanted the

What do you use them for? I'm one of those that have Raspberry Pi 5 mostly just for Home Assistant. It's clearly overpowered for that use case, but I wanted the NVMe support. I'm not convinced by these articles -- used x86 box that maybe achieves almost the same low power draw still doesn't have any actual upsides if you don't realistically need that computing power.

stavros 2y ago
I have one where I deployed K9s so I can learn Kubernetes better, and one where I have deployed Harbormaster (http://harbormaster.readthedocs.io/ http://harbormaster.readthedocs.io/). The Harbormaster one has a bunch of stuff (Zigbee2MQTT, my smart home stuff, my apps, etc. I have a Pi 4 that has Octoprint, services on the NUC load instantly whereas Octoprint feels a bit sluggish. The NUC is an x86 (well, amd64) box, with a 10W power draw, which is great. I don't think a desktop PC will do less than 100W...
- AshamedCaptain 2y ago
  You can have full-size desktop PCs (large mobos, large GPU, multiple SSDs, fancy power supply) that idle at 20W.
  - stavros 2y ago
    Really? How? Mine is an order of magnitude more than that.
    - nottorp 2y ago
      Not sure about GPUs but I have a Ryzen 5 system under my desk which with the integrated graphics, 64 G ram and two SSDs idles at a little under 20 W. The M2 Mac Mini though idles at 12 or less...
kccqzy 2y ago
I have a home server that stores and processes all my photos, using PhotoPrism. Things like face recognition does require a bit of a compute. A NUC is perfect for this use case.
- distances 2y ago
  That's a nice use case, thanks for the tip about PhotoPrism!
  - distances 2y ago
    Just as a quick update after trying out: seems like a very nice local photo album service. The initial scan will take a long while, but looks like Pi5 is quite enough to handle the service after that completes. I will need a larger SSD for my Pi if I intend to keep all my photos in this, though.
    - kccqzy 2y ago
      I bought a 8TB SATA SSD for this. Currently it's already 15% full. The nice thing about my NUC is that it has Thunderbolt builtin so I can buy Thunderbolt drive bays.
  - selcuka 2y ago
    Also check out Immich (https://immich.app/ https://immich.app/).
- zimpenfish 2y ago
  I've got one that does PhotoPrism + other media (sabnzbd, gerbera, flexget) as a general "media storage" box, one that just runs a Minecraft server, and one that's "everything else" (currently Home Assistant, Grafana, Prometheus, my webcam bird detection stuff, NATS, etc.) Originally started with HA on a Pi 4 but it wasn't really up to it.
ww520 2y ago
I use the mini-pc for running security NVR, git servers, self hosted NextCloud, local hosted LLM models, and backup servers. After my branded security camera NVR died for the N times and the company went out of business, I got fed up and decided to run my own NVR. I got a powered switch to provide power and network connection to all the cameras via POE. Connected a mini-pc to the switch and ran Blue Iris on it to stream from all the cameras. Attached an external harddisk enclosure to use some old harddisks for storage. This ensures every piece of the system can be replaced and upgraded separately.

stavros 2y ago

I have one where I deployed K9s so I can learn Kubernetes better, and one where I have deployed Harbormaster (http://harbormaster.readthedocs.io/ http://harbormaster.readthedocs.io/). The Harbormaster one has a bunch of stuff (Zigbee2MQTT, my smart home stuff, my apps, etc. I have a Pi 4 that has Octoprint, services on the NUC load instantly whereas Octoprint feels a bit sluggish. The NUC is an x86 (well, amd64) box, with a 10W power draw, which is great. I don't think a desktop PC will do less than 100W...

AshamedCaptain 2y ago
You can have full-size desktop PCs (large mobos, large GPU, multiple SSDs, fancy power supply) that idle at 20W.
- stavros 2y ago
  Really? How? Mine is an order of magnitude more than that.
  - nottorp 2y ago
    Not sure about GPUs but I have a Ryzen 5 system under my desk which with the integrated graphics, 64 G ram and two SSDs idles at a little under 20 W. The M2 Mac Mini though idles at 12 or less...

kccqzy 2y ago

I have a home server that stores and processes all my photos, using PhotoPrism. Things like face recognition does require a bit of a compute. A NUC is perfect for this use case.

distances 2y ago
That's a nice use case, thanks for the tip about PhotoPrism!
- distances 2y ago
  Just as a quick update after trying out: seems like a very nice local photo album service. The initial scan will take a long while, but looks like Pi5 is quite enough to handle the service after that completes. I will need a larger SSD for my Pi if I intend to keep all my photos in this, though.
  - kccqzy 2y ago
    I bought a 8TB SATA SSD for this. Currently it's already 15% full. The nice thing about my NUC is that it has Thunderbolt builtin so I can buy Thunderbolt drive bays.
- selcuka 2y ago
  Also check out Immich (https://immich.app/ https://immich.app/).
zimpenfish 2y ago
I've got one that does PhotoPrism + other media (sabnzbd, gerbera, flexget) as a general "media storage" box, one that just runs a Minecraft server, and one that's "everything else" (currently Home Assistant, Grafana, Prometheus, my webcam bird detection stuff, NATS, etc.) Originally started with HA on a Pi 4 but it wasn't really up to it.

ww520 2y ago

I use the mini-pc for running security NVR, git servers, self hosted NextCloud, local hosted LLM models, and backup servers. After my branded security camera NVR died for the N times and the company went out of business, I got fed up and decided to run my own NVR. I got a powered switch to provide power and network connection to all the cameras via POE. Connected a mini-pc to the switch and ran Blue Iris on it to stream from all the cameras. Attached an external harddisk enclosure to use some old harddisks for storage. This ensures every piece of the system can be replaced and upgraded separately.