Hello there,
I’ve been running a little army of raspberry pi and libre computer lepotato for many years now.
Sometime died of overheating, one died because the microsd card failed so hard that some kind of electrical shock took off the whole pi.
I’m looking at this trend: replace that with a single or a 2 node cluster of mini pc.
The point is I still want to consume as less electricity as possible. So low TDP CPUs <10 to 15W is my most important criteria, then 2 disk bays (don’t care about the form factor or connector).
Reading buyers comments on Amazon indicates that cheap Chinese mini pc have their ssd dying quickly, or their motherboard, or their power supply, sometimes in months, not even a year.
Would you please recommend a low power mini pc please ? It may be Chinese but from a reputable brand (which I fail to determine).
I've got three different sff desktop units running various apps on them. If you look around you can usually find the tiny form factor business desktops from Dell, HP, and Lenovo used and a few years old for under 100 bucks a piece. The most expensive of the three I bought was a Dell with a 9600t for 90 bucks about a year and a half ago.
I looked into that, enterprise grade used mini pc would be good fit, but everything I've found has a TDP >15W, that is above my idea of a low power mini PC (as in consumming few electricity, keep the bill low...). For instance, Intel 9600T would draw at the minimum 25W and is rated for 35W.
Nah mine draw less than 10 watts at idle, unless you're constantly loading the cpu you're not going to see even 25 watts.
@M33 @evidences Ok, so it is a very good option because it is really cheap compared to new devices. Thanks :)
Yeah it definitely a good option depending on your local used market and or what you can find on eBay.