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Good mini PC for around 100€ (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My current setup consists of a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4gb RAM and a 1tb external SSD. I'm thinking of getting a used mini PC for around 100€ to replace that tho because it would give me a lot more power and especially RAM (I currently need to use an 8gb swap file). My plan so far is to get a used mini PC that's quiet, has a built-in SSD and at least 8gb of RAM (16 would be better). Because of the built-in SSD, I could also sell the external SSD and buy an 8-12tb HDD instead.

Does anyone have recommendations for what mini PC to get or things that I should look out for?

Edit: Thanks for all the help! I decided on the Firebat T8 Pro Plus with 16gb RAM and 512gb internal storage because that really seems to be perfect for my use case.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

With that budget I find it hard to imagine you could beat the Raspberry Pi, but please post what you do find!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, I found the Firebat T8 Pro Plus, which has an Intel N100, 16gb LPDDR5 RAM and a 512gb M.2 SSD. It's more than 5 times faster than the Pi, has AV1 decoding and a power draw of 27W (not TDP, this number is from independent tests). It goes for 146€ on Aliexpress. It's a little more than 100€ but for what I'm getting here, I think it's worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a little more than 100€

It's half as much again! If your budget is that flexible you really should have mentioned it in the original post so that people could give you a wider range of options.

Translate it up by a couple of orders of magnitude and you get "I want to buy a car, I have €10,000 to spend" ... "I found one for €15,000, it's a little bit more but ..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I didn't plan on paying much more than 100€ because it's replacing my Pi but the one I bought can probably replace both my Pis. I just didn't think about selling the other Pi as well before.