Why is raspberry pi so popular for cheap home servers? Wouldn't

>>59651835
Why did you put that black thing over his chest?

Uncensored version please.

>for a cheap x86 solution
because they aren't as cheap you retard
>ebay
lmao

because people don't expect to get sata or gbit when purchasing a <$35 "computer"

A lot of these home servers don't really need more that what the RPi offers.

If you want to go really cheap, the $5 zero can do a lot. Find an x86 based server for that price

>>59651835
Who?

>>59651883
I purchased an Intel D2500 micro ATX board for 15 AUD.

2GB DDR3 for $3 and it's been running great.

What's your excuse?

>>59651907
The pi zero isn't $5 though, it's sold out and prices are inflated, plus you need to buy all the ports for it since its got less than a macbook.

i dont need gigabit for my portfolio website and a few twitter bots.

also raspberry pi setup is easy as fuck, you can do a two minute config run on a screen then plug it headless into the router and forget about it forever

makes no sound, draws very little energy, if it breaks just put the sd card in a new one and it will resume operation as if it was the same machine

>>59651835
>RPi doesn't even have sata or Gbit lan for fucks sake.

A cheap laptop wont have Gbit lan either and the RCP of an D2550 its 47USD, a raspberry pi 3 cost 35USD.

There's also space and power usage, but the main uses of a RPI currently are light HTTP, SSH, DNS and DHCP servers.

If you want Sata and GbitLan checkout the Marvell ESPRESSOBin Board.

>>59651835
Broken x86 stuff is still way more power than a pi which is like ~1W.

>>59651920
Not everyone is a neckbeard virgin in a basement wasting his pathetic excuse for a life away at scrounging for shit on ebay, and then comparing half a decade old semen-encrusted boards to what you can get new

>>59651835
Power Draw. I bet you think a 430w PSU only draws 430w. LEL!

>>59651961
Not an argument.

>>59651961
some people actually need working and capable home servers, not the piece of shit that the pi is

>>59651979
Then what those people need is an actual server instead of what is commonly thought of as a "home server'

>>59651979
Then they get capable home servers and pay the appropriate price for the capacity.

Those people are often not the same as mentally retarded losers who are unironically comparing second hand part prices to that of a raspberry pi.

If you can get something NEW for the price of a Pi and it performs better, let's hear it out. No? That's what I thought.

>>59651968
a 430w psu won't always draw the full power, you moron. those specs he listed draw 15-20W, so let's say a max 30-40W full system power draw from the wall. choke on your shitty pi, pls

>>59651835
>actually paying for broken electronics
wew

>>59651995
you can get something 10-100 times better than a pi for just twice the price. are you mentally retarded?

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raspberry pi is only for gay virgin neckbeard weeaboos.

>>59652004
He appears to be, look at his typing.

>>59652004
> for just twice the price
That's not the question you brain dead piece of shit. Learn to read, if you have any capacity at all.
>If you can get something NEW for the price of a Pi
Can you? No.
>b-but it can do more
Clearly that power is not necessary for all use cases.

Thanks for trying, retarded loser. Enjoy your humiliation now.

>>59651997
KEK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_Plus

>>59651937
every laptop since 2005-2006 has gigabit, you moron

>>59652017
What's the matter, is the concept of minimum price too complicated for your dozen-neuron brain?

God, the kind of retards who have the audacity to shit out their ignorance here...

>>59652044
My 2009 netbook didn't.

>>59652028
Thanks.

>>59652044
Not necessarily, they may have gigabit capable individual parts but there's bus limitations there, too.

>>59652026
everyone knows what efficiency is, you idiot
you're missing the point

>>59652058
the pi can't even deliver the 100mbps speed because the fucking lan chip is tied to the fucking usb 2.0 hub

>>59652076
This. Even a piece of shit with dedicated 100mbps lan will destroy it.

>>59652065
FYI I don't own a Pi but far superior SoC
>*Tips Fedora.

>>59652076
How does that make it not being able to deliver 100, when USB has 480?

>>59652086
>>59652076
That's probably fair, depending on your load.

>>59652090
Which? What's the price like? I could go way less powerful than a Pi too, it just hasn't been convenient.

Anyone been keeping up with Freedombox?

>>59652076
Also doesn't have access to an RTC.

>>59652092
Because it shares bandwidth with everything else that's plugged in.

On a side note, have you ever seen USB 2.0 exceed 240mb/s?
Because I haven't.

>>59651961
>>59651995
>>59652020
Why are people on /g/ so religiously opposed to the idea of buying second hand gear?

>>59652114
This.

>>59652129
And doublethink pro-used with thinkpads.

I personally just have a fetish for tiny low power boards and do embedded stuff. Also I'm not running some public facing filesystem or anything retardedly heavy.

>>59652129
>/g/ is a consumer board
>obsession with muh progress
>obsession with the latest gadgets
>also
Why are people so opposed to buying a small $35 computer that doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but does the job nicely on 2 amps and 5 volts?

>>59652156
>does the job nicely
Kek

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How much better than a raspberry pi will these be?

It's from newegg btw and only cost $10 more than the pi3 I saw on their site.

if its not enterprise grade hardware in a rack then it's not a real server

/thread

>>59652180
Better at what though? More powerful almost guaranteed.

>>59652183
Yep.

>>59652180
With a case, psu and storage it will more expensive than a raspberry but will preforme better with server tasks.

>>59652190
I want an FTP.

Fast, reliable, under a hundred dollars total. I have plenty of spare parts to use, but I want something more efficient since it'll be running 24/7

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>>59652183

>>59652227
Oh, I have an ftp server for local shit and a few friends on my pi. It is slow and without any security.
>External old HDD in an enclosure over USB2

>>59652180
>How much better than a raspberry pi will these be?

won't fit in an unsigned long long. If you can have one of those (you have the space and everything.), don't even consider an ARM dev board.

>>59652156
Is it doing the job nicely? It seems to me like people are buying these things to either do essentially nothing, or to do a job that really would benefit from better hardware.

There are specific use cases where perhaps you might need just exactly the performance that the raspberry pi provides, but I don't think that the majority of them are being used like that.

>>59652171
>Proxy.
>Torrent Client.
>Web Server.
>Tor.
>SFTP

>>59652264
Orange pi pc 2 does it slightly better for cheaper.

X86 embedded boards do it much better for only a little more.

The raspberry pi is intended to be an idiot proof way for children to learn programming on linux. It's not meant for power. Slow as shit. There are so many better single-board computer options than the raspberry pi for low power servers. The odroid c2 for instance. Personally, I just slapped debian on an old P4 I found in an electronic waste bin. I put in a bunch of hard drives I inherited from failed laptops people brought to me, I just put them into an LVM array. This is a solid server for my porn and TV shows. 1.5TB storage, all I had to buy were sata cables.

>>59652310
>go from low power more expensive machines to a motherfucking fireball P4 as a viable option

>>59652310
>The raspberry pi is intended to be an idiot proof way for children to learn programming on linux.
What the hell is idiot proof/child friendly about learning programming on a slow linux computer?

Children really shouldn't be learning programming by fucking around with linux, anyway.

>>59652310
>P4
>1.5TB storage made of old hdds

What a waste of power, you could just get a router with a USB port and SMB server that would draw a 10th of that processor alone and do the same function.

>>59652310
I'm all for re-purposing old hardware and +1 to you anon but I'm still thinking about the power bill from 24/7 usage.

>>59652347
>Children really shouldn't be learning programming by fucking around with linux, anyway.

Why not? are you too scared to break an OS? You fuck up rasbian, you just reimage the SD card and off you go again.

>>59652361
Me too.

I just used an old laptop for mine with 2 old HDDs, one in the disk drive.

750+640GB storage.

>>59652372
How is that any different from using an x86 board then?

At least three x86 board could serve other purposes when the kid gets bored of programming.

>>59652394
the x86 devboards are arbitrarily pricier.

>>59652401
>less than 50% more expensive
>more than 500% better

I'm exaggerating, but you get my point. You get a much wider variety of software and hardware to fuck around with on an x86 system. Good luck installing MenuetOS on a raspberry pi.

>>59652356
A router's usb hub is too slow for that, you stupid shit

>>59652394

The architecture is irrelevant to what i posted.
What cant you run on arm anyway? your proprietary crapware?

>>59652430
Calm down Stallboy, there's nothing wrong with propriety software.

>>59652417
True. Many anons will get an ARM board and suddenly find out they can't run....
>super popular x86 package

>>59652417
I guess the prices are coming down, they were like post $200+ when pi's came out and dominated the market.

>>59651835
But how bad is the lack of Gigabit Ethernet really? Does anyone have experience with the RPi as a media server? Can it handle 1080p stream to other devices on the local network?

>>59652449
>Can it handle 1080p stream
If it does nothing but push the video as is over the network its fine.
Any transcoding will kill a pi.

>>59652423
>Of course, MY WiFi runs at a constant 54MB a second.
>*Tips Fedora.

>>59652449
Get an orange pi pc 2 instead.
It's megabit lan, but at least it has a dedicated controller for it instead of using the USB.

>>59651835
Community is huge, that is all.

x86 is fine, but you have to factor in power and no GPIO.


I used to run my pi as a torrent box with external HDD, it worked fine for what it is. I have upgraded to a NAS so its just a paperweight until I find something else for it.

>>59652462
They do of course have the proprietary mpeg hardware blobs available for that

>>59652465

ironically, my router does have a transfer rate of about 60MB/s from its attached usb drive.

>>59652477

Transcode is a decode then re-encode

Decoding it to its own video out is fine, on the fly transcoding to another computer for example is something the pi cant do.

>>59651835
Cheap, passively cooled, you can cram it pretty much everywhere without noticing it.

>>59652529
Right but pi has that in hardware not software. It can handle it assuming ffmpeg or whatever supports the hardware.

>>59652504
Sure, but what about your (((WiFi))) connection. The part where it air-gaps from your router to said (((device)))

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>>59652547
http://www.viaembeddedstore.com/shop/boards/epia-m920/

>>59652589
>Size of a Credit Card.

>>59652589
Not cheap, not small.

>>59652598
>not cheap
How poor are you?

>>59652571
60 MB/s

>>59652627
Doesn't matter. I can get 5 Pi's or one of those

I'd rather do some dope cluster shit

>>59652627
>$300
>cheap
Nigger cheap is $50.

>>59652565
no, it doesn't have the I/O to do both.

>>59651920
>What's your excuse?
Electricity bill.

>>59652627
>USD $299.00
>Cheap
>Let me buy a cheap $299.00 loaf of bread.

>>59652627
I can literally build a desktop computer and use it as a server for less than what this shit costs.

>>59652076
Then buy odroid.

>>59652028
Very nice.

>>59652648
Probly not for a realtime HD stream, not sure what the i/o would cap it to.

>>59652649
D2500 has a TDP of 10W. theyre not that bad compared to a raspberry pi 3 which can pull 10W.

>>59652649
kill yourself

>>59652028
Does she have a name? I think she might be my sister.

>>59652717
post sister.

>>59651835
They aren't. You're better off getting an Odroid C2 or some 1GbE Allwinner board with SATA.

>>59651871

Because this is a SFW boad.

>>59652717
lol nigger xd

>>59651835

Yes, you're far better off with a D2550 for example, although you will be limited to 2 SATA ports. This will however be enough for a simple RAID-1 system.

>>59652743
Who cares? There are no mods here anyway.

>>59652764

I think you might be wrong. Luckily I see a lot of anime/shill threads deleted within an hour or so.

>>59652751
She's clearly SEA

>>59651968
Only? An i7 with 1080 wont even draw that much power unless you're over clocking.

>>59652320
>>59652356
>>59652361
it draws like 90 watts and it runs cool. nothing wrong with that.

>>59652795
>runs cool
How much wattage in the cooling alone?

>>59652805
there are 3 fans in this unit. never bothered to check how much the fans pull. they run quiet anyway.. it's a good free machine.

>>59651935
Why do you have twotter bots? Like what do you benefit of it

>>59652347
>Children really shouldn't be learning programming by fucking around with linux, anyway.
You are everything that is wrong with contemporary western attitudes to computer science. Please exit the gene pool.

>>59652805
why is everyone on this "P4s are power hungry heat elements" meme..
maybe if you're constantly running cpu intensive shit, they might draw a tad more and spin the fan up (i should max it out on the kill-a-watt and confirm full load draw). this thing is running debian, apache2, deluged, and deluge-web. that's about it. it just downloads and serves up files. simple little shitbox.

>>59652717
She's not my sister and I'm not black. Thank goodness I'm just insane
http://www.kindgirls.com/gallery/metart/noel-monique/8116/01-2016

>>59652028
Hot.

>>59652880
Historical attitudes towards computer science wouldn't place a child in front of a hacked together nightmare of an operating system such as linux.

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Stop shilling raspberry pi ffs. They're overpriced. Odroid is literally the best bang for the buck sbpc out there and is much more powerful than any rPi. The only rPi worth mentioning is rPi zero and that's only if you can get it for $8 or less, not counting peripherals.

>>59651835
I wouldn't be using a laptop server just because of the fans. RPi is silent and no moving parts. There are better passive cooled options though.

>>59652923
Well it'll run minix.

>>59652924
>more powerful
>a feature
I'll definitely go for the cheapest possible thing once I need another system for similar use cases.

>>59652932
Passive cooled laptops exist.

>>59652988
Lol orange pi zero

>>59653018
There's cheaper than that, too. <$10 for sure though.

As i see thread triggered the intel shilldrom. Fucking idiots.

>>59652156
If you don't even need a home server, that does the job nicely. You need to go back to >>>/OneDrive/

>>59651835
>Wouldn't it make sense to go for a cheap x86 solution like the D2550, J1900, or some cheap laptop with a broken screen off eBay?

The pi is still cheaper than a broken laptop, it was fun hooking it up to 80s RCA CRT's and we all like the RISC meme. It makes it easier to play with assembler without having to worry about a CISC instruction set.

>>59652988
It uses a better and more efficient CPU architecture, costs the same and draws the same amount of power. There's literally 0 arguments for getting anything raspberry in the last 2 years. And as you can see by the chart, everything is better than raspberry.

>>59653227
Yeah, but I was saying that even raspberry pi is overpowered for most home server shit. No sense going up to that weight class again now that the prices have dropped so far. I'm looking forward to something with PoE built in personally.

>>59652129
People on /g/ aren't opposed to the idea considering there has been a Thinkpad general about buying used Thinkpads forever. I picked a w541 with a haswell i7 quad for cheap and it's glorious. Bought some used workstations with haswell i7 4770's w/ 16Gb ram 1TB WD blues GT630 for 250 burger bucks a pop. Used routers are a good deal too.

>>59653238
I'd be using a rpi if I didn't have things that require horsepower like Plex etc. Pretty sure I could get away with running Nextcloud on an rpi.

>>59652129
>>59653254
Industry shills post that shit here in an attempt to shame people into driving up demand via conspicuous consumption.

>>59651968
A standard Haswell desktop mobo + 1 HDD is ~40w idle, a NUC about 8w and a rPi less then 2w

Can you use Rasp Pi for multiple purposes? I want to use it as VPN and Retropie for example, is it possible?

>>59653529
Yes, nigger

>>59653529
You can but it won't work well if you require higher bandwidth in my experience. I have multiple Asus routers n56u 66u 1900p and the 1900p barely keeps up with bandwidth using VPN. I don't break 50Mbit with the VPN on 1900p with the 1Ghz cpu. The others it was more around 20-30Mbit. I can easily get max speed on my i7 or i5 machines as an example. The encryption really bogs it down.

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>>59652028
Fuck won't load. Anon got busted. Fuck. Cam moments too late. Well can anyone just tell me her name then? I'll try to find her on my own.

>>59653576
what's with the influx of tumblr gifs lately?

>>59653593
le regeddit armie

>>59653576
Noel Monique

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>>59653593
That's just from my gif vault mate. I don't really care where they have come from. Just if they suit the situation I use them. It's almost as if people use multiple websites instead of just stagnating on each individual website.
But that's silly now isn't it anon. Like it isn't like nthis is an "inter connected-network" or internet right?
>>59653648
Also never actually posted or made an account on Reddit. So that I'm not from that.

>buying x86 unironically when you can avoid it

Lmaoing at your life.

Also enjoy your crippling erratas that Intel tried to cover up by making companies like Cisco sign ndas

>>59653665
>Noel Monique
Thank you m8. Much appreciated

>>59653667
>>59653648
Tumblr gifs are just exclusively the shittiest quality and worst encode, there's no good reason to have them for any purpose.

>>59651835

Orange pi $10, 1W idle

>>59651835
Name of grill?

Also Raspberry is popular because of it's name, not it's specs. Kinda like Apple
There are cheaper boards with same specs and boards that cost the same, but with better specs.
Odroid C2 for example

>>59653900
Well the name's only popular cause they got in there first. They got the docs and all that into their ecosystem and shit was done.

>>59653900
>>59653665

>>59653938
Thanks brah
>>59653926
True, but that doesn't mean it's the cheapest or the best.It only means it's the most popular.

>>59652627
>300 USD
>cheap
Nigga you can buy an excellent used Thinkpad for that, let alone several Pis.

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>>59651835
there are better arm-based sbc's

pic related, still pretty cheap, but it's got usb3 ports and gigabit ethernet
the ethernet is still usb3-attached, but it's on its own root hub, so it's not sharing bandwidth with the other usb ports
unlike the rpi, where it's all one usb2 root hub

>>59652051
my 2005 hp compaq does

>>59654049
Name?

>>59654075
oh my bad, it's an ODROID-XU4

>>59654075
>>59654092
its on the board though

>>59652697
And what about the ram, and the motherboard, and the storage for your os and stuff.

>>59651835
who's the girl

>No 10 bit
Its shit.

>>59654692
So you not have that stuff just laying around?

>>59651835
first tell me what the fuck is this

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>>59651835
What? Are you a jew?
Can't afford ~35 shekels?
PI:
- lower power consumption
- small/compatible (I don't want an old piece of trash lying around my home)
- enough for simple home server
- if for some reason I don't want home server anymore I can make some other neat project with PI (pirate box i.e.)

Why you even created this thread?
Felt alone and wanted some attention or someone to talk with?

Who fucking cares what people use???

>>59652310
>give kid pi
>why is this so slow i cant event open a text editor without slowing down
>this is a learning computer jimmy, you use this to become a programmer, the internet told me!
>i dont want to be a programmer daddy its horrible

How many retarded parents you think killed their childrens passions for technology

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>>59651835
Because my Orange Pi Zero was $9 and with Debian it's enough to run a VPN, Owncloud, Samba and a Seedbox,

>>59652571
why would i use wifi between my router and desktop?

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>>59656344
>2017
>using a desktop

l

>>59656244
>calls op a Jew
>"can't afford 35 shekels"
>x86 boards cost more
The fuck is wrong with you

>>59653665
>Noel Monique
only reason I came in here. thanks bruh

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I'm using a 13W at idle at wall socket old ass EEE, but I'm planning to get one of these SBC.

How do you guys connect your storage to these SBC?

>>59656456
What are you talking about, you illiterate cunt?

Found RPI for 32€

>>59656648
you plug the usb cable in the usb port

>>59656781
So you guys just use USB to SATA adapters?

What do you do when you want to connect, say, 4 disks? You buy 4 adapters?

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>>59656648
with adapter like these

>>59656794
yea, you can get the adapters by themselves for peanuts
couple them with a usb hub for more ports
you can run multiple hdd's from one power supply with splitters, just check you're not exceeding the wattage limit of the supply with too many hdd's

>>59656794
>you guys
I use a 2tb drive connected to the sbc via the only usb this unit has but of course that's just my device.

If you want more ports or SATA get a sbc with a sata connector like the orange pi plus or something.

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>>59656781
>>59656848
>>59656857
That looks like an acceptable solution, but I thought you guys used shit like pic related. They're expensive as fuck though.

>>59656880
you could use those, too
though those are more for cases where you need to conviniently swap on bare hdd's often
for a setup where everything is hidden away somewhere, might as well just go for cheaper, loose stuff

ps. if are you putting 4 hdd's in an enclosed space, make sure you put a fan in there as well, hdd's run pretty warm without at least a little airflow

>>59656656
>wasting money on rPi when there are better alternatives
That's like buying Samsung galaxy s3

>>59657391
This.

Boards like the Orange Pis have way better price/perf and aren't overpriced like the Raspis are.

>but muh support and baby tutorials
nigger they run Debian, everyone knows how to use ganoo/linux.

>>59651835
>Why is raspberry pi so popular for cheap home servers?
As you say it is cheap.

Also it does not get hot enough to need active cooling unlike other platforms that feel and sound like Saturn V clearing the tower.

Also it has a large friendly community.

>>59652924
>Highlighting VideoCore IV in red?

Why? Documentation was released ages ago.

>>59658568
It's from an online spreadsheet. Ask the author.

>using non arm

haha kys

>>59651937
I use my rpi as a controller for cannabis plant growing

>>59652076
>UK engineering
toplel

>>59652310
I use a bananapi and plug a 4tb drive into it's sata port

you're an idiot

>>59651835
>blah blah
It's fine, even 100 megabit's fine for most household server type duties.

You can stream 4k over 100 megabits.

>>59659269
>100 megabit's fine for most household server type duties

this is what pifags actually belie

>>59659269
100 mbit is fine for internet speeds, it is not fine for local network speeds.
And the speed is a lot slower when you also writes to a usb disk connected to the same hub.

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>>59658521
I have a passively cooled HTPC with Intel D2500 and HD5450.

>>59659269
100 would be fine if you could get that on a PI.

USB 2.0 usually peaks around 250mbps and that's going to be shared with the HDD you have plugged in, as well as any other peripherals.

Raspberry pi is a joke, at least orange pi pc 2 has a dedicated LAN controller for provide real 1000mbits.

>>59658866
bananna pi is not related to the raspberry pi, despite the name

>>59652310
>>59652665
>>59652736
>>59652924
>>59653900
>>59654049

E V E R Y T I M E. in one of these threads.
Odroid shills pop up like popups. Get over it, your crappy firmware, no support, no community, overpriced shit will never ever even remotely compete with rpi. Kill yourselves you fakking wankers.

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>>59659747
forgot pic
http://www.speedtest.net/result/6176676052.png

>>59659269
I had a computer @100 megabit, it was disgustingly slow if you were moving anything larger than 200MB

speak for yourself on this

>>59651871
>>59651835

nsfw original
http://i.imgur.com/YQkvjzK.jpg

>>59659785
>all those components just fucking thrown on there
I know these boards are supposed to be hidden away, but that is just ugly.

>>59659794
>overpriced shit
>anything except rPi
Hahahahahah. Fuck off britfag.

>>59652076
Wow, because that matters when you're running a home file server over 10mbps ethernet cables.

>>59659958
>cat 5 or 6
>10mbps
Yeah, no.

>>59652010
Jesus fuck, that is one of the cringiest things I've ever seen. Why are weebs allowed to live?

>>59659996
whatever it is it's shit, and it runs through the house.

>>59659789
no fucking shit
same with orangepi
dumbass

>>59659794
this
the hardware is good, anyone can throw that shit together as did orange pi and banana pi

but the only one that has 100% solid software that actually fucking works with all the hardware on the device is the raspberry pi community
followed by the bananapi community which is "ok"

the rest are fucking garbage if you want to do anything other than basic samba share shit with them which is all you faggots know how to do, probably

>>59660416
do you only buy prebuilt PC's with communities formed around specific models?

>>59660501
I own all of these devices and control everything from light sensitive penguin cameras in Antarctica to grow rooms with hundreds of plants in Oregon & Colorado. Fuck off you child

>>59651835
Honestly it's power consumption
Pi runs on like 5 watts
Show me a cheap x86 machine that does that and I'll switch

>>59660593
><unrelated statement><insult>
>calls me a child

>>59660638
>asking about pre build PC's an entirely unrelated device and subject
>crying unrelated response that's actually more related to the thread

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>>59660606
single-board, low-power x86-based computers have actually been around for quite some time
pic related, it's rated for 4.5W

>>59660677
there's really not a lot different about these vs. pc's
these aren't pc's only in the sense that they aren't "ibm pc compatible"
but they still work pretty much the same, they run common operating systems and software, and have common interfaces shared with pc's
basically only the installation procedure for OS's differ slightly, as the way they boot is different

>>59660773
>there's really not a lot different about these vs. pc's
to clarify, i'm referring only to the user/operation side
there are many technical differences which aren't really relevant to the end user

>>59660210
Confirmed for not knowing wtf you're talking about.

>>59661848
if the raspi doesn't limit it, I don't have to upgrade the raspi.
Are you stupid?

>>59661861
So just because you run a network at sub 100Mbps, suddenly means that everyone runs one like that?
No one here has said what you should buy. I only ever said that raspberry has a major disadvantage in that area compared to other boards.
Idiot

>>59662055
It means I don't, so I don't have to.
I assume many other people have old shitty infrastructure like I do, which I'm right about.
Stop contradicting yourself.

>>59662093
>I assume many other people have old shitty infrastructure like I do

On /g/ of all places.
Ok brah, whatever you say.

>>59662110
we run on thinkpads here. fuck off richfag.

>>59662118
My ThinkPad has gigabit ethernet.
poorfag

>>59662281
so does mine. the cables aren't nearly as cheap as the ends.

I've gotten enough free cables with various equipment over the years that I've not purchased an ethernet cable in over a decade.

You are just doing it wrong.

>>59662369
not everyone bothers to upgrade something that works, especially when it doesn't offer anything new that you actually need.

>>59662309
>he hasn't wired his house with surplus cat5e

>>59662385
You probably just lost or broke your cables because you are autistic.

>>59662421
it works for what I need™.
So I don't work in an area where I can get free surplus tech supplies, sue me.

>>59662444
If you don't have ethernet cables and are citing lack of cash and haven't purchased any equipment that came with ethernet cables then I think you have better things to worry about than trying to prove cables are a luxury, I would think shelter would be a luxury for you and completely believe you.

>>59662508
I bought a NAS that came with one, it's a piece of shit that throttles speeds to a couple MB/s. That's all I need, however, since I'm not pushing BD rips through the damn thing.

>>59651997
Still over 300 kWh per year. With that money you can buy 12 raspi zeroes in Germany (where electricity is over 20 cents per kWh)

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>>59651835
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It really depends on the use case.

I'm slowly automating my home. Being able to buy a few $10 RasPi 0 W units, flashing a standard image, and dropping them inside a project box along with other hardware is quick and easy.

I use a model 3 as an openVPN and mpd server.

They use very little energy while still providing satisfactory computing power. I wouldn't replace my main media server with one, though.

>>59651835
>Find free LGA 775 computer w/o HDD (offices are throwing them out all the time)
>Put in Q6600 ($15 on ebay) and HDD
>Profit

>>59663061
this