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Have you considered buying a used thin client / mini PC?
Since the Orange Pi 5 sounded interesting, I checked it out and it's rather expensive. Well at least for me.
I found it from 180 to 200 Euro for the 8GB version. An used thin client or mini PC can be bought for half the price and most of the time it comes with 256gb storage included.
The extra cost for energy should be less than what you might be paying extra for the Orange Pi plus storage.
This, was about to do this myself. ~$60-80 for a lenovo m720q on eBay with 256gb SSD, 8gb ram, 8th gen Intel i3 8100t or if you are lucky i5-8400t. Why would get anything else?
not really wireguard hits ARM CPU's hard. you can also get n95/n100 mini PC's as well for around the price of a Orange Pi 5 and use Intel's awesome encoder for jellyfin.
Are you definitely tied to the form factor? Because for $20 more you can get a much more capable mini PC.
This is the way.
Don't buy for the MINIMUM of what you need now. Give yourself some room to grow.
That thing looks sketchy as hell, title stats and picture stats don't even match.
I am using this machine right now if you have any questions I can answer for you.
On the graphic it said wifi 5 and the title said wifi 6 and the wifi and Bluetooth icons were swapped for the versions making it look sketchy, but I realized now it says wifi 5/2.4 referring to the frequency.
Out of curiosity what OS or pseudo OS are you running off of it?
I’m running Fedora CoreOS.
Right idea, but I'd suggest getting dell or lenovo mini pcs instead. Saves you a bit of cash and you can get a semi-recent (low tdp) i5 + 8gb ram + whatever ssd the seller will throw you. They run 80ish USD before tax iirc
This option didn’t work for me because I needed Alder Lake Quick Sync support.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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For Pihole or any other firewall applications two ethernet ports are nice and not many SBCs have that.
For Conduit or any other Matrix server, fast storage connection, ideally a NVMe drive is also very useful and again not many SBCs have that.
Are two ports really necessary for PiHole? I guess if you have EVERY device in your house pointed at it and you have a LOT of devices, maybe....
Not in the slightest. Even with a couple hundred devices pointed at it you're not going to exhaust a 1Gb port. It's just answering DNS queries, it's not a firewall in and of itself.
I'm currently running a PiHole, haven't found a use for a potential 2nd Ethernet port. It's not a router or firewall, both of which have value for two Ethernet ports.
To be fair, the PiHole is just doing a firewall function: DNS filtering. If you have a fully featured router/firewall like PFsense, you can do everything a PiHole does using that. So I see how one could argue that a PiHole might benefit from dual NICs, but in practice, for home users, I agree that it's not necessary.
No, not strictly necessary.