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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There are also a lot of mini PCs that are comparable in price to a Raspberry Pi 5 once you factor in the cost of a case, SD card, and power supply for the Pi.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's only start up cost. What about ongoing 24/7 costs after 2 years?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The power usage will be a bit higher, but it will also have higher performance. They can have 2.5G ethernet and a couple of NVMe SSDs. The Raspberry Pi 5 only has one lane of PCIe 2.0, so it will be very bandwidth limited if you use a PCIe switch to connect a 2.5G NIC and an SSD.

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