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Ah. That was my addiction
Until I realised it collectively cost as much as a good pc, didn't have the power of it, and now I was daisy chaining a lot of power from the ups device.
A single fanless pc is the sweet spot for me.
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yeah my i5 is more than powerful to run all this stuff itself. It's in it's own room so I don't care about the fan/noise tbh.
Just really messing around with these little sbc's as a kinda hobby. The only one "required" would be the C2/C4 for driving the TV.
The only expensive SBC there is the VIM3 (~130$) but it was a gift. The rest collectively are about ~200$. I mean I don't need this many, tbh one Rock64 would run everything I need.
Kirth
re: Plex and all that... I've started using a lot of single board computers but not raspberry pi's
currently have:
ODroid C2 - Runs LibreElec for TV front end
Rock64 - Running DietPI for Pi-Hole
Rock64 - nothing atm, as I'm messing around with Arch Linux on it. Was VPN headend, since it has hardware encryption. Might convert to Android 9, as Netflix app on TV is buggy as hell
VIM3 - New, going to be running download setup. Has npu (Neural Processing Unit) so might get repurposed for learning about AI and the like
ZeroPi - New, going to be running Pi-Hole (not Raspberry Pi Zero, this thing is TINY and has ethernet) .. down side, coming from China with 5 week shipping time :(
Odroid C4 - Just ordered (released yesterday, coming from korea), to replace C2 as I want HDR etc...
Synology DS111 - legacy but still serving up files since I bought it new (1 drive)
i5 with multiple drives - OpenMediaVault server ... over kill since all it does is share folders.
If you don't need transcoding, I'd strong suggest SBC's rather than a nuc. Far less energy usage for one thing, and dirt cheap for another