akrot@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?English
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8 months agoThe mian issue with Mini/used PCs is the power efficiency. It’s just a waste of wattage and performanve/Watt is very bad, especially at idle.
But idle still would run much more than 15w. There a very good compilation google sheets for the most efficient X86 cpus, but once you start factoring hdds and ssds, it’s only natural to go higher (20w-30w) at least. That’s at least double than rpis