• PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I do this. Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi. When I first started doing home server stuff, I had the option between an Athlon XP and a raspberry pi and the Athlon XP delivered better performance (I tried both).

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      1 year ago

      Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi

      A PC drawing 150 watts will burn through $225+ in electricity a year. The raspberry pi maxes out at like 6 watts.

      RPi is the best performance to operating cost you are going to find if you don’t need more juice for high intensity stuff (transcoding, etc)