New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120

Re:New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 by poulpy123 on Thursday January 09, 2025 @07:35AM (#42644663)

I just bought one for 120€ (from AliExpress). I will use it to replace my small 2-disk NAS by adding an usb HDD dock and to host some small personal servers (for managing recipes, groceries, tools, downloads, etc, nothing fancy).

I initially considered a rpi5 + SATA HAT because I don't need much power and the N100 is definitely more power hungry than a RPi but the price tag that included 16gb ram and 512gb SSD convinced me to buy the minipc.

I also considered buying a N100 motherboard with 4-6 SATA port to not rely on a single usb port for the NAS port but it was more expensive than the PC and without RAM or hard drive

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Re:New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 by poulpy123 on Thursday January 09, 2025 @07:40AM (#42644710)

Note that I was surprised to discover it was not possible to install Linux headless easily like on the SBCs. Also I decided to try out nixos but I don't really have the time and energy to learn a new paradigm and I will probably go back to Debian or similar when I have the time

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