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Re:Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? by p_ing on Friday July 04, 2025 @10:07AM (#44464711)
If you want something less "risky", ASRock Industrial has mini PCs which are great. I have an AliExpress N150, fully passive which worked just fine but then I saw the shiny of the Arrow Lake-H platform. Ended up getting a NUC BOX-225H for Opnsense. Way overkill, it's great!

https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/industrial-computer-system

The Arrow Lake-H platform can have up to 28 PCIe lanes where as the N150 gets 9. Something to think about if you want dual NIC + plenty of NVMe drives.

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Re:Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? by enronmusk on Friday July 04, 2025 @10:56AM (#44465116)
That's $550 on amazon/newegg. It's not in the same price range at all.
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Re:Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? by p_ing on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:08AM (#44465214)
Oh, my bad, I don't recall mentioning price in my post. Rather I mentioned a system that has the PCIe lanes to accomidate 2.5G NICs + 4 NVMe drives without compromises.
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Re:Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? by akho on Friday July 04, 2025 @12:33PM (#44465907)
For the price, you can get four N150, with 36 lanes. It's a pointless comparison.
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Re:Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? by wokkel on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:35PM (#44467247)
Use an odroid h4: 2x2.5gbe and a 4*1 m.2 bifurcation card to get 4 nvme drives there. Performance is limited due to ethernet anyway.
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Re:Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? by moondev on Saturday July 05, 2025 @06:47AM (#44471762)
I have several asrockrack mobos and this is the first time I am hearing of asrockind, very interesting and there are a TON of different models here

Do any of these asrockind machines have a BMC?

I just got a minisforum s100, it's 4c8g n100 and POE which is pretty sweet. If only it had Intel vpro or some sort of BMC it would be perfect. I can attach a pikvm but looks like I need to do surgery on it to interface with the power switch. WakeOnLan has been really unreliable in my tests so far.

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