Hello everyone,
I am running some services like Jellyfin, Radarr, QBittorrent, Jellyseerr and some others on my Raspberry Pi 4. The problem is that it is already struggling to run those, since it has only 2GB of RAM. I wish it was possible to do a RAM upgrade to the Raspberry Pi but the RAM is soldered to the motherboard. I don’t want to buy another Raspberry Pi with more RAM because they are quite expensive and I don’t want to have two of them. So can you recommend something for around or under 100€?
Thanks in advance.
If you want the small footprint and power costs are a concern, look for a second hand mini computer. Dell, Lenovo, Intel nuc.
Something like this as an example.
I always thought that mini computer.were more power hungry than SBC. Am I wrong?
Yeah, they’re more power hungry, but they’re also way more performant than a pi 4.
A second-hand used laptop. Or an used Intel NUC.
I’d say it’s difficult to buy anything new for $100 that’s actually worth spending that money.
I’d recommend one if the Mini PCs like
But that’s about twice your budget with a decent amount of RAM and some storage. (And way faster than a RasPi.)
I may have purchased that exact item from Amazon a few months ago. It is 100% worth saving up for a bit to purchase something this good. Debian stable is fully supported. It’s currently just my streaming client but it’s pretty powerful and sips power compared to off lease desktops or even laptops.
An HP EliteDesk G4 mini desktop Is around that much
I don’t think modern Raspberry pi’s make much sense unless you are using GPIOs or really need the low power consumption. The 3 and the 4 were OK price wise but the pi 5 is quite close to all these N100 mini computers and they are a lot more performance and expansion compared to a raspberry pi 5 and still quite low power.
Either a Topton or similar N100 based machine or a mini PC second hand is the way to go at the ~$100 mark. The mini PC will be faster and probably more expandable and cheaper but also more power consumption.
I had the same issue as you and I bought a mini PC for under $200 and it works like a charm
