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Would you recommend to use a RPi 5 or a second hand Lenovo mini pc (i3 6100t, 8gb ram) or something else?

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think they should be roughly in a similar range for selfhosting?! They're both power-efficient. And probably have enough speed for the average task. There might be a few perks with the ThinkCentre Tiny. I haven't looked it up but I think you should be able to fit an SSD and a harddrive and maybe swap the RAM if you need more. And they're sometimes on sale somewhere and should be cheaper than a RasPI 5 plus required extras.