Eh, 12GB is plenty for me. I’m currently using ~3GB out of 16GB, so I’m nowhere close to that cap.
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Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
The ME mini features 12GB of LPDDR5-4800 memory, which means the RAM will be soldered to the mainboard and not user upgradeable.
Aaaaand I’m out.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
I mean, that’s fine if that works for you, but consider more than just your current situation. If you ever wanted to upgrade it or it ever failed sometime in the future, you’d be boned. Personally I have had RAM fail and it cost me about $8 and 10 minutes to repair, rather than several hundred dollars replacing the entire machine.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Sure. I just don’t see myself needing more than 8GB RAM, especially w/ fast NVMe drives as swap. It’s a simple NAS running Jellyfin (max 1-2 clients) and a handful of other services.
If I need more RAM, chances are I’ll also need more CPU as well, in which case a larger upgrade is in order. If I truly only need more RAM, I could pretty easily move some services to an SBC like a Raspberry Pi.
It’s certainly a bummer, but not a deal breaker. If the price is right and I can find inexpensive enough NVMe drives, I can compromise a bit on RAM.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
especially w/ fast NVMe drives as swap
These won’t be fast, as detailed in the OP:
Since Intel’s Alder Lake-N processors only have 9 PCIe lanes which have to be shared between the SSDs and other hardware, the M.2 slots include five PCIe 3.0 single-lane connections, and one PCIe 3.0 x2 connection
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Solderer ram is slightly more power efficient. And this is probably a laptop board.
That said, 12gb is slightly too low for my liking.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
That may be true but I don’t really care either way.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah that’s just so dumb. Also, i wouldn’t be comfortable with the OS on MMC storage. That’s hardly known for reliability. So close and yet so far.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
If it was cost effective maybe but I think this is a bit pricy