Comment on Recommendations for cheap hardware upgrade
ordellrb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you need more ram but not a lot of CPU a used thin client can work, i use a HP t630 since 6 months now with only nextcloud and storage, has 2 ddr4 slots and 2sata m.2(not Nvme) for Expansion. Again its a 4core Pre Ryzen AMD chip so don’t expect any Wonders. www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t630/ this is a good side for this and other thin Clients.
Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
And that’s the problem right there. That’s 12w idle power. The computer is not going to idle all the time and power consumption will rise. If you are like me and live in a place with high cost of power this will add up. The raspberry pi will is at max 9w of power. That’s max. At idle it’s more likely to be around 3 but could be more if you have some usb drives plugged into it.
Maybe consider selling your pi2g and buying a pi4g or 8g.
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
If your workload doesn’t run well on a raspi you cannot use a raspi…
Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
They said they were bumping up to the ram limit on their 2gb pi. I suggested getting a pi with 4 or 8 gb of ram.