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Looking to migrate from raspberry pi to SFF PC. What are good options in 2023? (beehaw.org)

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I'm getting close to my 4gb RPI 4b's mem limit ~80% and would like to migrate from it to a low power SFF thin client. What are some good options?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you have a college or university near you, search online to see if they have a property disposition department.

I just got an HP Z2 SFF from my local university for $182. It has a Core i7-8700, 16 GB of RAM, and a 512GB NVME SSD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nice! Ill give this a shot, as I have something like 5 unis near me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

TL;DR: do you actually need to change?

Some applications (ie databases) will keep as much data in RAM as they can, just for speed...

So, have you got to 80% gradually as you've been adding functionality, or has it always been there?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I run proxmox so I have a VM dedicate to HA OS with frequent backups. This allows me to also run a number of other things without worrying about inadvertently messing up my HA install

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Same here, running on a HP mini pc I bought from ebay.