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Low Cost Mini PCs (lowcostminipcs.com)

submitted 2 years ago by mahin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Thought this might be helpful as a lot of these mini PCs are hitting the used market.

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For usb, make sure to get one with UASP https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/uasp-makes-raspberry-pi-4-disk-io-50-faster

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Makes sense for single drives, but if I go with USB, it'll be something like this with multiple bays, which will almost certainly support UASP. I also don't want a hardware RAID controller because I'd much rather my BTRFS filesystem handle the individual drives than rely on some controller to not corrupt my data.

The problem, however, is that a lot of these enclosures use really crappy components. Sometimes drives will drop off for no reason and the entire unit will need to be power cycled. They also tend to require a separate power supply, which is also annoying. But if there's a super high quality one for pretty cheap, the entire package (mini PC + enclosure) is probably smaller than pretty much any equivalent case. So I'm interested, I just haven't found a good fit.