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Personally, I thought the NUC style boxes were really expensive. I like odroid H2/H3 SBCs[0] - they have much less compute power, but support large memory (DDR4 up to 64G), SSD/NVME, dual on-board nics (up to 2.5Gbps), X86 based and just sip on power (2 watts idle, 15w stress, 18w cpu+gpu stress).

0: https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h3

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NUCs may be expensive, until you see a 40% discount on Amazon :) I've got mine this way. Now they are discontinued so one may expect to get them cheap on eBay. Anyway, I'm talking about the box itself and MB/CPU only. Vendors/people often sell a good box with bad RAM/disks at a very low price.

They were discontinued by Intel but the brand was picked up by Asus [0], so not discontinued [1].

[0] https://www.asus.com/us/content/nuc-overview/ [1] https://www.howtogeek.com/say-goodbye-to-intel-nuc-as-asus-t...

I got a Ryzen 7 5800H with 32gb of ram and a 1tb hard drive for 320€... I don't have the dual on board nic, but beside that, it's quite great cpu wise with Proxmox — multiple VM on it, doing transcoding, DNS, dealing with download and search, Home Assistant. Of course transcoding 4k live is costly, but that's an exception. I can use NVMe and SATA hd, that's nice.

And I can update the ram and use ECC.

Not bad all in all !

Still, I got a Dell SFF with an I5 and 16gb of ram for less than 100€ — updated it with a 4 2,5gbps NIC, will be good for OPnsense... If I don't switch to a Melanox Connect 3.

Very Nice :-)

I don't really need that much horsepower (My stuff is like 90% idle - git server, etc.) but I _really_ appreciate the lower noise and power usage compared to my old Xeon blades

I didn't know ODROID was in this market, that's awesome! Definitely checking them out next time I need hardware, the H3 looks perfect.

I sound like a shill - I have no affiliation, just a customer but I _LOVE_ the H series :-)

plenty of power for my needs, silent, low power ... and CHEAP! I especially love the large RAM capacity as it lets me run a lot of docker/vm/etc without swapping. Most of my stuff is idle like 90% of the time (stuff like git servers, etc) so the CPU is fine for me.

I've had mine for a few years now (I had the first gen..) and never any problems!

Don't worry, I'm actually (the original?) ODROID shill!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32619740

Glad to hear they never stopped doing what they were good at, sounds like they've gotten even better!

One of us...One of us :-)

I really hope more people hear of the H2/H3 stuff...I'd love for Odroid to keep making/improving them! :-D

Oh hey - that post was pretty cool :-)

Amazing how much a kind gesture sticks with you! Glad to see stuff like that these days :-D

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