I don't know about your exact use case, but "outgrowing my Raspberry Pi" is often mentioned these days.
Now here is the thing: I also often hear about (and partly experienced myself) this exact situation. However, the problem with all these low power small form factor x86 PC's (like the Odroid H4) is, that there is not much review material.
I, personally don't think they are worth the money. Many people drastically underestimate the "low power" capabilities of x64 server hardware (let's say Dell T30 or Fujitsu Workstations) and to be honest: Spending a huge amount of money to save a few watts won't pay off in the near future.
So, the questions are: How much money would you like to spend? How much "powerful" do you need? And last, but not least: Which other features are important (like ECC RAM, 2.5Gbe, NVMe, SATA Ports, Remote Management / IPMI)?
I would go for one of these:
- ASRock N100DC-ITX (Non-Server N100 board with 6W idle power consumption)
- Odroid H4 (Non-Server N100 up to N305 board with ~5W idle power consumption)
- Gigabyte MC12-LE0 (Server Ryzen ECC board with ~25W power consumption)
- A used device like ThinkCentre, HP Prodesk / Elitedesk, Fujitsu S740 (Non-Server, ~8W power consumption)
Now here is the thing: I also often hear about (and partly experienced myself) this exact situation. However, the problem with all these low power small form factor x86 PC's (like the Odroid H4) is, that there is not much review material.
I, personally don't think they are worth the money. Many people drastically underestimate the "low power" capabilities of x64 server hardware (let's say Dell T30 or Fujitsu Workstations) and to be honest: Spending a huge amount of money to save a few watts won't pay off in the near future.
So, the questions are: How much money would you like to spend? How much "powerful" do you need? And last, but not least: Which other features are important (like ECC RAM, 2.5Gbe, NVMe, SATA Ports, Remote Management / IPMI)?
I would go for one of these:
- ASRock N100DC-ITX (Non-Server N100 board with 6W idle power consumption)
- Odroid H4 (Non-Server N100 up to N305 board with ~5W idle power consumption)
- Gigabyte MC12-LE0 (Server Ryzen ECC board with ~25W power consumption)
- A used device like ThinkCentre, HP Prodesk / Elitedesk, Fujitsu S740 (Non-Server, ~8W power consumption)