I have the above, it's max powerdraw is <5 watts, even at 50% cpu its <3watts. That comes with ram, SSD, case and motherboard.
so to get the pi5 to the same state would need an SD card (boo hiss poor speed.)
From what I've seen the pi5 is 1/3rd faster than the intel j5005. (in pybench at least.)
but comparing to a real intel NUC, of course its going to be faster, the NUC costs an entire order of magnitude more.
I bought an N100 for 160 USD including an SSD off of
AliExpress. Thats 2x the cost of an rpi4. I benchmarked it and cpu perf is roughly 2x the rpi however i/o was easily 10x without any sdcard or USB shenanigans. Bonus because it's an Intel chip I can use the regular x86-64 os builds instead of some goofy fork. That's very compelling if you don't need a gpio or any of the raspberry pi accessories for your use case.
I picked up a Beelink because the Raspberry Pi 4 was unavailable. I use it as a Linux desktop (next to my M1 Air) and a Jellyfin media server. It has replaced the Raspberry Pi for some purposes, but the Pi still has a place when hacking on hardware due to the GPIO.
Yeah, still happy I went with the Odroid M1 for a small home media server. It’s not fast, but it does everything I need out of the box, has a very nice aluminum case, and doesn’t use much power.
eMMC isn't that reliable. It's basically an SD card on a chip.
Difference is they're more optimised for random writes than large files like most SD cards, but you can get such SD cards too ("High Endurance" models)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TRIGKEY-Mini-PC-Desktop-Computer/dp...
I have the above, it's max powerdraw is <5 watts, even at 50% cpu its <3watts. That comes with ram, SSD, case and motherboard. so to get the pi5 to the same state would need an SD card (boo hiss poor speed.)
From what I've seen the pi5 is 1/3rd faster than the intel j5005. (in pybench at least.)
but comparing to a real intel NUC, of course its going to be faster, the NUC costs an entire order of magnitude more.