The MiniPC Revolution
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The MiniPC Revolution
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#2> So you mean to tell me you’ve been using your torch to take a shit this last week because your light bulbs don’t work without the PC you watch Netflix on?
This made me laugh. I’ve currently got a home assistant controlled floor standing light in my bathroom because all the old school switch ones in ceiling are dead and landlord is being well a classic landlord
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#3Would benefit from one or two small pictures. I guess MiniPC means like a Mac Mini or an Intel NUC?
> You can expect average power draws of 20-50W in usage and 6-12W in idle.
> Put that in perspective with high-end machines with hardware concerned with performance and not power draw, that can easily idle at 100W.
Have you measured that? I think my full ATX desktop only idles around 30 watts. (With a bunch of apps running ofc) I took out the GPU to reach that, something was wrong with the power saving, feels like bad drivers.
That said... I'm not totally disagreeing. I have a mini PC running a couple web and P2P services. I'm trying to unburden my ATX so it can shut down at night to save power and do maintenance. And having more computers would shift me away from my "kitten" habits, so I'd abstract over hardware better.
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#4> You can get MiniPCs with 4-6 internal M.2 slots that are great for building a NAS with.
Where can I find that? My current Intel NUC has two M.2 slots and a SATA connection. If I were to relax the definition of a MiniPC to include mini ITX then yes I can find these, but given how the author talks about being all-in-one, I doubt the author is talking about mini ITX builds.
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#5what are some hardware people would recommend (specifically looking for power efficiency)?
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#6Yes indeed, I'm running Proxmox on an Asus NUC Pro... thing. Can't remember the exact name.
I initially was recommended a "Minisforum" thing, which I did buy, but it absolutely hated Debian for reasons I don't understand. It would boot, but not reboot, so you'd have to power cycle it every time. Not practical.
The Asus also came with its own issues - it only supports one stick of RAM unless you do a BIOS update, so you have to be careful not to put both sticks in until after the update. Slightly crazy.
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#7> So you mean to tell me you’ve been using your torch to take a shit this last week because your light bulbs don’t work without the PC you watch Netflix on? This made me laugh. I’ve currently got a home assistant controlled floor standing light in my bathroom because all the old school switch ones in ceiling are dead and landlord is being well a classic landlord
What does a "dead light" mean in this context? Your landlord isn't changing your bulbs?
I've mostly lived in 100+ year old homes with old janky wiring and have never had a light fixture die, just bulbs.
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#8Would benefit from one or two small pictures. I guess MiniPC means like a Mac Mini or an Intel NUC? > You can expect average power draws of 20-50W in usage and 6-12W in idle. > Put that in perspective with high-end machines with hardware concerned with performance and not power draw, that can easily idle at 100W. Have you measured that? I think my full ATX desktop only idles around 30 watts. (With a bunch of apps run…
A beelink mini pc will draw about 5w when idle (measured with a watt meter the pc was plugged into). It’s smaller than a NUC (I think!) - it’s slightly bigger than a raspberry pi with a case. Not exactly this model but it cost about us $150.
https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-eq14-n150?_pos=4&_...
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#9> So you mean to tell me you’ve been using your torch to take a shit this last week because your light bulbs don’t work without the PC you watch Netflix on? This made me laugh. I’ve currently got a home assistant controlled floor standing light in my bathroom because all the old school switch ones in ceiling are dead and landlord is being well a classic landlord
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#10> You can get MiniPCs with 4-6 internal M.2 slots that are great for building a NAS with. Where can I find that? My current Intel NUC has two M.2 slots and a SATA connection. If I were to relax the definition of a MiniPC to include mini ITX then yes I can find these, but given how the author talks about being all-in-one, I doubt the author is talking about mini ITX builds.
They're pretty rare, but there's some.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme...
You can also get larger ones like the Asus Flashstor that can do 12.