221–227 of 227 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This usecase is more about running it as a homeserver, where i guess that limitation is not that important. Of course there are a lot of usecases where the Pi is the better choice.
In my case I run my RPi2 as my home server, but off-grid from my non-grid-tie solar PV section, which is a nominal 12V, so a single part (switching 7805 2A, well plus cap) gets my power sorted nicely...
Here's mine:
thisisthebus.com
I use my Raspberry Pi to play around with sensors (such as humidity, temperature, RFID, etc) through the GPIO pins. That's the main selling point, I think. It's an educational product more than anything.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You may want to check out the rapidly growing number of RPi clones... cheaper and often more powerful, besides still having GPIO pins. You can find a nice list of options on the Armbian download page: https://www.armbian.com/download/
problem is That a lot have terrible hardware support. and virtually no community following.
The raspberry pi's selling points are: 1. It works nearly out-of-the-box. You only have to prepare an SD card. 2. It is tiny 3. It is quite power efficient 4. It has GPIO pins, which make it usable for experimenting with hardware. 5. It has a great community (you can easily find many projects for it, and there are some great OSes available, which run nice educational software) 6. It is cheap All of this makes it fant…
The Dell is absolutely not outperforming the RPi on power consumption. I run multiple internal- and external- facing servers (eg multiple static and Java-based Web servers, SMTP, DNS, NTP, etc) and the total power usage is generally much less than 50Wh/day. I can throw my Internet connection router and FTTC box on as discretionary load but that's another ~300Wh/day; it is quite staggering how relatively efficient the…
The raspberry pi's selling points are: 1. It works nearly out-of-the-box. You only have to prepare an SD card. 2. It is tiny 3. It is quite power efficient 4. It has GPIO pins, which make it usable for experimenting with hardware. 5. It has a great community (you can easily find many projects for it, and there are some great OSes available, which run nice educational software) 6. It is cheap All of this makes it fant…
> You can set it up as a server, but this is not its main purpose. I thought the article was very clear about that as it's point. If you were thinking of using an RPi as a server, it's not meant for that, here is a better alternative.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You can set it up as a server, but this is not its main purpose. I thought the article was very clear about that as it's point. If you were thinking of using an RPi as a server, it's not meant for that, here is a better alternative.
Agree, but also, if price is a consideration the optiplex is clearly 5-10x the cost depending on what of the listed upgrades you get for it
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Dell is absolutely not outperforming the RPi on power consumption. I run multiple internal- and external- facing servers (eg multiple static and Java-based Web servers, SMTP, DNS, NTP, etc) and the total power usage is generally much less than 50Wh/day. I can throw my Internet connection router and FTTC box on as discretionary load but that's another ~300Wh/day; it is quite staggering how relatively efficient the…
True. I was thinking of performance, but you're right: power efficiency is a measure as well, and the raspberry pi is very power efficient.