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What do folks think about these N5105s?
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It's a mini PC (literally just a box). 8/16GB DDR4 RAM, 128/256/512GB 2.5 HDD, processor model options are Intel N5105/N100/N5095/J4125/N95. WIFI5 and Bluetooth 4. 2 USB 2s, 2 USB 3. No USB-C. Windows 11 Pro preloaded (ugh).
But more importantly, how have you configured your browser? It's a direct link to Aliexpress with no tracking middleware. Have you just blocked shopping sites to stay away from them?
I don't exactly remember what I have set up (will have to revisit my config, using Librewolf), but websites like Aliexpress are serious offenders of partial/incomplete redirection requests. Librewolf doesn't like such behaviour, and neither do I.
huh... I've not yet come across LibreWolf. Thanks for pointing me in that direction!
Thanks. What are your ideas on using this as a server?
I'm considering using it either as a plex server with transcoding, or for CI/CD work using github actions to do some data pipelines and npm builds.
How many clients are you serving? That box is too OP for just a plex server.
I think I could run at least a dozen k3s containers on that, with enough RAM and storage
No clients. Just me and another family member. I’d love to hear how you’d serve up a dozen containers on that. How much RAM? 16 gigs?
Admittedly, I don't know if Plex is CPU heavy.
I could run a bunch of applications like a reverse-proxy, a load-balancer, a DNS resolver, a VPN server, an rysnc/Syncthing server, scripts to archive data, downloaders, an internal CA (although that might not be the best idea since you need to carefully back it up), an MQTT server, and maybe other things. These are random examples that came to mind, I'm sure there's plenty more that can be done.
Yes, I would go about 2TB of SSD storage and maybe 16-32GB RAM, although the latter might be overkill for this CPU.
Cheers
out of all those, I'm most curious about that MQTT server. What's your usecase for that? These CPUs don't support anything more than 16GB RAM, so there's that :)
I think Home Assistant is too much of bloat for a couple of IR sensors and relays. Also, if I do everything on Home Assistant, I might not be able to migrate to something else in the future. For now, n8n+MQTT is what I'll use.