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Low Cost Mini PCs (lowcostminipcs.com)
submitted 9 months ago by mahin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Thought this might be helpful as a lot of these mini PCs are hitting the used market.

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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 26 points 9 months ago

Need to add shipping charges to the price...

[-] mahin@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

There's a free shipping filter, but if you're not in that country, shipping costs a lot. The solution to that is to add more marketplaces, which I'm going to next. Where are you located?

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[-] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago
[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago

Hybrid hard drive. Basically, a hard drive with a large solid state cache.

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 3 points 9 months ago

Shipping prices would vary depending on location though, right?

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago

Actual shipping would vary depending on location, but sellers are padding the shipping charge so they can display a lower unit price.

I really like that it is a static website being updated and built on a schedule from github actions.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Number of Drive bays is also a neat filter.

[-] mahin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately this info is rarely provided by sellers.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

I know, which is why it would be extra helpful.

[-] Statick@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I don't see a filter for drive bays. I'm on mobile so maybe that's why?

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[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 7 points 9 months ago

Looking great! I think it would be amazing if there are filters for processor generations as well as form factor. Thanks for sharing this tool!

[-] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Not quite as simple as checkboxes, but the ability is there to some degree!

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[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 5 points 9 months ago

This is a great site, thanks for sharing.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 points 9 months ago

Does anyone happen to know if there is a N100 model that supports HDMI-CEC so I can make my old TV set smart with a recent Kodi and maybe some retro-games? But I'd rather not let it consume 9W or whatever such a machine needs all day long. So it'd need to start and shut down on its own. Preferably without manual additional steps involved, hence the CEC...

[-] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I've heard but not confirmed that the various NUC models have CEC

[-] corroded@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I have a few services running on Proxmox that I'd like to switch over to bare metal. Pfsense for one. No need for an entire 1U server, but running on a dedicated machine would be great.

Every mini PC I find is always lacking in some regard. ECC memory is non-negotiable, as is an SFP+ port or the ability to add a low-profile PCIe NIC, and I'm done buying off-brand Chinese crop on Amazon.

If someone with a good reputation makes a reasonably-priced mini PC with ECC memory and at least some way to accept a 10Gb DAC, I'll probably buy two.

[-] Concave1142@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I've been running OPNsense as a VM in Proxmox for a year on an AliExpress box that doesn't have ECC. If I might ask, why do you have a requirement for ECC?

Before this box, I ran a Dell R230 with pfSense but got tired of the noise and 40 watt power draw.

I've had zero issues without ECC, so I'm just curious about your need for it.

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[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Doesn't work for me on Firefox mobile. Neither "mobile" site or Desktop versions. Hitting "Next/Enter" on my keyboard does nothing, there is no Submit button that I can see, and refreshing the page just resets all fields to defaults.

I don't want an Intel with 4gb RAM and a 256GB spinning drive, and OS included? No dice, that's what I'm offered. Without being able to filter results, its just another craigslist/amazon/newegg front-end ... a less useful one.

EDIT: Turns out there are zero fanless non-Intel, 16+GB RAM, 1024+GB SSD/eMMC offerings with USB-C to list. Strange no-one is packaging an OrangePi 5 Plus like so, but I haven't seen a fanless heat-sink sufficient to make that a good idea anyways.

I had tweaked some of the options, but without clearing either-or-both of those last two, especially "fan-less", all I was getting was the five sponsored "results" the top, which changed just enough to make it seem like that's all the results I could get.

[-] mahin@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I'll try to optimize it, thank you.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Works for me, but damn it's dog snot slow. Like typing takes 1-2 seconds for each character to show up

[-] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

This; works on Mull; there is no submit button, it just constantly refreshes the results and thus is slow AF from continuously juggling the data.

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[-] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

works fine for me

[-] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Using Firefox mobile, everything works and is mostly performance 🤷‍♂️

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I didn't have an issue.

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[-] Binette@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Awesome! I was looking for one to gift to my cousins

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Sadly only for US and UK, or am I missing something?

[-] mahin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I plan to add Canada and Australia next.

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[-] mahin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago
[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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NAS Network-Attached Storage
NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 3 acronyms.

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