I bought a used 8th gen intel NUC a few weeks ago, and was surprised by what I got for the price.
110€ for 8GB of RAM, an m.2 slot with a 240GB SSD and a 7781 Passmark multi-core score i5-8259U with a GPU usable for stuff like frigate but also QuickSync transcoding.
Plus a second DIMM slot to upgrade to 16GB RAM for another 30€. Plus a SATA Port.
Thunderbolt. WiFi/Bluetooth, and ~4.7W Idle power consumption.
For all the "HW has gotten so expensive", that.. kinda isn't? I mean it's still 8 year old used hardware, but it's also perfectly fine still performance-wise. And it's just some x86 thing, so it runs mainline linux.
For reference, the N100 mentioned in the article has a passmark multi-core score of 5305. Granted, it also has a TDP of 6W, but still.
110€ for 8GB of RAM, an m.2 slot with a 240GB SSD and a 7781 Passmark multi-core score i5-8259U with a GPU usable for stuff like frigate but also QuickSync transcoding.
Plus a second DIMM slot to upgrade to 16GB RAM for another 30€. Plus a SATA Port. Thunderbolt. WiFi/Bluetooth, and ~4.7W Idle power consumption.
For all the "HW has gotten so expensive", that.. kinda isn't? I mean it's still 8 year old used hardware, but it's also perfectly fine still performance-wise. And it's just some x86 thing, so it runs mainline linux.
For reference, the N100 mentioned in the article has a passmark multi-core score of 5305. Granted, it also has a TDP of 6W, but still.