I can't find a Raspberry Pi 4 in stock so I want to get an used Thinclient like pic.
This model: support.hp.com
I will cost me only 30 euro, will this perform better than the Pi 4?
CPU: AMD GX-217GA Dual-Core APU with AMD Radeon HD 8280E graphics (1.65 GHz)
System memory: 4 GB DDR3L 1600 MHz standard
Bonus question: What's the best terminal-only Linux distro I can put? Thinking of CentOS since I'm familiar with Red Hat from work.
>will this perform better than the Pi 4?
Going by some simple benchmarks, they're both slow as balls.
I seriously hope you don't expect buttery smooth interaction with that shit heap
>perform
Performance is relative. At SoC garbage scale nothing performs well.
Lower your expectations and you'll be happier with your purchase.
If you're willing to drop $500 you might as well buy an i5 mainboard from the framework laptop marketplace and use it to build one of those keyboard-only computers
Similar performance to the Pi for CPU tasks, much faster GPU, better r/w speeds with the mSATA SSD in the thin client compared to the SD card on the Pi.
Man I just one to run Pi Hole and a basic NFS server.
I'm running today on a Pi2 700Mhz and it is fine, but I'm starting to get some alerts "Long-term load (15min avg) larger than number of processors: 1.1 > 1".
I wanted to upgrade to Pi 4 but this Thin Client is probably an OK alternative right?
>Pi Hole
placebo. Ran one. Totally useless. Better spent setting up your own DNS that mirrors root.
>NFS
and be limited to realistically one drive? Your life senpai. I hoard so that doesn't work for me.
by the way, what you're looking for is called a "server"
A thin client is like a Chromebook or a smartphone or some useless shit like that. It's something you carry around with you.
Pi Hole works fine for me.
>NFS
Yes, the main use is to store my emulator save games so I can have my own "cloud" and play from my PC, laptop and steam deck. So I don't need much space and I'm not a hoarder.
Then it's a great choice. $30 well spent.
Just checking to make sure you knew the limitations.
thanks m8
By the way what distro do you suggest?
i've been using a t520 thin client as an openwrt router for some time now and it's been great
way faster than the quad core 1.7GHz arm-based soho router i was using before which couldn't do SQM at 100Mbit/s, while this one doesn't break a sweat
really goes to show the difference between arm and x86, this being "only" a 1.2GHz dual core
i plan on putting a normal distro on it, probably gentoo, and running opewrt as a container at some point, since this is very underutilised as it is
That's great, do you connect your provider's modem in bridge mode to the PC?
Also, can it handle docker? I was thinking things can get very heated with some running containers there.
it's connected to the provided modem (dumb layer 2 cable modem, just wants a pppoe connection over vlan 1) connected through a usb3 gigabit ethernet adapter
>Also, can it handle docker? I was thinking things can get very heated with some running containers there.
don't see why not, i assume the t620 is about the same, this one just has a heatpipe and heatsink across the top of the unit, and is passively cooled
it only gets a little warm here, but since i'm currently only using it as a router, it doesn't get pushed very hard, even so it uses like 10W at max load and that's only if you use the gpu, the cpu alone is only like 6W so i doubt you could overheat this thing
spend a little more get a lot more
I appreciate the suggestion but the lowest I could find this is €270. I don't consider this "a little more".
It's x86 AND it has a GPU.
anything you install on it will work.
Use what you like.
These days I like immutable distros.
itll outperform any pi while not having recompile everything for arm
however I would call neither blazing
whatever youre the most comfortable with
for me, its debian
>If you're willing to drop $500 you might as well buy an i5 mainboard from the framework laptop marketplace and use it to build one of those keyboard-only computers
zoomer tier idea
you can pick up any beaten old consoomer laptop, take off the screen, take out the battery and use that for much less
Docker is RAM limited.
t. Kubernetes Operator developer.
At the point you're looking into setting up lots of services you should just ball up and buy a real server with a buttload of cores.
Immutable Linux is a better choice for SoC-tier deployments.
They were invented to solve the problems that people use Docker to patch over (dynamic linking and corresponding DLL/dependency hell)
if you use the same base system with your containers, you could use a kernel with UKSM to deduplicate all those identical files
are you too retarded to google the fucking CPU + benchmark? trick question, i already know you are since you made this thread.