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The Banana Pi BPI-M7 single board computer is equipped with up to 32GB RAM and 128GB eMMC flash, and features an M.2 2280 socket for one NVMe SSD, three display interfaces (HDMI, USB-C, MIPI DSI), two camera connectors, dual 2.5GbE, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, a few USB ports, and a 40-pin GPIO header for expansion.

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[–] deleted@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your detailed suggestion.

I’ve got HP ProDesk 600 G5 Mini i5-9500T off ebay for $190. Best damn purchase ever. Running 21 docker containers and transcode 4k with ease while consuming only 35w.

However, sometimes you need GPIOs especially for school projects.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

However, sometimes you need GPIOs especially for school projects.

Yes but think about this, for a simple school/electronics project you can get even an old RPi 2B+ for around 10$ nowadays that will get the job done. For a NAS / media center / selfhosting any second hand machine will be a better choice. I wouln't even mix the two into a single board.

There are also other brand new cheap SBCs that might work for your electronics such as the Radxa Zero 3W or the Zero 3E or even the Raspberry Pi Zero W. The point is that it doesn't make sense to buy a standard and expensive RPi for things that don't require much CPU. If you don't really need an OS and you code C or MicroPython a 3.5$ ESP32 board as well.