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Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?

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276 points transpute | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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whywhywhywhy ◴[04 Jul 25 14:03 UTC] No.44464674[source]▶
It's genuinely crazy how much better value an N100 is and how much better it works out of the box than a Pi for anything that is a little server, plex/jellyfin, self hosting project that doesn't need to talk to electronics/GPIO.

Caveat being about my comment is my N100 us used mostly as a Jellyfin server/torrent downloader running windows but has two SSDs inside it and has worked flawlessly for 2 years. Not sure how well it performs under Linux but I've used Pi's a lot previously and this beats it in terms of getting the job done and in price for a similar Pi setup.

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1. chrisfosterelli ◴[04 Jul 25 22:09 UTC] No.44468280[source]▶
Agreed. Especially for a home media server, an underrated element not mentioned in the article is that something like the N150 is going to have intel quicksync for hardware transcoding, and the pi is going to be stuck with software implementations if it needs to transcode something which is going to make a big difference in streaming media performance.