[Need advice] Looking for a cheap server to replace raspberry pi 3b+

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devlander

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Sorry if this is not the right place to ask for this. I'm new here, and I'm sorry for my bad english, I'm not a native speaker.

I don't have a big budget for this, so I was thinking on something for 150 bucks or less.

Do you have anything on mind that can fulfill this purpose? The raspberry doesn't even hit 30% of cpu usage on it's peak, and 99% when compiling something (I'm a software developer so I have a deployment automated here and I need to recompile some days at week to fix bugs, etc)

So, I don't really need something overkill because the raspberry works just fine, but it is not stable at all, sometimes it gets frozen due I/O errors, so I really need to get rid of this issue.

What I need is at least:

1. RAM: at least 2GB.
2. CPU: The same or better than the raspberry pi 3b+ (Broadcom BCM2837B0, Cortex-A53 (ARMv8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.4GHz)
3. I don't need powerful graphics because everything I do is through SSH. So basically any integrated graphics would work.
4. Good support for usb hubs, so probably 4 USB 3.0 ports.

The USB is the one that worries me, I need a device that has at least 4 USB 3.0 ports to avoid any energy problems (if any, anyways the hub is powered with its own charger).

Thanks for any hint.

I found these but I'm not sure if they are a good deal, at least it's amazon, so I can ask for refund and buy another ones but... you may know better than me since you have more experience with these devices.

Only 2 USB 3.0

2 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0

Any help would be much appreciated
 
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devlander

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finno said:
I believe the Dell Wyse 5070 could be the choice. Got three of them to work like RPI
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First of all, thank you so much for replying.

I was looking at it, and it seems it has a very low cpu power and no hdmi port, I will try to find another device with hdmi as that is the only monitor I have available. Thanks again!
 
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piranha32

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What about Wyse 3040? 4 core Atom CPU, 2G of RAM, 8/16GB of emmc, quite a bit faster than pi4 and much cheaper (especially the 8G version)
 
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louie1961

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GMKTek nucbox G3. They are often on sale for less than $150 with 8gb of memory and a 512gb NVMe SSD. 2.5 gbe NIC, plenty of USB ports, N100 processor. Nice units. I use one as a Proxmox host
 
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SnJ9MX

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pretty much any mini PC has stuff that's a few generations old that will be 10x faster than the Pi, more stable, and consume about the same amount of power.

examples in the $150 price range (double-check they come with power adapters):
M720q (intel 8th gen) - Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Intel Core i3-8100T 3.10GHZ 16GB RAM 128NVMe HDD No OS | eBay
M710q (intel 7th gen) - Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q Tiny, i7-7700T 2.9Ghz, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD Win11Pro #95 | eBay
Dell optiplex 3060 micro (intel 8th gen) - DELL OPTIPLEX 3060 MICRO INTEL i5-8500T 2.1GHz 16GB RAM 256GB SSD 500GB WIN11P | eBay
optiplex 3050 micro (7th gen) - search yourself

tons of people here run them as home servers, which is essentially what you're looking for. you can't go wrong with any of these. I personally have a Dell optiplex 3070 with intel i5-9500T, 2x32GB memory, 1x 960GB SSD mirrored with 1x 1TB NVMe running the majority of my homelab. bought it for ~$300 a couple years ago.
 
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devlander

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I got more replies than I expected, thank you so much everyone, I will pick the one that better fits my needs.
 
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