I've been thinking about retiring my Raspberry Pi from the homelab and upgrading to something with a little more horsepower, while still staying around 10+W on energy consumption. The intended use is for a bare metal linux distro providing services that should still be available when my main server is down, like DNS, DHCP, syslog, and OpenVPN.
I was looking at some of the new ASRock Pentium boards like the J4205-ITX (for under $100) and thinking I could fit it in a 1U case, throw in an SSD and maybe a platter drive or two.
My questions are: 1) Which boards in this class would be the best value running as a headless server? 2) Will a board like this physically fit in a 1U case and have sufficient cooling with 40mm fans? 3) Is there anything better in this use case coming down the pike that I should wait for?
I was looking at some of the new ASRock Pentium boards like the J4205-ITX (for under $100) and thinking I could fit it in a 1U case, throw in an SSD and maybe a platter drive or two.
My questions are: 1) Which boards in this class would be the best value running as a headless server? 2) Will a board like this physically fit in a 1U case and have sufficient cooling with 40mm fans? 3) Is there anything better in this use case coming down the pike that I should wait for?