I have an 8gb Raspberry Pi 4 that has been a workhorse for years. I keep it for my not intense but essential networking purposes, NetBoot.xyz, Homepage, etc., because I can run it over PoE (edit: Power over Ethernet), so it is always on as long as my network is up.

It is growing long in the tooth, and I find myself wanting to replace it with something a bit more capable. Looking at the 8gb Pi 5 at $80 plus another $30 for a PoE hat, I wonder if there is something out there that would be a better value for running PoE? Can you convert a micro pc over to PoE? Does anyone have any recommendations for computers that run off PoE or can be converted to PoE?

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Webpage loads are slow, especially images, netboot is a bit slow. I’m sure it’s i/o bottleneck and that everything is running in docker containers. I could probably optimize things a bit better, I just don’t have that kind of time for these projects, and getting an old dell micro would be faster than what I have. but they don’t run on PoE+ that I know of.

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I think pi 5 might be pretty good for you.

      If I am not mistaken, they improved the io A LOT in the pi 5.

      Also, you might be able to use the old HAT, at least it worked with pi3 poe hats on pi4.

    • AtariDump@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      … they don’t run on PoE+…

      They do not; the power requirement is too high. You’re not going to find a computer with a “desktop class” CPU that can be powered via PoE.