Seriously, try older models. For a lot of homelab experimentation, you can do fine with 1 to 4 GB ram older pis, like pi 3 or 4. The price is going to be way lower in comparison to a pi 5.
It depends of course on what you’re doing, but there’s a tendency for people to get the latest and greatest pi when older are just fine and far cheaper.
Yeah I think for the experimentation the older models would be fine and I am looking at getting one for cheaper, there is no stock anywhere at the moment either rn, but I was hoping to have a Jellyfin media server + arr stack and don’t think I would be able to run that smoothly with just a Pi. For lighterweight services I could definitely get that, I was even looking at alternative SBCs from aliexpress around same compute power but cheaper.
Unfortunately a 16GB Pi 5 where I live is $500 alone just for the board. Better off getting a mini PC for that price.
Seriously, try older models. For a lot of homelab experimentation, you can do fine with 1 to 4 GB ram older pis, like pi 3 or 4. The price is going to be way lower in comparison to a pi 5.
It depends of course on what you’re doing, but there’s a tendency for people to get the latest and greatest pi when older are just fine and far cheaper.
Yeah I think for the experimentation the older models would be fine and I am looking at getting one for cheaper, there is no stock anywhere at the moment either rn, but I was hoping to have a Jellyfin media server + arr stack and don’t think I would be able to run that smoothly with just a Pi. For lighterweight services I could definitely get that, I was even looking at alternative SBCs from aliexpress around same compute power but cheaper.