Every mini PC, Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi and other board worth buying, with ports, storage, RAM, software support, what each is good for and prices.
12 devices
Ryzen mini PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Great fit
Sixteen Zen 5 cores, two 10 GbE SFP+ ports, three SSD slots and a PCIe slot in two litres.
Intel N mini PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Good
Two Intel 2.5 GbE ports, two M.2 slots and a built-in power supply around an N150: the all-rounder home server.
Intel Core mini PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Great fit
The Intel twin of the MS-A2: 10 GbE SFP+, USB4, three SSD slots and Quick Sync.
Intel N mini PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Good
A 10 cm cube with six M.2 slots and fast networking: an all-flash NAS that uses a few watts.
Ryzen mini PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Great fit
Eight Zen 4 cores and Radeon 780M graphics in a quiet box: a real desktop that also runs a homelab.
Intel Core mini PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Great fit
The classic NUC, now by ASUS: tidy, well-built, two Thunderbolt 4 ports and Quick Sync with AV1.
Other boards
Homelab / Proxmox:Good
A silent, fanless N150 board in an aluminium case with two Intel 2.5 GbE ports, two SATA ports and a PCIe slot.
1-litre business PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Good
The off-lease favourite of homelabbers: six cores, up to 32 GB and a PCIe slot for a network card.
Radxa
Homelab / Proxmox:Good
An Intel N100 PC in Raspberry Pi size, with a Pi-style GPIO header driven by an RP2040.
1-litre business PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Good
Two NVMe slots plus a 2.5" bay make this the storage-friendliest of the renewed 1-litre PCs.
1-litre business PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Good
A cheap, quiet 1-litre PC with six cores and room for 32 GB: an easy start with Proxmox or a family desktop.
Intel N mini PCs
Homelab / Proxmox:Good
A small, cheap N150 box with one 2.5 GbE port and room for a second SSD.