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It depends on how much you want to spend.

The ODROID H2 is finally available (it hasn't been available for a long time, due to Intel not producing enough chips (or not selling them to ODROID and others, not sure)), and you can consider it a high-end SBC or a low-end NUC.

The price for board+4GB RAM is roughly 150$ vs 80$ for the RPi 4¹.

It's the lowest priced x86 system available², and the performance is significantly superior to ARM boards (in the range 2-4x of RPi 4).

¹=very rough prices; it's hard find the lowest prices, and it's not clear if it makes sense to do so

²=please no comparisons with discontinued machines (there's always somebody popping up with such comparisons...)




Was aiming to get the system together for $500 or less, including power supplies for a five node system. So SBC/NUC systems above $100 made it less compelling. Obviously performance isn't the consideration here, but number of physical nodes.


The RPi 4 w/ 4gb ram is $55 at my local Microcenter - and an extra $10 for the power supply.




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