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How's power consumption on those N100 boards these days? The RPi has always been quite good for the "I need to run a daemon but don't want to pay more than a USB charger's worth of power" segment. The N100 itself has a reasonable TDP but the boards and storage always seem to draw more power, especially at idle.


N100 boards run significantly hotter. Here's Jeff Greerling's counter argument on why Radxa X4 (a cheap N100 board) isn't a good replacement for RPI5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2atAHDOaIA


Idle power of an N100 will likely be around 10W or so, about 5x the RPi5s.

But sure, if that's a concern then the Pis or clones might be a better option.


> Idle power of an N100 will likely be around 10W or so, about 5x the RPi5s.

A system that's appropriately designed for low power draw should be notably less than that.

I've got an N305 laptop that I'm using as a home server that idles at 4-5W.


Yeah I'm not discounting it. My vanilla N100 box measures about 7W at the wall idling on the KDE Neon desktop. No modifications done to reduce power draw, and it includes the wall-wart that came with it.




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