Found this little gem of a machine at the local PC recycle store.
Recall this https://www.apolonio.com/blog/?p=9356
This one is interesting, I did add a 2.5″ hard drive, but it is cool in that includes everything else I need compared to a pi.
Couple things, it does include build in wifi, I am still looking but it looks to also have bluetooth.
Had to manually install iwl7260-firmware and NetworkManager-wifi
Looks like I can add another 8GB of RAM to increase it to 16GB.
The CPU is an i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50GHz which does support plex transcoding.
Another cool thing I didn’t realize is it supports NVME.
So in addition to SATA 2.5″ you can have a faster booting NVME.
As for USB, it has 6 USB3 ports.
finally, it draws between 5 and 20Watts (depending on what it is doing) so at worse case it would be about $20 per year to run continuously.
I am going to base my 2024 documentation on this.
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