Nice little puck - BOSGAME Effizen PC

Just a post to the group that i received my intel M100 puck - a BosGame MiniPC with 16GB, and 512SSD. Ripped out the 512SSD and put in a faster 2TB SSD (sufficient for my needs). Big deal for me on this puck was the onboard SSD and 2.5GB ethernet port - which my PI4 rig never approached having.

I'm not a linux guy so honestly it took me 2 or 3 builds to get the partitioning right, lol - but i left 128GB for OMV (7) to use and used the remaining 1.8TB partition for storage. I put my Compose, Data and DockerBackup folders on that partition along with a shared folder for time machine backups.

Composed Homebridge and Home Assistant into containers and fired them up. Restored my backups of each.

I followed the guide to set up OMV Extras for setup after a base install of Debian. Everything is working very well - and I'm getting more then 2x the throughput i had with my PI. If anyone is looking at PI5 - you should look at the M100 as well. For me, it's a better solution.

Quote from crashtest

If you did the scripted OMV install, after installing Debian, OMV-Extras is automatically installed by the script.
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I have no doubt that performance is better.

Just curious, did you do a price comparison? An R-PI5, 8GB, with a case, a power supply and other bits and pieces can add up. No to mention that you doubled the R-PI5's max RAM and you got a good sized SSD in the bargain.

i did some research ahead of time and found a youtube video comparing a similar setup in price, electricity usage and performance of the Pi5 vs one of these little setups. For me the 2.5 gb ethernet and onboard nvme were the big deals.

as far as omv-extras installs - that's what I was trying to say. Followed process from that page and used their script.

Quote from crashtest

If you did the scripted OMV install, after installing Debian, OMV-Extras is automatically installed by the script.
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I have no doubt that performance is better.

Just curious, did you do a price comparison? An R-PI5, 8GB, with a case, a power supply and other bits and pieces can add up. No to mention that you doubled the R-PI5's max RAM and you got a good sized SSD in the bargain.

if you haven't played with mini-ITX yet - it really is a fun and configurable as a Pi - and surprisingly affordable.