After discontinuing the H2+ due to the parts shortage they now have the H3 and H3+ with an Intel N5105 / N6000 CPU. The box has 2.5 Gbit ethernet and can even be used with the NVMe to ethernet net card.

This makes for a really awesome low power server and should even be a really capable OPNsense box with that net card. The case options also look amazing, small and simple yet flexible. Having only two SATA ports might be a bit limiting for data horders but then again it’s easy to add more via USB anyway.

I’m really liking what I see there. Especially with power prices surging all over the world, I think this might be a really great low power server recommendation?

  • bruhbeans
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    01 year ago

    I do like the idea of these, but older core-i5s perform so much better than even the newest pentium/celery chips, and they’re often a lot cheaper. I got refurbed thin client machines with 6th-gen core-i5 cpus and 16GB RAM and 256GB NVMe included for $180 (and a Windows license, for those who like pain), those cpus bench 2-3x higher than the $165 H3+'s N6000 which doesn’t include RAM, NVMe or a power supply.

    That said, the h3/h3+ probably use less power, and my refurbs only have a single GbE port, vs 2x2.5GbE in the odroids, so the odroids are good for a router/firewall.