I had switched over to a NanoPi R6C with official passive cooling case in Apr and never looked back.
NanoPi R6C (as "R6C")is a one-for-all high performance platform for edge computing, designed and developed by the Friendly Elec team. It has a 2.5G and a Gbps Ethernet ports. It is based on Rockchip's RK3588S, and has 4GB/8GB LPDDR4X RAM
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My Pi 4 RJ45 port had a bent pin and at that point the Pis were way more expensive or OoS.
Furthermore it has a PCIe slot where I directly plugged in a WD Blue SN570 1 TB SSD and everything is neatly contained in a single box with similar form factor to a Pi and doesn't need external SSD enclosures hanging off the side
I run the following stuff on it-
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I am running pihole & flaresolvver on docker containers,tinyrss on bare metal install as well as flexget for automated torrent downloads.
It runs a RK3588S 8 nm chip with 4xA76 cores @2.4 GHz & 4xA55 cores @1.8 Ghz and is way faster than a Pi4.
The Pi 5 has 4xA76 cores @ 2.4 GHz but its a 16nm node so power draw is higher.
It runs pretty cool as well.
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The Pi 5 might be a better deal albeit with higher power draw if we don't get scalped.