Raspberry Pi alternatives?

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DentFuse

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Hello all,

I know this question has probably been beaten to death but I wanted to get everyone's opinion on which one would the best for my use case and if there were difference between them.

I basically needed a Raspberry Pi for running a personal VPN server and for a couple of personal project. Basic requirements are 1gb RAM. I looked on the official Raspberry Pi website but a were outta stock. Which alternative would be good for my use case?
 
From what I've seen most alternatives like the Orange Pi have seen price increases/stock depletion as well, so the only real options I can think of are the x86 ones like the LattePanda, ASUS Tinker Board and Nvidia Jetson, all of which have much higher price tags. Honestly, if space and power aren't a concern for you, you're probably better off buying one of those second hand office computers with really old CPUs in them - as long as you don't need a large core/thread count or hardware decode/encode, they'll probably do what you need them to.
 
That's probably do good for the vpn server how ever I needed a portable device for my project since it's related to IOT and needs to be in a compact form factor. Hence my original choice was a pi.
 
DentFuse said:
That's probably do good for the vpn server how ever I needed a portable device for my project since it's related to IOT and needs to be in a compact form factor. Hence my original choice was a pi.
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How much is your budget?
 
6pack said:
Amazon has pi3 b+ model at around 9.6k
Plus there's this
Friendly ELEC NanoPi R1 SBC Dual Network Port IoT Router with 1GB RAM & 8G EMMC Supporting Open Source Ubuntu and OpenWrt https://amzn.eu/d/dHA2qpf
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Unfortunately those are really unreasonable prices and risky as they are not even official sellers. Better to wait for official resellers to re-stock them. I wish they would add India to rpilocator.
 
If you're willing to spend around 5k, you could get an old Android phone with a SD820 class processor, flash custom firmware, and use that - provided you can make it work, that should be enough horsepower for most single user projects.
 
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If you're willing to spend around 5k, you could get an old Android phone with a SD820 class processor, flash custom firmware, and use that - provided you can make it work, that should be enough horsepower for most single user projects.
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I second this.

Use an old android phone, root it and run Linux using an app "Linux Deploy".
github.com

Releases · meefik/linuxdeploy

Install and run GNU/Linux on Android. Contribute to meefik/linuxdeploy development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com

...unless you need GPIO.
 
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You can get a used Dell/HP SFF pc with i3 6th gen for about 8k
These are tiny in size, low power but good performance and easy upgrade options.
 
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