This is depressing because this is the year I wanted to start homelabbing and I’m not even looking for anything fancy but the prices are just too ridiculous. I really hope we see a downturn in the not so distant future.
I don’t know about them but around me even used has gotten insane. You can still find deals if you know what to look for but someone new to homelab may not.
Seriously, try older models. For a lot of homelab experimentation, you can do fine with 1 to 4 GB ram older pis, like pi 3 or 4. The price is going to be way lower in comparison to a pi 5.
It depends of course on what you’re doing, but there’s a tendency for people to get the latest and greatest pi when older are just fine and far cheaper.
Yeah I think for the experimentation the older models would be fine and I am looking at getting one for cheaper, there is no stock anywhere at the moment either rn, but I was hoping to have a Jellyfin media server + arr stack and don’t think I would be able to run that smoothly with just a Pi. For lighterweight services I could definitely get that, I was even looking at alternative SBCs from aliexpress around same compute power but cheaper.
This is depressing because this is the year I wanted to start homelabbing and I’m not even looking for anything fancy but the prices are just too ridiculous. I really hope we see a downturn in the not so distant future.
Used gear on ebay is always there. Don’t need top of the line brand new hardware for a home server
I don’t know about them but around me even used has gotten insane. You can still find deals if you know what to look for but someone new to homelab may not.
You could just fuck with raspberry pis and cheaper options and still do a ton of homelab stuff.
Unfortunately a 16GB Pi 5 where I live is $500 alone just for the board. Better off getting a mini PC for that price.
Seriously, try older models. For a lot of homelab experimentation, you can do fine with 1 to 4 GB ram older pis, like pi 3 or 4. The price is going to be way lower in comparison to a pi 5.
It depends of course on what you’re doing, but there’s a tendency for people to get the latest and greatest pi when older are just fine and far cheaper.
Yeah I think for the experimentation the older models would be fine and I am looking at getting one for cheaper, there is no stock anywhere at the moment either rn, but I was hoping to have a Jellyfin media server + arr stack and don’t think I would be able to run that smoothly with just a Pi. For lighterweight services I could definitely get that, I was even looking at alternative SBCs from aliexpress around same compute power but cheaper.