Yeah have a collection of minipc - they are indeed great. This build was more NAS focused. 9x SATA SSD and 6x NVME...minipcs just don't have the connectivity for that sort of thing
>Imo, Raspberry Pis haven't been cost competitive general compute devices for a while now unless you want GPIO pins.
I have a bunch of rasp 4Bs that I'll use for a k8s HA control plane but yeah outside of that they're not idea. Especially with the fragility of SD card instead of nvme (unless you buy the silly HAT thing).
> Raspberry Pi 5s can actually support NVME drives
And Raspberry Pi 4s can actually boot from NVME via a USB enclosure.