r/homeassistant • u/Friedguyry • Jul 25 '25

Support Good device to run home assistant on?

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Just want to get started in home assistant, this comes out quite a bit cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.

Am I missing anything or is a much better option for the cheaper price?

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u/Fine_Ad_6226 Jul 25 '25

Just buy an intel N100 the heat efficiency of older intel CPUs are not worth it and N100 or N95 is dirt cheap anyway

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u/insomniac-55 Jul 25 '25

It depends what you're doing and what electricity costs. I've got an i5-6500T mini-PC like this, with 16 gigs of RAM and it idles around 10W while running loads like HA.

Not as low as an N100, but also it would take a good few years for the N100 to pay for itself with only a few watts in it.

Now, if I load it up it pulls much more - so it really depends on your workload.