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What are some great use cases for a Raspberry Pi 4, if I buy the 5 to replace it? (lemmy.world)
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Alot of us who have a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 might upgrade to the Raspberry Pi 5.

Doing so would leave us with 2 Pi's. What are some great use cases for the older Pi, that would no longer be the main machine?

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[–] 64 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Here is a controversial thought; do you need to replace the 4?

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I can't speak for the OP, but in my case.... It was very much a resounding YES!!!!! If your using Pis as general home servers, like I was, you can very quickly run into resource constraints. I wound up replacing 5 Pi 4's with a pair of 4th gen Intel boxes and I'm still hit resource limitations from time to time. Though now it is more io related then ram or cpu.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You didn't blindly upgrade to the next Pi. Not upgrading or upgrading to something you know meets your demands are the right things to do. I assume upgrading to a Pi 5 is not that for most people

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago*

    In my case I need the 5 for the extra power. It will exactly meet my demands, and the 4 'only' does 90% of the time.

    And if I could find something cool for the 4, I would buy the 5 immediately. But I think I need to know that I can use it for something. Otherwise I will feel bad buying the 5.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    On the other hand, they're relatively cheap and it gives you a spare to tinker with, or at least that's what I told myself last week when I ordered another Pi3 since I saw they came back in stock on Digikey after all these years.

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