My bad boy running all my servers from now on :)

Did they finally gave it a SATA port and non-USB NIC?

@Oktokolo There was a SATA hat a while back, I'd assume it's still around.

At first I thought this was a banana pi, when did the Raspberry get a fan? And how did you get it? On online stores they're either out of stock (controlled price) or valued around their weight in gold.

Just curious: will this kind of passive cooler do? Or do you necessarily have to have an active one?

@kiki thats exactly the one i have and it will totally do. The Raspberry was just bought used so it had the fan on it already. I bought the one on ur image to also secure the bottom.

@joewilliams007 I'm asking because I consider getting rpi too, for pihole and whatnot. Thanks!

@kiki yes. But also i dont want to mislead you. As i havent used the pi without the cooler. Im sure thought if ur running like two webservers or even more it will be enough.. for running a minecraft server maybe not though.

@lorentz IIRC these hats adapt SATA to USB2, so that wouldn't be as fast an option as native SATA support.

@lorentz soo its a used pi4b and the previous owner installed the fan. My brother bought it for my birthday. I have no idea how he got it. But am so happy he did :)

And it does not come with a Sata port. But you can buy a converter. However am not sure how slow it will be with a converter

@joewilliams007
@kiki

I have used a Pi4 without any coolers except for the included tiny ones that you just stick on the individual chips. I'm running it 24/7 for over 2 years now, I bought it pretty early after release, before (before that I had an Rpi3 in It's place)

I run jt as a home server serving files on local network and VPN, I had a minecraft server (paperMC) at the same time on it for a few months playing with my sister and her friend, I ran PiHole briefly and I use it as samba storage for my phones automatic daily backups as well.

No temp issues, no slow downs. I rebooted it only like 5 times in that time for unrelated issues

You can totally run Rpi passive cooled if I can run it. Only time when it got hot was when I ran cpu benchmarks to deliberately see how hot it can get. But even then, if you have a big cooler you're probably fine for about an hour or two of heavy workload. Active cooling only if you're going to have it crunching numbers nonstop

I have a Pi 4 that's actively-cooled (in a case that came with a small fan for the CPU). The fan is near-silent and because it's so tiny the power draw is negligible, so I saw no reason not to use it.

It currently runs eight docker containers (including Pi-Hole) without any real issues. I'm not doing any really heavy number-crunching (other than Pi-Hole blocking thousands of requests from my smart TV whenever it's on), but it's still powerful enough for what I'm currently doing with it.

@EmberQuill yess. My pi is 4gig ram option.. but i feel like sometimes a 3gig android is running much more smoothly and optimised. Like running 4 termux sessions on android compared to raspberry pi is comparable. And pi takes som time sometimes.
Im still glad for the pi though cuz of the fan, root by default and i also connected myself a tiny screen to it

@Oktokolo thought they had those ?

@AvatarOfKaine I was surprised too. Maybe they are still repurposing mobile SOCs - they tend to have no native SATA or Ethernet because there is no use for them in a PDA (although, you could theoretically dock such a thing to convert it into a full desktop).