Best $100 or less Small Form PC for Uptime

j03h4gLund

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I plan on running a ZNC bouncer. And maybe a plex media server.

Was looking at ASRock Deskmini 110W which goes on sale for $90 tomorrow for the week of Black Friday

I really want something with great stability and longevity.
 

VirtualLarry

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Amusingly, or perhaps not, I've found my DeskMini units (I own three of them, thus far), to be less than 100% stable. Some of them suffer from spontaneous reboots and the like. (Not just updates.)
 

Ken g6

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I got a "refurbished" Deskmini. It turned out the motherboard was a mess, and probably shorted out. So I got a different brand of motherboard. It mostly fit, except the SATA ports are on the top, not the bottom. So I can only run it with USB drives or a M.2 drive. Point is, if you have to replace the mobo your options may be limited with a Deskmini.
 

Rifter

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Its over $100 but not by alot. I bought a QOTOM Q310G4 to use as my pfsense firewall/router box and its been up since i got it 10 months ago. No crashes. Only time its been reset is when needed for an update. Its been the definition of rock solid for me.