“Although I have dabbled with PC's and various gadgets over time, I had little interest in what I thought of as a geeky hobbyist piece of kit (with sincere apologies to geeky hobbyists - I mean you no insult). That was until the latest incarnation of the pi4. It could apparently run my remote Plex media server with minimal fuss. So, well it was only £54, plus a cooling case (I had read about the overheating and throttling), so I thought 'what's the worst it could do'. Truth is, it works a dream for what I need. It runs silently, reliably (rasbian buster) and I haven't had a single glitch in the three weeks it has chugged away, tucked in a corner of my main house whilst I work away from home. Delighted with it. It may not transcode like a proper PC-based server, but it's at least the equal of my Nvidia Shield doing the same job in my other house. Would recommend this little gem”
“Good service from The Pi Hut, but wish they had reminded me at time of purchase that the HDMI AND Usb outlets where different from my three previous Pis and their power supplies.
So - make sure to get your adaptors at the same time,”
“Purchased a PI4 and for what I need it for, it works well - although will be investing in some cooling of it as it runs very hot even doing meanial tasks!”
“I use the Pi4 as a file server with a pair of external 8 GB drives plugged into the USB 3.0 ports and running Raspbian Lite. The server runs 24 hours per day and has been running for a month continuously now without problems.
Over the network I am able to achieve a consistent and sustainable file transfer speed of 30 MB/s, which is 3x faster than with the Raspberry Pi 3 doing the same job.
During high load conditions I found the CPU core temperature did rise to over 70C and decided to use a case with a heatsink and fan to ensure that performance was sustainable and to protect the PI4.”
“I upgraded from Pi 2 and what an improvement it is well worth the money, all i am doing is running a live dashboard for my company but having quick page refreshes is perfect.”
“Great performance but should not be sold or used without substantial cooling. Rather remiss to sell a product meant for beginners in this state, apart from thermal throttling it's not likely to live long...”
“Cannot complain about this new model. I bought the 4GB version. I am running Docker on Raspbian, has been flawless for the past 3 weeks. I run the following containers all consecutively:
- Home Assistant
- Traefik
- Mosquitto
- Jackett
- Portainer (to manage the Docker environment)
It runs all of these containers flawlessly and fast.
Things that were not possible with the 3B are now in the realms of possibility. It costs a fraction of the money to run than using my QNAP NAS. The NAS has now been off for weeks.
USB 3, Gigabit Ethernet, and the possibility to run 2 monitors is all good. I run it headless though, and it runs cooler that way. I'm using the Raspberri Pi 4 Case (With Cooling Fan) that I bought from here, it's the black acrylic one. The Pi remains at around 40C.”
