Re: New Pico2

On 22/08/2024 22:08, druck wrote:

On 22/08/2024 07:37, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Pis take ever more power..

 Don't confuse the availability of a larger power supply with the Pi 5 taking more power - it's not much different to the Pi 4. However, as you *could* attach 4 USB devices and a PCIe device, the PSU is rated to cope with the maximum current all of those devices could use simultanously. If you won't be doing that, you can use the Pi 4 PSU.
 

No, that is true, and my Pi 4 can just handle two USB SSD drives. JUST. Not three though.
BUT even doing sod all it still draws enough to get its temperature up into the 50's°C. As do the drives  into the 40s°C
Which the Pi zero also does
I think that as a desktop machine Pi 4s and 5s power consumption is approaching that of a good intel chipset *for equivalent performance*.
(these temps may be of interest)
PI 4B (headless) equipped with 2 SSD
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CPU temp=52.1'C
Disk 1= 40°C
Disk 2 =44°C
PI zero 1  (headless)
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CPU temp=43.9'C
PI zero 2 (headless)
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CPU temp=39.5'C
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