I’m not here to recommend a NUC (because I don’t know), but a thing about the Pis: I have several, some have been constantly running in some form ore another for 10 years, and I have had 0 issues with overheating or SD-cards.
Also I only use the official power supplies.
The Pi 4 and 5 have heating issues, so I added passive cooling to them (if I would do heavy tasks like transcoding I would add active cooling, but that is not my scenario).
They are reliable little machines :-)
(Also they are limited in CPU and memory, so I also have a NUC. It’s an official Intel so not the kind you want ;-) )
I’m not here to recommend a NUC (because I don’t know), but a thing about the Pis: I have several, some have been constantly running in some form ore another for 10 years, and I have had 0 issues with overheating or SD-cards. Also I only use the official power supplies.
The Pi 4 and 5 have heating issues, so I added passive cooling to them (if I would do heavy tasks like transcoding I would add active cooling, but that is not my scenario).
They are reliable little machines :-)
(Also they are limited in CPU and memory, so I also have a NUC. It’s an official Intel so not the kind you want ;-) )