I’m looking around to buy a new box to run Home Assistant on. My first thought was to buy an Odroid N2+. The Odroid N2+ is also used in the Home Assistant Blue bundle, so it is an obvious choice.
I’m mostly interested in power consumption. The load will be very minimal.
I don’t want to start a flame war, but is the Odroid still a better choice than the intel one? Why?
As an alternative you can have a look at HP T630 ThinClients. AMD CPU (passive cooling), DDR4 memory, M-SATA SSD (two slots). And they are pretty cheap as well. If you are lucky, you can find them for a price of a RPi4 8GB version. And of course you can upgrade the memory or disk.
It is capable to run the Home Assistant OS as well, the generic x86 version.
The power supply is max rated as 65W. If you buy one, make sure that it comes with the right HP power supply as well, they are picky on power supplies and they do not work with aftermarket one.