The name of the game with these kinds of units is efficiency vs raw computing power. If the server is just going to be sitting on a shelf "headless" and (semi)permanently the less power consumed and heat generated the better.
IF you really want to go down the rabbit hole there is the odroid..
@aaiyar "persuaded" me to get one of these (an N2) a while ago.. very powerful. It too runs really well but doesn't quite have the popular support that the RPi does and is more expensive. Still testing it though..
200w PSU is not the micro. They usually come with a 60w brick. My 6th i5 ran about 10w idle. Price wise, yes more than a pi but worth the extra in my opinion. In a drawer now along with some pi's just in case I want to try something new.
Moved my setup from optiplex -> mac mini -> docker (synology nas).
yeah that was my quick and dirty amazon search - other models had an even larger psu. Seems like a decent option though.
The RPi uses about 2.85 watts at idle - the rate I mentioned was peak I think.
For my use-case I would (and actually have) repurposed something like that or maybe a little larger as a NAS. NR/HB don't require much in the way of processing power.
