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If you insist on using Pis (IMHO you're quickly at the point where a (potentially used) NUC or small office PC is the better choice), why would you go for extra expense and effort for PoE? Just connect a 5V PSU to the power pins? I guess it gives you individual power switching without any DIY, but other than that?


Simply for not having to deal with all the usb-c adaptors and cables.

It's also pretty cool being able to turn the pis on or off by cycling the switch port from your network control plane (Unifi in my case)

You could even do it dynamically via the api for a "bare-metal autoscaling" type workflow.


> Simply for not having to deal with all the usb-c adaptors and cables.

You can get one large 5V PSU and go directly to the pins on the Pi. No need to bother with individual USB adaptors...




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