Hi I am currently struggling with deciding between Pis (all variants e.g. Orange Pi) and Nucs as I can’t find any for a reasonable price. Do you guys have any recommandation for me? German/European Stores maybe? I am looking for the best efficency to performance ratio for a low price. Basically just small computing units that I can cluster ideally in a 1U Rackmount.
Not sure if PFSense is available on aarch64. If you’re looking for a router as well as a home server, I’d recommend putting the router on a seperate device (maybe openwrt has a orangepi build, I know they have RPi builds), just because you may be often be changing how your home server is configured but will want your router to behave more like an appliance.
You may be able to find 3D printed rackmounts for orangepi on Etsy or similar, otherwise your chances are slim outside of printing one yourself.