ASUS Chromebox 2

[cyan rock]

I have an ASUS Chromebox - I believe it's a gen 2 (based on pics - not at home right now to confirm). It's been sitting, gathering dust (quite literally) for a couple of years now.

It has an Intel Celeron 3215U CPU, 2GB RAM, and a 16GB NGFF M.2 SSD, as well as gigabit ethernet and 4USB-A 3.0 ports.

Would this be suitable for running HAOS (with USB 2.0 cables for attaching the ZB & ZW controllers, of course)? My HA is currently on Docker, and everyone keeps yelling at me to upgrade to HAOS. Plus, with my server having been down for 3 days, I really want it to be stand alone now... Yes, I'm sure there are many other/better options available for me to buy new today, but this is just sitting here doing nothing, and I figured this would probably be a good use for it.

Will I be sad & disappointed if I use this, or should I expect to get several more years of good service life out of it?

[faint beacon]

I would not use it.
2gb of ram is the bare min requirement
16gb ssd is below bare min requirement (32gb)
looks like they have various bios options so you would need to ensure you flash to UEFI

so you would likely end up needing to mess with flashing bios and updating some components. by the time you go through this hassle you could have gotten something cheap thats much better.

[cyan rock]

Fair enough. Too bad, this thing's too small to be a decent boat anchor, and that sounds like about all it's good for anymore.