[Updated 2023-11-12 for farming experience and PoE splitter]
[Updated 2023-11-22 for Pi 5 4GB plot time and case experience]

I was on the waitlist for Raspberry Pi 5 8GB at my local computer shop, Central Computer. I had to go in to get a cooler for a new machine I am going to be building this month, and at the checkout I asked if they had any Pi 5 boards left, thinking I’d play with a 4GB board if they had any left.

“We’ve got 4GB and 8GB, which would you like?”

Well, of course, 8GB.

I already had a couple of cases coming from Amazon in preparation, and a 5V4A PSU (the 5V5A one for full power with the new Pi is already hard to come by), and a fresh MicroSD card from my last visit to Central, so I was ready to go. 

I was planning to wait a while at first, but someone on one of the Chia Discords asked about Pi5 for Chia, I took the challenge on. 

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