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There's no question that many people successfully run SBCs and are happy with them but here's some of my personal and thus biased reasons why I don't recommend ARM based SBCs like the pi, HA Green, HA Yellow, HA Blue, etc for running servers.

They have a poor price performance ratio
- BCM2711 is the Pi 4's CPU and BCM2712 is the Pi 5's CPU. N100 and N150 are popular CPUs for cheap Mini PCs.
Some need a powered USB hub if you want to reliably use their USB ports, for example for a external SSD [2]
- This can also happen for certain Mini PCs but they already have "proper" internal storage cpability.
Their internal storage isn't ideal [1]. SD cards corrupt easily
USB boot can be finicky and likely has to be configured:
- https://www.home-assistant.io/faq/usb_boot/
You need a HDMI adapter or USB C ca

Home Assisant Server hardware recomendations

The hardware that you should look at for running hope assistant depends greatly on your plans and requirements

Home Assistant Green

https://www.home-assistant.io/green/

This is a great product if you are just starting out and want to learn. It allows you to jump in without alot of complicated setup.

It is however limited as it is a very low poer and low performence hardwaree. If you are looking to run alot of addons (an addon is not an integration) to run addition services then you will find the green will get bogged down

	#!/bin/sh
	apt-get install unzip
	apt-get -y install alien
	mkdir isdct
	cd isdct
	wget https://downloadmirror.intel.com/23931/eng/DataCenterTool_3_0_0_Linux.zip
	unzip DataCenterTool_3_0_0_Linux.zip
	alien --to-deb isdct-3.0.0.400-15.x86_64.rpm
	dpkg -i isdct_3.0.0.400-16_amd64.deb