d6jg wrote: > I slightly disagree. The weak point of the Pi to date has been the > shared bus for the LAN & USB. In normal use it doesn't show itself but > if you run 24/7 and have a bunch of synced players connected to it then > you will notice some "drift" that you don't get with more traditional > hardware. If I read correctly the Pi4 has 1. a true Gigabit LAN and 2. > USB3 which I don't think share the same bus (yet to see it stated > conclusively though). If this is the case a Pi4 with 2GB RAM and some > USB3 attached storage will make a great LMS server. Overkill as a player > without doubt and anything more than 2GB RAM would be a waste of money > for a server. I'll be interested to see how the guys who develop > piCorePlayer decide to deal with the increased RAM available.
I agree USB / LAN has been a weak point and the following blog post ( https://blog.hackster.io/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-9b4698c284 ) seems to indicate that this has been fixed old shared LAN /USB via LAN7515 chip has been replaced by a PCiE bus separating LAN chip from USB bus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110690 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
