Hi Dana and David, Back to the real issue, what do we use these SBC boards for? For me: 1) A Low Power server for my local Amateur Radio club. 10W or less with at least 100Gb of storage and affordable. Mission: Keep the electricity bill down. 2) The Codec2 repeater, on a mountain top somewhere. But needs to log perhaps 1Gb per day of received WAV files. 3) Be a General Purpose Linux box with all the development apps and a remote GUI interface eg. Joe Taylor K1JT compiled and tested the KVASD ARM binary on the BPi box here then made available the ARM binary for WSJT and WSJT-X.
So, I'd dearly like to run a Real Pi but without a High Speed Disk interface on a real Pi, I have no reason to buy one. Yes, I have an original, a 256Mb one. SD cards broke (wore out) in days. That's why in about 2014 I went BPi and have never looked back. Keep smiling guys. I appreciate your thoughts. Current models with SATA on the SoC: Banana Pi M2 Ultra Banana Pi M2 Berry and not much else. Alan VK2ZIW On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 10:06:18 -0700, Dana Myers wrote > On 8/7/2018 8:38 AM, David Ranch wrote: > > Yes.. I too would love to see multiple USB 3.1 buses and an NVMe M.2 interface on a Rasbpberry Pi but it will be a long time > > before you see that on a $35 computer. > > To David's point, NVMe alone requires multiple PCIe lanes - and the > SoCs these SBCs are built around just don't have that level of I/O, > for both cost and power- consumption reasons. > > Dana K6JQ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 Alan Evil flourishes when good men do nothing. Consider the Christmas child. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Beard Unix Support Technician from 1984 to today 70 Wedmore Rd. Sun Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, Linux, SCO, MIPS Emu Heights N.S.W. 2750 Routers, terminal servers, printers, terminals etc.. +61 2 47353013 (h) Support Programming, shell scripting, "C", assembler 0414 353013 (mobile) After uni, electronics tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freetel-codec2 mailing list Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
