On 07/08/18 10:54, Alan Beard wrote: > Also guys, I'm amazed, nobody seems to want a Pi with a high speed disk > interface.
It's not that we don't want it, it's that most don't want the cost of such a beast. The Pi is cheap because they took an existing SoC meant for set-top-boxes and smartphones, high-volume devices with little need for I/O. It is because of the "high-volume" aspect of these chips' production that make it possible to produce a cheap computer. There are ARM chips that have these other interfaces, but there's less demand for such things in mass-volume products, so they're more expensive. https://www.compulab.com/products/sbcs/sbc-imx8-nxp-i-mx8m-single-board-computer/ is one that offers PCIe, yes, they sell for US$68, but I hope you have a use of 1000 of them. If you want individual ones, you're looking at US$204 or ~AU$280. ~$100 for a LGA1151 motherboard, another ~$80 for a CPU, ~$50 for some RAM, ~$30 for a PSU and ~$50 for a SSD: there's a similar spec x86 machine for about AU$310. When you consider that ARM SBC will require a PSU (the x86 machine includes this), suddenly the higher-end ARM SBCs aren't so compelling. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
