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Too bad it still doesn't have SATA, USB3 and Gigabit Ethernet.But this is already big step forward, wifi, bluetooth and a better cpu for the same price. The nex
by txdv 11y ago
Too bad it still doesn't have SATA, USB3 and Gigabit Ethernet.But this is already big step forward, wifi, bluetooth and a better cpu for the same price. The next generation will look even more promising. Currently I am just using my obsolete wifi dongle for my rasp
- LeoPanthera 11y agoIf it had all those things it would be a PC, with a price tag to match. If you need those things, build a PC.
- astannard 11y agoThe Orange Pi 2 Plus has sata and about the same price
- tehbeard 11y agoSATA via USB though? http://linux-sunxi.org/Xunlong_Orange_Pi_Plus#SATA http://linux-sunxi.org/Xunlong_Orange_Pi_Plus#SATA
- flowless 11y agoExactly. And limited to 15MB/s writes.
- voltagex_ 11y agoI haven't seen anything with directly connected SATA outside of iMX6 boards, and the pins aren't always connected. What did the Ax0 based Cubieboards use?
- makomk 11y agoThe original Cubieboards used on-chip AHCI SATA controllers. Allwinner dropped it from their newer chips, presumably because they're targeting tablet use and there's no need for them.
- notacoward 11y agoThe Banana Pi Pro (not the regular Banana Pi) is the only one I know of that has real SATA.
- cnvogel 11y agoAllwinner A20 has directly connected SATA.
- keenerd 11y agoIs native sata that much better than a usb3 adapter? All of the chips that offered sata were SATA 2.0, or 300MB/s. USB3 goes up to 625MB/s. If a board with SATA 3.0 existed, that is still just 600MB/s.
- gruturo 11y agoOlimex boards have a direct SATA connection. This is on a Lime-A10 with a cheap 2.5" 1TB drive, about 70% full so some fragmentation etc: # dd if=/dev/zero of=6G bs=1M count=6144 6144+0 records in 6144+0 records out 6442450944 bytes (6.4 GB) copied, 136.176 s, 47.3 MB/s # dd if=6G of=/dev/null bs=1M 6144+0 records in 6144+0 records out 6442450944 bytes (6.4 GB) copied, 93.6363 s, 68.8 MB/s Also they have a nice battery connector, they'll keep the battery charged and switch to it if main power fails (and even keep the SATA drive powered (not sure if you plug a 3.5" one, though)).
- mkoryak 11y agoI made the mistake once of buying an orange pi. I thought, hey, this has better specs, so its better. I was wrong. Horrible support, 2 of the usb ports never worked. The community is non existent compared to rpi.
- bubuga 11y ago> Too bad it still doesn't have SATA, USB3 and Gigabit Ethernet. It costs $35 and comes with ethernet, wifi, and a quad-core processor. Furthermore, it's fully supported in linux. That's terribly awesome for what it is. A decade ago you had to spend 50x that amount of cash to get a laptop with those specs, without linux support. No matter how you cut it, the Raspberry Pi 3 is not bad from any angle. At all.
- txdv 11y agoI'm not sayings its a bad deal, I just personally hoped for usb 3.0 or sata for faster connected IO, or gigabit ethernet for faster remote IO
- rtpg 11y agoThe machine is also likely not fast enough to take advantage of those speeds
- hatsunearu 11y agoYeah, if you run iperf3 on a raspi, it can't even saturate it's 100Mbps connection!
- keenerd 11y agoYou probably want a computer designed around performance instead of "community". Check out the Odroid C2. It's got a 64 bit quad core CPU (just* like the Pine and RPi3) but clocked at 2GHz. And has real gigabit. And has twice as much ram. And can drive a 4k screen comfortably. Sadly no USB3. You can get that, but in boards that cost $70. The C2 goes on sale in like one or two days for $40. (edit: You can buy in now on HK's website.) Kind of a childish move for the RPi Foundation to be making so much noise about their new board right now, actually. (edit: Okay, benbenben makes a fair and accurate point. Several boards, including the first, have been released at the end of February.) * Not entirely just like. It's an Amlogic chip instead of Broadcom or Allwinner. Amlogic is one of the few without blatant GPL abuse.
- kayoone 11y agopretty sure the CPU could not even remotely saturate USB3 or Gigabit Ethernet
- awqrre 11y agoAnd still so many people choose it as file server...