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Cheap maybe, but if you really use Raspberry Pi a lot, you will find that Pi isn't that robust after all. I installed 20 of them two years ago, so far at least
by chj 10y ago
Cheap maybe, but if you really use Raspberry Pi a lot, you will find that Pi isn't that robust after all. I installed 20 of them two years ago, so far at least replaced 4 of them during the time. Can't comment on the recent models though.
- cmdrfred 10y agoThe Pi alternatives can have better specs at a even more attractive price point[0]. The Pi itself benefits from it's accessibility, if that is not required then pick one of those. [0]http://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-c1 http://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-c1
- pheleven 10y agoI got a pair of odriod's based on price/performance to act as NTP servers and have since removed them from service. They both had the same MAC address on the NIC, which was not impressive and more importantly have about a .5% (consistent) outbound Ethernet error rate. Not ideal for a service utilizing UDP. I now use Pi's, which work flawlessly.
- cmdrfred 10y agoNoted. A new version of the board is due soon that might be improved, but that remains to be seen.
- snowy 10y agoI also got an odroid XU4. As a replacement for a sheeva plug I was using as a home server. I was hoping to use the HDMI out into my TV and use it for browsing and streaming media. Unfortunately none of the distros produced by hardkernel fully work. There is always something broken in each distro. It's a complete pain. I don't know why they cant just produce a distro that has all of the hardware working at install time.
- Symbiote 10y agoMy Odroid X2 and another X3 don't have a proper MAC, it's stored in /etc/smsc95xx_mac_addr. Now that I look, there are some receive errors reported by ifconfig on the X2, but I've never investigated them. The X3 is on a different network, and reports zero errors. (I don't know how much data either has transmitted, the counter will have wrapped as it is only 32 bit.) But, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone not thoroughly familiar with Linux. Compared to the Raspberry Pi, there's not much documentation, and the kernel is pretty old.
- geerlingguy 10y agoI've been hosting http://www.pidramble.com/ http://www.pidramble.com/ on either a cluster of 5 Pi 2s (now 3s), or a single Pi when the cluster is on a road trip, since July last year. The only downtime has been a result of power or Internet outages at home. Anecdotal, but I now have some 36 different Raspberry Pis at my house, and while I've had two (cheap) MicroSD card failures, I haven't had an issue with any of the Pis themselves. As long as you use quality 2A power supplies (1A for older Pis) and quality MicroSD cards, I don't think you should worry too much about reliability, and if you have a cluster with redundancy... That's kind of the point ;)
- chj 10y agoThe Pis I installed are all first version, which uses SD card. I agree that things may improve quite a lot in recent iterations.
- sdenton4 10y agoI had a lot of trouble with corrupt cards. Took care of it by keeping the file system in a USB stick, and using the SD card only for booting into the OS on the stick.
- jrnichols 10y agoHow did you get that working? I haven't had much luck with USB sticks so far. (not really new to Linux, but I'm very new to the Pi.)