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If you want to run something heavier, like Nextcloud it’s a good idea to consider an Atom board. It comes real SATA connectors and USB3 and you can get them for

If you want to run something heavier, like Nextcloud it’s a good idea to consider an Atom board. It comes real SATA connectors and USB3 and you can get them for 70-80€. If heard good things about the Beaglebones, but never used them myself. I‘m not a fan of the Odroid board, because they require custom Linux or Android and at some point those are not updated any more.

benj111 8y ago
That is like double the price though. I know its all trade offs, but for its price, there isn't really anything to beat the pi.
- andai 8y ago
  Except the Chinese clones! They compete in price, ports and clock speed. The downside is smaller community, less images etc.
  - benj111 8y ago
    By less images, you mean 1 patched Linux kernel, that's never updated. As I said, trade offs
    - floatboth 8y ago
      For pretty much all Rockchip and Allwinner SoC based boards, just run mainline Linux. Or BSD :)
VvR-Ox 8y ago
Only if you have bad luck. I run a NextCloud on RPi3 for over 1 year constantly and didn't have any issues so far. Yes it's just 2 users but I also shared folders with people who up- and download stuff. The web interface is responsive enough and the weak end when downloading stuff from it is my internet connection (upload sucks). I agree that it's a good idea though ;-) I've ordered a successor with some serious power and SSD for the Pi (https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-scooter-computer https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-scooter-computer) to get more users to work with it and also try the NextCloud Talk feature. Also heard good things about the beaglebones.
- mastazi 8y ago
  > Only if you have bad luck. I hope your storage is not an SD Card though, because if that's the case you are tempting fate ;-) Thank you very much for the "Scooter Computer" link! I had seen those off-brand x86 boxes on Alibaba and I wanted to get a couple for a project but didn't know where to start from, that article by Atwood is a good start.
kbumsik 8y ago
> Atom boards It's more than a double price of RPi. It's definetly not afforable for education purpose. > Beaglebone I love this SBC but it is seriously underpowered than RPi in 2019. It focus more on real-time embedded system performance and rapid hardware prototyping.
- johnchristopher 8y ago
  >> Atom boards > It's more than a double price of RPi. It's definetly not afforable for education purpose. It's definitely more affordable than those ipads units bought by some schools.
- fock 8y ago
  > If you want to run something heavier, like Nextcloud You get that in this case Atom-boards or the odd AMD Geode are a lot better than any of the * -droids out there? The RPi has it's own specialties, especially the price. For 40USD (give or take) you get a system: - which might be running proprietary FW but still has it documented and allows you to run any OS you can imagine; - is (partly) manufactured in Europe!; - has an actual company/community behind which is caring for the product/itself way more than the "let's make some-money from the rich DIY-guys in EU/US"-* droid-company
KaiserPro 8y ago
atom isn't opensource. But then thats a pretty weak argument against any board. the raspberry pi foundation are a charity, they spend virtually all their profits on education.

benj111 8y ago

That is like double the price though. I know its all trade offs, but for its price, there isn't really anything to beat the pi.

andai 8y ago
Except the Chinese clones! They compete in price, ports and clock speed. The downside is smaller community, less images etc.
- benj111 8y ago
  By less images, you mean 1 patched Linux kernel, that's never updated. As I said, trade offs
  - floatboth 8y ago
    For pretty much all Rockchip and Allwinner SoC based boards, just run mainline Linux. Or BSD :)

VvR-Ox 8y ago

Only if you have bad luck. I run a NextCloud on RPi3 for over 1 year constantly and didn't have any issues so far. Yes it's just 2 users but I also shared folders with people who up- and download stuff. The web interface is responsive enough and the weak end when downloading stuff from it is my internet connection (upload sucks). I agree that it's a good idea though ;-) I've ordered a successor with some serious power and SSD for the Pi (https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-scooter-computer https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-scooter-computer) to get more users to work with it and also try the NextCloud Talk feature. Also heard good things about the beaglebones.

mastazi 8y ago
> Only if you have bad luck. I hope your storage is not an SD Card though, because if that's the case you are tempting fate ;-) Thank you very much for the "Scooter Computer" link! I had seen those off-brand x86 boxes on Alibaba and I wanted to get a couple for a project but didn't know where to start from, that article by Atwood is a good start.

kbumsik 8y ago

> Atom boards It's more than a double price of RPi. It's definetly not afforable for education purpose. > Beaglebone I love this SBC but it is seriously underpowered than RPi in 2019. It focus more on real-time embedded system performance and rapid hardware prototyping.

johnchristopher 8y ago
>> Atom boards > It's more than a double price of RPi. It's definetly not afforable for education purpose. It's definitely more affordable than those ipads units bought by some schools.
fock 8y ago
> If you want to run something heavier, like Nextcloud You get that in this case Atom-boards or the odd AMD Geode are a lot better than any of the * -droids out there? The RPi has it's own specialties, especially the price. For 40USD (give or take) you get a system: - which might be running proprietary FW but still has it documented and allows you to run any OS you can imagine; - is (partly) manufactured in Europe!; - has an actual company/community behind which is caring for the product/itself way more than the "let's make some-money from the rich DIY-guys in EU/US"-* droid-company

KaiserPro 8y ago

atom isn't opensource. But then thats a pretty weak argument against any board. the raspberry pi foundation are a charity, they spend virtually all their profits on education.