I looked into this as I was after a SATA based arm board with 4gb of memory to replace a desktop of mine that's long in the tooth and for Linux the x86 limitati

I looked into this as I was after a SATA based arm board with 4gb of memory to replace a desktop of mine that's long in the tooth and for Linux the x86 limitation was moot. I looked around at the various offerings and the best fit was the Rock64 Pro as it has a PCIe slot that you can add a SATA card, as well as USB3 (which is becoming more common upon ARM SOC boards). https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-4gb-single-board-computer https://www.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-4gb-single-board-c... Least that's the current pick, but things change pretty fast and which means that there may well be a better offering. But the market for a good ARM based board with some sata, audio - offing a basic desktop alternative at a reasonable price. However if you after something with umpteen cores, there are offerings out now, though your looking at $1k price range for those. Though none that offer SAS storage, just SATA, which is a shame as these are more workstation affairs spec wise. https://www.avantek.co.uk/powerful-64bit-arm-thunderx-desktop-workstation-aarch64/ https://www.avantek.co.uk/powerful-64bit-arm-thunderx-deskto... EDIT ADD - http://linuxgizmos.com/ http://linuxgizmos.com/ is a nice site that keeps abreast of most SOC offerings coming to market.