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The Pi steals the lion’s share of the attention the in the cheap SBC space, but there are plenty of alternatives that have better storage solutions out there. I
by giobox 7y ago
The Pi steals the lion’s share of the attention the in the cheap SBC space, but there are plenty of alternatives that have better storage solutions out there. I too grew fed up of SD card issues.
I always see the argument “but the Pi has the best community support!” trotted out, and I don’t disagree. However, it’s all normally just sane Linux distros on the Pi at the end of the day. Whatever instructions/advice someone has written for a given Pi project will likely be applicable on a non-Pi board anyway.
- mikepurvis 7y agoI think it depends a lot on your use case. If you just want a dirt cheap HTPC, then yes, there are lots of SBCs that will fit the bill, but the RPi also has a hardware add-on ecosystem around its particular camera and GPIO/SPI/I2C/I2S availability, and even though lots of other boards have those things available and broken out too, you're going to have to be willing to do a lot more leg work to get it all hooked up properly and working for a different SoC.