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What is a good rpi alternative with good software / distro support that supports on board mSATA or M.2 boards vs. SD cards?

• foolmeonce 6y ago
  The rockpro 64? But that is limited to 4gb, it looks like it's going to be another year† before pine64 is ready with newer SoCs that would be likely to support more RAM and they will again be missing a lot of kernel support. († well actually they will have prototypes shipping to some developers in the next months.)
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• tra3 6y ago
  I’m curious about this too. I suspect the answer is a cheap x86 box. I haven’t seen anything with comparable support..
  • novok 6y ago
    I'm starting to suspect that too. The 2 or 3 that can do it are ~$50-$80, which is almost getting to x86 territory anyway.
    • tra3 6y ago
      This (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001316233680.html?srcSns=sns_Copy&spreadType=socialShare&bizType=ProductDetail&social_params=20007073225&tt=MG&aff_platform=default&sk=_mOHoT7X&aff_trace_key=c03d7be3b26349b5991a20d3d46aa536-1609028595646-03068-_mOHoT7X&shareId=20007073225&businessType=ProductDetail&platform=AE&terminal_id=1a396f3472c14afa8bd0f67f5afdd520 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001316233680.html?srcSns=sn...) is what my friend recommended. About double the price of a Pi but imminently more useful potentially.
• geerlingguy 6y ago
  The Compute Module 4 supports it through different IO board options. I'm testing a few now, but hopefully they'll be available for purchase after the new year: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/ https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/ (check the Issues in the repo for an overview of CM4 boards I'm watching).
• paulgerhardt 6y ago
  I have a few hundred raspberry pis but for personal projects prefer the nanopi. In particular the m4 with the nvme shield makes a good mini nas. https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=275 https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&...
  • fm2606 6y ago
    A few hundred??!! What do you use them for?