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Which ones at the $50-$75 price point? Edit: Thanks for all the responses, got some good options!

by kentm 3y ago

throwaway2990 3y ago
I can’t even get a pi4 at that price point…
margalabargala 3y ago
This, for example: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=287 https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product... Honestly the major sticking point of Pis for me is that their microSD cards are wholly unsuitable for anything that may lose power or requires long term reliability. Most equivalent manufacturers such as the one above ship with eMMC, which won't get corrupted by sudden power cycles.
- sidewndr46 3y ago
  At that price point why not just buy an Intel based single board computer?
  - cuu508 3y ago
    Which one?
  - Denvercoder9 3y ago
    Do you have an example of an x86 SBC with similar or better price, processing power and power consumption? I tried to find one a while back, but couldn't really find anything suitable, they mostly seem to be in the $100-$150 range.
    - sidewndr46 3y ago
      Atomic Pi Dev board kit is $50 on Amazon. Also doesn't suffer from this weird trend that computers should only have USB power as an option. My real point is once you are out of that "it's a cheap board I can get for $30" type territory it makes more sense to get something substantial.
- justin66 3y ago
  In an industrial application you're likely to be using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, which has an eMMC option. You also have the option of using an industrial SD card with one of the other Pis. If you're using a Pi at home and need greater reliability, a quality portable SSD [0] will get you pretty far. The systems I run that way have always been quite fast and reliable. (don't use an SATA to USB adapter if you can help it, they tend to be flaky and it's a very strange place in a home system to try and save a few bucks, even though a lot of people do it) [0] https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable-solid-state-drives/ https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable...
  - fsagx 3y ago
    I've had 0 issues with pis (system of 50-ish pis running sensors, signage and video running 24x7 for 2+ and 3+ years) that are running on the industrial SD cards and booting into overlay filesystem.
    - justin66 3y ago
      What's your preferred industrial SD card?
      - fsagx 3y ago
        Sandisk industrial 16GB. I was skeptical when I first tried them. I figured it would be too tempting a target for counterfeiters-- source the cheapest SDs available, screen the sandisk logo on them and sell on amazon for $12/each. Fingers crossed -- so far, so good.
- cramjabsyn 3y ago
  I run a journaled filesystem on my pis and haven't had corruption issues so far
- elabajaba 3y ago
  The Nanopi r5s is quite a bit slower than the rpi4.
adolph 3y ago
Here is one designed to replace RPi in the 3D printer control board role. https://www.amazon.com/BIGTREETECH-Adapter-Carrier-Control-Raspberry-Pi/dp/B0BLN8VCVN/ https://www.amazon.com/BIGTREETECH-Adapter-Carrier-Control-R...

Which ones at the $50-$75 price point? Edit: Thanks for all the responses, got some good options!

by kentm 3y ago

Which ones at the $50-$75 price point? Edit: Thanks for all the responses, got some good options!

throwaway2990 3y ago

I can’t even get a pi4 at that price point…

margalabargala 3y ago

This, for example: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=287 https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product... Honestly the major sticking point of Pis for me is that their microSD cards are wholly unsuitable for anything that may lose power or requires long term reliability. Most equivalent manufacturers such as the one above ship with eMMC, which won't get corrupted by sudden power cycles.

sidewndr46 3y ago
At that price point why not just buy an Intel based single board computer?
- cuu508 3y ago
  Which one?
- Denvercoder9 3y ago
  Do you have an example of an x86 SBC with similar or better price, processing power and power consumption? I tried to find one a while back, but couldn't really find anything suitable, they mostly seem to be in the $100-$150 range.
  - sidewndr46 3y ago
    Atomic Pi Dev board kit is $50 on Amazon. Also doesn't suffer from this weird trend that computers should only have USB power as an option. My real point is once you are out of that "it's a cheap board I can get for $30" type territory it makes more sense to get something substantial.
justin66 3y ago
In an industrial application you're likely to be using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, which has an eMMC option. You also have the option of using an industrial SD card with one of the other Pis. If you're using a Pi at home and need greater reliability, a quality portable SSD [0] will get you pretty far. The systems I run that way have always been quite fast and reliable. (don't use an SATA to USB adapter if you can help it, they tend to be flaky and it's a very strange place in a home system to try and save a few bucks, even though a lot of people do it) [0] https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable-solid-state-drives/ https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/portable...
- fsagx 3y ago
  I've had 0 issues with pis (system of 50-ish pis running sensors, signage and video running 24x7 for 2+ and 3+ years) that are running on the industrial SD cards and booting into overlay filesystem.
  - justin66 3y ago
    What's your preferred industrial SD card?
    - fsagx 3y ago
      Sandisk industrial 16GB. I was skeptical when I first tried them. I figured it would be too tempting a target for counterfeiters-- source the cheapest SDs available, screen the sandisk logo on them and sell on amazon for $12/each. Fingers crossed -- so far, so good.
cramjabsyn 3y ago
I run a journaled filesystem on my pis and haven't had corruption issues so far
elabajaba 3y ago
The Nanopi r5s is quite a bit slower than the rpi4.

adolph 3y ago

Here is one designed to replace RPi in the 3D printer control board role. https://www.amazon.com/BIGTREETECH-Adapter-Carrier-Control-Raspberry-Pi/dp/B0BLN8VCVN/ https://www.amazon.com/BIGTREETECH-Adapter-Carrier-Control-R...