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They are very powerful and practical for their sizes. This is why some people, incl. me, absolutely love them. I have plethora of this SBCs. A Raspberry Pi 4 i

They are very powerful and practical for their sizes. This is why some people, incl. me, absolutely love them. I have plethora of this SBCs. A Raspberry Pi 4 is acting as a HiFiBerry system at my parents' home, replacing a component Hi-Fi. With high end 2x35W amplifier and quite a nice software stack, my parents can listen whatever they wish to do with their old high quality speakers in a very practical manner. Sound quality is superb, too. HiFiBerry amplifiers are no slouch. I ran an OrangePi Zero/512MB with BitTorrent, DNS, FTP, Syncthing, WebFS http server. It served as the perfect home server. I'm currently setting up an OrangePi 5B with 8GB RAM to replace my old desktop computer's duties. Cloud backups, video encoding, local DNS, etc. Also, it'll take over the previous Zero's roles too, and with almost no cables, it'll replace and even supersede my old Desktop computer, and make my life much easier. These things are immensely useful.

zikduruqe 3y ago
> These things are immensely useful I have a RPi2 that is running a weather website since 2014. Same SD card, insane uptime, and virtually zero maintenance. My other RPi's serve has my Homebridge, Wireguard endpoint, Tailscale exit node, DNS server, Plex, git repos.... Crazy how useful they are.
- bayindirh 3y ago
  Having a small cluster of these is very fun as a homelab, esp. when combined with 5 port switches from TP-Link and others. I prefer to merge them to a one powerful server, because I already have more than enough servers at the office, and want to keep a minimalist home as much as possible. If the MIMO Wi-Fi chipset works as promised, I'll only attach a single disk and power to this thing, and tuck it away somewhere. What's nice is, Rockchip systems have "heartbeat" LEDs on them, so I'll be able to see whether it's running or not with a single glance.

zikduruqe 3y ago

> These things are immensely useful I have a RPi2 that is running a weather website since 2014. Same SD card, insane uptime, and virtually zero maintenance. My other RPi's serve has my Homebridge, Wireguard endpoint, Tailscale exit node, DNS server, Plex, git repos.... Crazy how useful they are.

bayindirh 3y ago
Having a small cluster of these is very fun as a homelab, esp. when combined with 5 port switches from TP-Link and others. I prefer to merge them to a one powerful server, because I already have more than enough servers at the office, and want to keep a minimalist home as much as possible. If the MIMO Wi-Fi chipset works as promised, I'll only attach a single disk and power to this thing, and tuck it away somewhere. What's nice is, Rockchip systems have "heartbeat" LEDs on them, so I'll be able to see whether it's running or not with a single glance.