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Depends on your intended use. I'm evaluating for use as home lab servers. I'll try this one for NAS/Plex, and if it works well I will buy another to use as an (
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Depends on your intended use. I'm evaluating for use as home lab servers. I'll try this one for NAS/Plex, and if it works well I will buy another to use as an (external) server. For that purpose, multicore CPU performance (and I/O) really matters.
For typical things that people use Raspberry Pis for (turning blinking lights on and off with GPIO or whatever), yeah, not as relevant.
Just have to figure out an enclosure for it. It'd be amazing to put a few of these in a 19" rackmount case. I'd try Eurorack but it sounds like the carrier board width is 116mm, which is too wide for the 100mm height of a Eurorack card.
- nottorp 3y agoWhoa. I looked up the Orange Pi 5 Plus on my morning coffee. M.2 SSD and two 2.5 GbE ports! I can finally upgrade my router!
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoThere are other RK3588 boards more suited for that purpose, explicitly built with more ports and in a case, etc. e.g. https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=289 https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product... But I think I've seen others on AliExpress that had more ports, etc. But yeah, the Orange Pi would work fine.
- nottorp 3y agoThe one you linked has only emmc sadly. I want proper storage.
- nottorp 3y agoI have a cool and quiet fetish. I’m extatic that my M2 Mac mini only uses at most 30 W and I’ve limited my x86 box in the bios to use at most 65 W.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoThe M series CPUs are really a technological marvel. I had an M1 MBP for work for a job I had for a bit and it was amazing. It's really a shame that workstation-class ARM systems (or RISC-V, whatever) remain unavailable outside of the MacOS ecosystem.