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Too bad there's no connectors for fast external storage, like eSATA or USB 3.

by sciurus 13y ago

j-kidd 13y ago
For general computing purpose (e.g. HTPC + bittorrent + samba), there are always something missing with these small ARM computers. I am holding on to my AMD E-350, especially with the rapid improvement in the radeon driver lately. Gigabyte Brix with AMD Kabini is going to be interesting, and possibly very competitive in pricing without sacrificing performance: http://liliputing.com/2013/06/gigabyte-brix-mini-computer-to-come-in-amd-kabini-intel-haswell-flavors.html http://liliputing.com/2013/06/gigabyte-brix-mini-computer-to...
- friism 13y ago
  Exactly. What I'm looking for is a board with a reasonably fast CPU (preferably dual core), SATA and a a PCI-E or USB3 port for a fast 802.11n/ac wifi adapter. PogoPlug v4 is almost there, but the CPU is too slow to sustain more than ~40MB/s of I/O.
  - ndaugherty18 13y ago
    I preordered this, gigabit lan and sata, http://shop.udoo.org/pre-order/udoo-quad.html http://shop.udoo.org/pre-order/udoo-quad.html
- puzzlingcaptcha 13y ago
  Wyse and HP will probably refresh their thin client product lines with the new AMD APUs as well. Re-purposing those if you can get them second-hand can be quite cheap and get you the hardware you want (HP has standard BIOS, Wyse boots SUSE so should work with some fiddling). As a side note, I have had a lot of fun with thin clients in the past few years due to a variety of interesting x86 architectures (AMD Geode, Transmeta Efficeon, VIA Nano) each with its own little quirks and features (accelerating torrent hash checking and peer handshaking with hardware sha-1 crypto engine and montgomery multiplier on VIA cpu was probably my silliest project).
eloisant 13y ago
Just put a NAS in your network, the thing has gigabyte ethernet.
- sciurus 13y ago
  I already have several ARM devices serving different purposes. I'd like to be able to consolidate some of them.

Too bad there's no connectors for fast external storage, like eSATA or USB 3.

by sciurus 13y ago

Too bad there's no connectors for fast external storage, like eSATA or USB 3.

For general computing purpose (e.g. HTPC + bittorrent + samba), there are always something missing with these small ARM computers. I am holding on to my AMD E-350, especially with the rapid improvement in the radeon driver lately. Gigabyte Brix with AMD Kabini is going to be interesting, and possibly very competitive in pricing without sacrificing performance: http://liliputing.com/2013/06/gigabyte-brix-mini-computer-to-come-in-amd-kabini-intel-haswell-flavors.html http://liliputing.com/2013/06/gigabyte-brix-mini-computer-to...

friism 13y ago
Exactly. What I'm looking for is a board with a reasonably fast CPU (preferably dual core), SATA and a a PCI-E or USB3 port for a fast 802.11n/ac wifi adapter. PogoPlug v4 is almost there, but the CPU is too slow to sustain more than ~40MB/s of I/O.
- ndaugherty18 13y ago
  I preordered this, gigabit lan and sata, http://shop.udoo.org/pre-order/udoo-quad.html http://shop.udoo.org/pre-order/udoo-quad.html
puzzlingcaptcha 13y ago
Wyse and HP will probably refresh their thin client product lines with the new AMD APUs as well. Re-purposing those if you can get them second-hand can be quite cheap and get you the hardware you want (HP has standard BIOS, Wyse boots SUSE so should work with some fiddling). As a side note, I have had a lot of fun with thin clients in the past few years due to a variety of interesting x86 architectures (AMD Geode, Transmeta Efficeon, VIA Nano) each with its own little quirks and features (accelerating torrent hash checking and peer handshaking with hardware sha-1 crypto engine and montgomery multiplier on VIA cpu was probably my silliest project).

eloisant 13y ago

Just put a NAS in your network, the thing has gigabyte ethernet.

sciurus 13y ago
I already have several ARM devices serving different purposes. I'd like to be able to consolidate some of them.