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I looked at the alternative ARM boards too, but unfortunately they are only 100Mbps ethernet, which is really slow for a media server :( Any ideas of boards wi

by riobard 13y ago

I looked at the alternative ARM boards too, but unfortunately they are only 100Mbps ethernet, which is really slow for a media server :( Any ideas of boards with gigabit ethernet?

vjoel 13y ago
Yup. Utilite: http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-specifications http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-specifications. Dual GbE, though one is limited to around 470Mbps because of a limitation of the board. I have one. Great specs, but I am not totally happy with the ubuntu 12.04 that comes with it. GCC is broken, for one thing: http://www.utilite-computer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1455&sid=e6fb9102b3a5bdbaa140efa56fbf1507 http://www.utilite-computer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1.... Hoping this gets fixed soon.
codequickly 13y ago
Cubieboard 3 (aka Cubietruck) will do 1gbit as well as 1 sata port.
makomk 13y ago
I think the Cubietruck has it (along with a SATA port), never used one though: http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cubietruck-cubieboard3-cortex-a7-dual-core-2gb-ram-8gb-flash-with-wifi-bt http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cub...
h2o2 13y ago
Some of these have gigabit ethernet and are pretty cheap https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware
joezydeco 13y ago
I'm not using my ARM board as a media server or content renderer, just as an edge gateway much like the OP is. The OP is "sharing media files with Samba to an Android tablet", but if you really need >100mbit to do that, I don't know what to tell you. I'm puzzled by everyone that wants to grind every random cheap SoC into a media server.
voltagex_ 13y ago
I learnt about the IFC6410 board in this thread which seems to have real gigE rather than gigE-via-USB like many other single board computers.
joosters 13y ago
Also worth checking that the hw is good enough to fill a gigabit connection. Many of the cheaper machines (for instance, the WD MyBook World, like in the article) cannot really sustain gigabit disk<->network transfers. The limiting factor is often the CPU or a slow bus connecting the NIC, hard drive and CPU.
- nodata 13y ago
  Some hardware (such as the raspberry pi) has its network speed limited by the usb network adaptor.

by riobard 13y ago

I looked at the alternative ARM boards too, but unfortunately they are only 100Mbps ethernet, which is really slow for a media server :( Any ideas of boards with gigabit ethernet?

vjoel 13y ago

Yup. Utilite: http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-specifications http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-specifications. Dual GbE, though one is limited to around 470Mbps because of a limitation of the board. I have one. Great specs, but I am not totally happy with the ubuntu 12.04 that comes with it. GCC is broken, for one thing: http://www.utilite-computer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1455&sid=e6fb9102b3a5bdbaa140efa56fbf1507 http://www.utilite-computer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1.... Hoping this gets fixed soon.

codequickly 13y ago

Cubieboard 3 (aka Cubietruck) will do 1gbit as well as 1 sata port.

makomk 13y ago

I think the Cubietruck has it (along with a SATA port), never used one though: http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cubietruck-cubieboard3-cortex-a7-dual-core-2gb-ram-8gb-flash-with-wifi-bt http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cub...

h2o2 13y ago

Some of these have gigabit ethernet and are pretty cheap https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware

joezydeco 13y ago

I'm not using my ARM board as a media server or content renderer, just as an edge gateway much like the OP is. The OP is "sharing media files with Samba to an Android tablet", but if you really need >100mbit to do that, I don't know what to tell you. I'm puzzled by everyone that wants to grind every random cheap SoC into a media server.

voltagex_ 13y ago

I learnt about the IFC6410 board in this thread which seems to have real gigE rather than gigE-via-USB like many other single board computers.

joosters 13y ago

Also worth checking that the hw is good enough to fill a gigabit connection. Many of the cheaper machines (for instance, the WD MyBook World, like in the article) cannot really sustain gigabit disk<->network transfers. The limiting factor is often the CPU or a slow bus connecting the NIC, hard drive and CPU.

nodata 13y ago
Some hardware (such as the raspberry pi) has its network speed limited by the usb network adaptor.