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Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by steevdave »

paulcarroty wrote: post #157
Medox wrote: post #46

Depending on the purpose, for example if somebody just wants a compact home cloud, the Odroid HC2 could also - still - be considered: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/ - Half the RAM but double the cores. I'm waiting for some benchmarks to see if the RPi4 is faster and by how much. - Also Gigabit Ethernet and it works great. My downloads are always at 108-111MB/s for the whole transfer. - Not…

> the Odroid HC2 could also - still - be considered Even don't think about it - shitty support from vendor. They don't care about updates in general.

Are you sure? I've worked with a myriad of ARM devices, and I would say that despite their small size, Hardkernel are one of the most responsive companies when I have had issues.

I say that as both a Gentoo and Kali ARM dev

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by venugopal113 »

cyberjunkie wrote: post #3

Oh my! This is such a crazy upgrade. I've been using the RPI2 as my HTPC/NAS at my folks, and I'm so happy with it. I was itching to get the last one for myself. USB 3.0! Gigabit Ethernet! WiFi 802.11ac, BT 5.0, 4GB RAM! 4K! $55 at most?! What the!? How the??! I know I'm not maintaining decorum at Hacker News, but I am SO mighty, MIGHTY excited! I'm setting up a VPN to hook this (when I get it) to my VPS and then do…

True..

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by tiernano »

bastards! just bought 2 pi 3 model B+ a couple weeks back (still in their box too) and now this... Welp... back to ordering a few of these! man, thats some upgrade!

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by rarecoil »

MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #135

The book 'kubernetes up and running' had a description on how to set up a kubernetes cluster out of raspberry pies. I guess a setup with the new pies would look a bit more real.

I have a PicoCluster 3S [1] kit I bought to make a clean Kubernetes cluster. I just ordered 3 4GB RPi 4s for it. I'm very excited. I use an ODROID-C2 as a home server for most tasks, and while the ARM cores are sufficiently fast, with some work I run out of memory and swap a lot. I will test to see if one of these could be a suitable replacement vs. an ODROID-XU4/XU4Q.

[1] https://www.picocluster.com/collections/pico-3/products/pico...

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by lloeki »

jonhendry18 wrote: post #141
vardump wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Missing: SD card performance benchmark. Previous models could only read about 20 MB/s or so, while the modern SD cards can do 10x (maybe even more) that. Is there any improvement in this? It's pretty important as RPi usually boots off it.

You can boot off a USB drive.

IIRC bootloader and kernel have to be on SD card so you always boot from there but can easily pivot to the USB drive for the root partition.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by vardump »

waterhouse wrote: post #178
rbanffy wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to see other interesting $35 SBCs with reasonable performance.

You might check out the NanoPi Fire3, which I think came out in early 2018: https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&... Has an eight -core 1.4GHz CPU, and is otherwise mostly comparable to the new Pi: 1G RAM, 1Gb ethernet. Has an SD card slot and no built-in storage.

8 slow in-order A53 cores. I'd much rather take RPi4's four wide out-of-order A72 cores.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by rekoil »

eemil wrote: post #184
Moxdi wrote: post #31

No normal sized HDMI sucks, I don't want to buy another adapter, aside from that this looks really cool, can't wait to get one

I agree. No idea why they went with micro-hdmi, when mini displayport is more robust, more common, and royalty-free.

Exactly, you can solve the dual-display problem via daisy-chaining a couple of DisplayPort monitors instead. Using Micro HDMI was a bad decision in my opinion.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by dingaling »

PakG1 wrote: post #74

Gigabit Ethernet? I'm tempted to grab a few and try running Pi-Hole for my whole organization (~1200 users) and see how that goes. :) I know you can set up Pi-Hole on Ubuntu VMs. But there's something so attractive to me about running it separate from your hypervisors and closer to the core switch on very very cheap hardware.... Been curious about Pi-Hole on my bigger work scale for a while, this may very well tip me…

Pi-Hole is a wrapper around dnsmasq, so you could just run that on your base OS with the same configuration files. Add gravity.sh if you want automated blocklist updating:

https://lowendbox.com/blog/host-your-own-dns-now-with-100-mo...

If you already have an available server there's no need to spin up a VM to host another OS instance just to run native software...

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by rahuldottech »

Avernar wrote: post #154

Are there better options for $35? I'm fine with the seller being an unknown Chinese company.

There really aren't. There's a reason RasPi is so popular. The level quality and also that of the support out there is unmatched.

If you have a RasPi and are facing an issue, a quick web search will almost certainly find you the solution.

With an unknown low quality board? You're on your own.

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