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Really? My Pi managed to corrupt two 128gb cards in 2 years or so. It absolutely happens. I was running light web apps with less than 10 users, hence minimal writes, especially for cards this big
I run a couple Raspberry Pi 2s and they average about 1 SD card a year between them.
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What distro and kernel version are you running on there? The Realtek 2.5G NICs should work natively with a recent kernel.
Funny you ask! I just edited this in, realizing it was relevant. It's quite odd, this is with Fedora -- the current/latest release for about the past year (34 through 36). It's seen quite a healthy number of 5.x kernels, but every time I try to go without I reluctantly have to build it again It'll work fine, for a time, but when I really put stress on that link it'll drop Edit: This is trained at multi-gig too -- goi…
As others have pointed out, the value prop of these boards is running thin. STH covers a bunch of similar products, and this is a tough sell at $165. You can find many similar jasper lake router boards with 4x 2.5 Gbe in a similar price range, but they'll come in a proper case with a power supply.
Topton isn't shipping though. Latest order we made was 2months ago and it was promptly marked as "shipped" but not actually shipped. Customer support just says "please wait dear" and nothing else. Those products you mention will also never reveive any BIOS or firmware updates (including critical security). Speaking from experience with units from 18/19. Hardkernel with their community engagement is a different story.…
The 12V or higher is required only for the 12V rail used power 3.5” SATA drives directly from the board.
I was planning to use Raspberry Pi (which is badly low on stock these days) as my home router with various docker images running but when I figured not all docker images support Arm architecture, I went to look for x86 equivalent and this looked just like what I wanted having dual ethernet not having have to have USB ethernet added which is quite rare.
I had to use DisplayPort instead of HDMI to get the display working and had to use a third party dkms module for officially sold USB Wifi dongle for Ubuntu 22.04 but otherwise it seems to be running good without a gotcha at about 50c or so without a fan.
It costed about $300 including shipping but considering I can get rid of a cloud server that keeps costing me, it'll even out soon enough.
Geekbench gave about 700 single core score which isn't bad for a device that can sit on a palm and having installed Nvme SSD, the disk speed can be quite fast.
Oh boy. I'd buy this instantly if it was AMD. Is there comparable alternative which uses AMD CPU?
ASRock Industrial have a product line but finding resellers can be a challenge. https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4x4
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In addition to the sibling comment, form factor is an advantage, for those looking for a small machine (Mini ITX != Nano ITX; the H* are actually even smaller than Nano-ITX). Hardkernel produces several very interesting boxes for H2 (I suppose also for the H3); I think there were 5 or 6 at the time, for different use cases. There was a very small one that fitted two 2.5" SSDs. They're all ugly, low quality, and tedio…
The cases offer great options, i just wish they also had a pricier case that doesn't look like crap.
This looks like a great chance to ask: Besides the ODROID-Hn series, what other single-board computers have dual ethernet? Very few, AFAICT. For router use-case, the alternatives suggested (buy an older NUC, for instance) don't work.
As others have pointed out, the value prop of these boards is running thin. STH covers a bunch of similar products, and this is a tough sell at $165. You can find many similar jasper lake router boards with 4x 2.5 Gbe in a similar price range, but they'll come in a proper case with a power supply.
Topton isn't shipping though. Latest order we made was 2months ago and it was promptly marked as "shipped" but not actually shipped. Customer support just says "please wait dear" and nothing else. Those products you mention will also never reveive any BIOS or firmware updates (including critical security). Speaking from experience with units from 18/19. Hardkernel with their community engagement is a different story.…
I sort of agree with this, but the bios story is pretty bad everywhere. The good thing about the generic topton type boards is that one can, in principle, run coreboot on them. The protectli ones are similar in spirit. I think there is/was some effort to crowdfund coreboot development for one of these.
Edit: Also, the word on the forums is that topton is just a reseller. CWWK is the odm/oem. You can try ordering from them on aliexpress.
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The cases offer great options, i just wish they also had a pricier case that doesn't look like crap.
H3 case looks good to me. https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-case-type-2/