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A NVMe compatible M.2 M Key connector (like the Rock 5 Model B [0] has) would have been really nice. I'm starting to accumulate old but good, yet small in storage space terms NVMe's which I'm no longer needing, but which would be perfect for a Raspi. Even if the PCIe bus were an older generation and not as performant as the NVMe. The microSD card slot is really great to have, to get up-and-running, but once it's clea…
A NVMe compatible M.2 M Key connector (like the Rock 5 Model B [0] has) would have been really nice. I'm starting to accumulate old but good, yet small in storage space terms NVMe's which I'm no longer needing, but which would be perfect for a Raspi. Even if the PCIe bus were an older generation and not as performant as the NVMe. The microSD card slot is really great to have, to get up-and-running, but once it's clea…
Rasbperry Pis are losing their competitive edge for non-embedded applications to sub $150 mini PCs, which support Linux/Windows and will come with enclosure, NVMe slot, power button etc. The mini PCs are also generally much faster.
Where can I find these mini PCs? I am trying to find hardware for an upcoming project and I’m considering the Pi but would love to see some alternatives.
TBH the thing I hate most about this category of SBC is the reliance on SD cards. They are both too unreliable to trust and so slow that they often bottleneck the SBC. Buying them is often a crap shoot too, I've purchased cards batches of cards from the supposed reputable manufacturers that were all over the board when benchmarked, and rarely did they hit the claimed speed spec. I would love if there was an alternati…
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The worst part about it is they require a nonstandard, USB-C standard-violating proprietary power brick that does 5V5A. None of your 100W Anker or Apple power bricks will supply this. They'll do 12V3A, 12V5A, 20V5A, but not 5V5A. Yet another piece of nonstandard USB-C equipment.
> When using a standard 5V, 3A (15W) USB-C power adapter with Raspberry Pi 5, by default we must limit downstream USB current to 600mA to ensure that we have sufficient margin to support these workloads. This is lower than the 1.2A limit on Raspberry Pi 4, though generally still sufficient to drive mice, keyboards, and other low‑power peripherals. This is also very uncool, since powering it through the GPIO header wi…
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Yeah my intel atom NUCs run at 5W idle and 10W load and they're a ton faster than a pi 4. Probably a pi 5 too. It's not very impressive. And that's with a real SSD.
NUCs cost hundreds of dollars, though. And they are probably 8x bigger, if you start stacking Pis.
https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-Intel-N100-Computer-Desktop-D...
Faster processor, 16GB RAM, 500GB NVME SSD, with case. $165! That’s damn impressive, considering the RPi5 with 8GB RAM is suggested to sell for $80 (good luck getting it for that little). And Amazon can get it to me in two days.
Yeah it’s definitely bigger, but I wasn’t expecting these systems to be so cheap.
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I have about 10 unused Raspberry Pis, so I collected unused monitors as well, and now run a mini code club in my local school. The school's laptops are all locked down to the point that running Python on them that this was the easiest way to provide a Python dev environment.
Why does everyone choose Python for that? Maybe a weird question for HN, but I still have no idea.
Of course, that begs the question "how did that ecosystem develop in the first place?", but I can't answer that.
TBH the thing I hate most about this category of SBC is the reliance on SD cards. They are both too unreliable to trust and so slow that they often bottleneck the SBC. Buying them is often a crap shoot too, I've purchased cards batches of cards from the supposed reputable manufacturers that were all over the board when benchmarked, and rarely did they hit the claimed speed spec. I would love if there was an alternati…
FWIW, I boot my Pis almost exclusively from USB. Not that that's... great in terms of speed or reliability, but it's something.
Combined with a portable LCD, it's a low-power dev workstation on a battery. ^_^
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I may be completely off base here, but maybe the rpi wasn't the best tool for the project then? What was it, if I may ask?
I mean, I'd be curious what you'd have suggested! We needed it to be small, low power, low heat, provide hardware level access to a camera module, be ethernet accessible. Oh, and under $100 including a fixed M-mount lens. At the time, it didn't seem like rolling our own hardware would have been faster. I would argue - given we succeeded at sub 1ms syncronization - that the Pi was close to the perfect tool. It just wo…
I'm happy that they're upgrading the pi, but it's not exactly lightweight computing in terms of power (they recommend a 27W PSU) or performance/watt (see: your cell phone) To me the charm of the raspi ecosystem was always in giving you a very low power, "always on, almost no power draw" linux environment. Oh well, I guess there's always the older versions or the zero for that.
Did you read the blog post? :) "Raspberry Pi 5 consumes significantly less power, and runs significantly cooler, than Raspberry Pi 4 when running an identical workload. However, the much higher performance ceiling means that for the most intensive workloads, and in particular for pathological “power virus” workloads, peak power consumption increases to around 12W, versus 8W for Raspberry Pi 4."