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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by drpixie »

jamesdhutton wrote: post #800

I am curious to know how people here use their RPIs today, and how the RPI5 might help. I have had a model 3 for many years, which I enjoy tinkering with from time to time. I still haven't gotten over the novelty of having such small, cheap computer that runs Linux and does a pretty good job of it. That said, all I do is tinker with it. I turn it on, write a bit of code, marvel that the code runs, and turn it off. I'…

Three sitting around. They make very convenient small servers. One (a RPi4) has substantial mass storage and is a backup and media server. Another (an RPi3) is an RSS reader service and web proxy for some internal stuff. And the third (RPi3) servers for occasional experiments and what-ifs.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by justin66 »

ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #838
justin66 wrote: post #592

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Someone buying used electronics on eBay has already decided that their time is worthless and the hardware doesn't need to be dependable out of the box. Which is fine, those are decisions a person could make, but it's just disingenuous to compare the value of one thing to another without taking the you are using someone's untested trash factor into account.

That's just silliness. The Raspberry Pi 4 / 5 are made with sub-$60 dollars worth of materials when brand new . You get what you pay for, which is not much and certainly doesn't include dependability. It's a hobbyist and educational plaything whose top design priority is to be low cost. Little 1-liter office PCs from HP/Dell/etc. have MSRP closer to $1000 when new, meaning a correspondingly larger BOM cost, and are b…

I get that you were trying to be edgy, but you landed on goofy. You're addressing someone who owns over a dozen Pis, dating back to the original 256MB Model B. They've been quite dependable for me. It is not something I need to hypothesize about.

The idea that a machine becomes more reliable as the number of parts increases and the cost increases is an interesting one, though.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by dingi »

mattigames wrote: post #701
dingi wrote: post #619

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How about a mini pc with Alder lake N95 with 8g RAM/256g nvme for $120 https://a.aliexpress.com/_mt4AHVM

So double the price for slighly better CPU (3.9GHz turbo speed vs 2.4GHz -or 2.9GHz with OC-, both with 2MB L2 cache), for energy it needs 36W (vs 10W), 2 usb ports (vs 4), no microSD support, and it weights 4 times as much (without including HDD); it does have 256 GB of storage included but for $20 you can get a microSD of the same capacity for the Rpi5 (or 128GB for $10 when that's enough). Yeah, it doesn't look as…

Throw in power adapter, case, and micro sd card for rpi 5. Price difference almost disappears. Do you seriously think that rpi with an sd card going to beat 256gig ssd?

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by alexellisuk »

alexellisuk wrote: post #220

Hi, I've been testing the RPi5 for a few weeks and have written up my results and benchmarks on Twitter. https://x.com/alexellisuk/status/1707296079849365650?s=20 This is so much quicker for clusters, servers and headless use, that I don't think I'd consider buying any more RPi4s myself.

I've published a blog post now, with a bit more info and links to other content on the RPi 5 - https://blog.alexellis.io/first-impressions-with-the-raspber...

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by buzzy_hacker »

jamesdhutton wrote: post #800

I am curious to know how people here use their RPIs today, and how the RPI5 might help. I have had a model 3 for many years, which I enjoy tinkering with from time to time. I still haven't gotten over the novelty of having such small, cheap computer that runs Linux and does a pretty good job of it. That said, all I do is tinker with it. I turn it on, write a bit of code, marvel that the code runs, and turn it off. I'…

I’m using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ to run Steam Link to stream games from my desktop computer upstairs to the TV in the living room. I managed to connect some XBox series controllers to it using Bluetooth by installing xpadneo drivers.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by MrDrMcCoy »

RussianCow wrote: post #845
birdyrooster wrote: post #840

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Meanwhile in reality when nvme drives die in like 6 months… ughhhh

Sorry, can you elaborate? Is the death rate of NVMe drives known to be significantly faster than that of other types of drives? I hadn't heard of this.

I can only speak from my own experience, but there are a number of low to mid grade SSDs that use truly awful flash and/or controllers. I've bought many of them over the years for unimportant workloads, and have been unpleasantly surprised by how quickly I can burn them out. It's really worth it to shell out for higher end models just for the increase in durability.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by james246 »

jamesdhutton wrote: post #800

I am curious to know how people here use their RPIs today, and how the RPI5 might help. I have had a model 3 for many years, which I enjoy tinkering with from time to time. I still haven't gotten over the novelty of having such small, cheap computer that runs Linux and does a pretty good job of it. That said, all I do is tinker with it. I turn it on, write a bit of code, marvel that the code runs, and turn it off. I'…

I'm still using a first gen Raspberry Pi Model B to run an adblocking DNS server (github.com/0xERR0R/blocky), and PiVPN (Wireguard). For the most part, it works great except apt-update occassionally maxing out the CPU/RAM which causes my services and sshd to be killed.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by ant6n »

stkdump wrote: post #143

No word on price. When Raspberry Pi first launched, this was the prime feature of the thing. Can we expect same price as the Raspberry Pi 4? (at the respective RAM level) Edit: found it here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/ So the 4 GB model is 60$, which is 5$ more than the 4 GB model of the Raspberry 4 when that was launched: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-.…

„ PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals“

I wanna see somebody hook up a GeForce card over to that 1x pci express. Play some Crysis using Box86.

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