[colug-432] small linux hardware

[Jeff Ricica]

I have a Khadas Vim 2 <https://www.khadas.com/vim> that's a similar form
factor to the Pi but has more RAM and the ethernet bus doesn't share its IO
with the USB bus so performance would likely be better. I'll have to find
it but I'd probably be willing to part ways with it if you're interested.
It runs several different distros of Linux as well as Android TV or Android
OS and LibreELEC and can even be triple booted.

Outside of that, a very popular option would have to be the Odroid HC2
<https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/> which sounds
like exactly what you're looking for in one package. If you wanted more
than 1 data drive, the Helios 4 <https://kobol.io/helios4/> is a great
option that will support up to 4 drives but looks like there's a wait list
at the moment as they only manufacture once they have a certain number of
guaranteed orders.

-Jeff

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:10 PM Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you search on Amazon for "fanless industrial PC" you'll find TONS
> of little systems you could use for that.  A unit with quad core AMD,
> 2G RAM, and 32G SSD runs about $150.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/slredirect/picassoRedirect.html/ref=pa_sp_mtf_aps_sr_pg1_2?ie=UTF8&adId=A051461335BBCWLEXPDFW&url=%2FIndustrial-Personal-Computer-Aluminum-1000Mbps%2Fdp%2FB07D14Z7GT%2Fref%3Dsr_1_28_sspa%3Fcrid%3D34YH7YU7U2HLH%26keywords%3Dfanless%2Bindustrial%2Bpc%26qid%3D1555026934%26s%3Dgateway%26sprefix%3Dfanless%2Bin%252Caps%252C178%26sr%3D8-28-spons%26psc%3D1&qualifier=1555026934&id=6233116189927769&widgetName=sp_mtf
>
> Here is something else to consider.  (Note that if you're not
> comfortable doing basic wiring, you should get the version with the
> breakout board.  Having said that, it is a somewhat frequent
> occurrence to see the version without the breakout board in the
> MicroCenter "Open Box" bin at $32.  The wiring really is not that
> difficult.)
> https://www.microcenter.com/product/603770/atomic-pi
>
> Having said that... there are ways around the "RasPi kills SD cards"
> issue.  Essentially, you just put /var and /tmp in a RAM disk, and set
> the root filesystem to remove the journal.  I have details in a blog
> post here:
> https://www.joshuapk.net/2019/02/18/how-stop-killing-sd-cards-raspi/
>
> I've been running HomeAssistant under CentOS 7 on a RasPi 3B+ for a
> while.  Average SD card life was about 2 months, but after I did the
> tricks noted above things seem to have been much better- that was 6
> months ago.
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 7:09 PM Rick Hornsby <rhornsby at ktzr.net> wrote:
> >
> > TL;DR - Looking for recommendations for small, low-power (really, low
> heat) Linux hardware. 1 core, 1GB of memory would be enough. I just want to
> run a personal nextcloud server on it. RaspberryPi-level power is
> acceptable, but that's been tried. Buy or build, either is fine. Would like
> to keep the cost low, since it won’t be doing much.
> >
> > --
> >
> > For the last few months, I’ve been running Nextcloud and it’s been
> great. It’s more flexible than Dropbox (I can exclude file types, etc),
> doesn’t have fees or size restrictions, and I control all of the data.
> There are some downsides - I’m solely responsible for the server
> maintenance and application security, but I think those are fair
> trade-offs. It has let me do things like seamlessly switch between my
> laptop and desktop systems, by being able to exclude the IDE metadata.
> >
> > I’ve been running it on a Pi, but that’s over. I went do to an OS update
> a couple of days ago and it barfed all over itself. That’s the third time a
> Pi put into long-term use has gone tango uniform. It’s a great platform,
> but not for long-term stuff - at least not without setting up the SD card
> as r/o and using a more appropriate/durable r/w storage medium. The first
> two died because of irreparable
> >  filesystem corruption (fsck), and the third doesn’t seem to be that,
> but the OS is unbootable and unrecoverable. (The nextcloud data was on a
> separate disk, not on the SD card.)
> >
> > I’m started to set up Nextcloud on Dreamcompute (AWS-like, will run
> around $9/month), but then I thought “why? I’m paying a buttload for a
> business interwebs connection at home.” I’m used to building full-tower
> setups, so the other extreme of the market isn’t nearly as familiar to me.
> Really, the only other requirement is to be able to attach a bit of
> external storage - one drive via USB is enough - to it.
> >
> > Thoughts or suggestions?
> >
> > thanks!
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