[colug-432] small linux hardware

Fri Apr 12 02:07:37 EDT 2019

I've heard good things about friends doing projects with Alpine64

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:22 PM Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jeff- that Khadas Vim has some really impressive specs!  If I had
> extra cash that would be on my "buy it now" list for sure.  The Atomic
> Pi that I linked to has somewhat the same specs as the Basic model
> Vim, but it's x86-64, and it's a little bigger.  (The Atomic Pi has a
> 4 core 1.2GHz Atom, 16GB emmc, and 2GB RAM, plus the gigabit Ethernet,
> WiFi and Bluetooth with external antenna connectors.  Its price is
> $39, or $59 when purchased with the handy breakout board.)
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:02 PM Jeff Ricica <jricica2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a Khadas Vim 2 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
> which sounds like exactly what you're looking for in one package. If you
> wanted more than 1 data drive, the Helios 4 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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