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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It is so weird to have a home server
board that doesn't have sata ports, one of the older cubieturck
boards is better equipped for this task because it has gigabit
ethernet and a sata port, though throughput is limited to 40MB/s.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">As for Hugh's note for the connector --
it looks like a standard JST 2-pin connector. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Technically you don't need to solder
connectors because they are crimped, but this is a technicality. I
have a crimper if anyone interested in making their own power
supply out of usb cable.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Here's someone connecting it to power
-- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/drunknbass/status/1158054016397393920?s=21">https://twitter.com/drunknbass/status/1158054016397393920?s=21</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This connector is compatible with
dupont connector, for which I also have a crimper. More
practically any electronics store would have the cable, or
something like this connected to a 3A 5V power supply will do the
job --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1W1culKOSBuNjy0Fdq6zDnVXaM/Dupont-head-to-USB-PC-Fan-Power-Cable-Adapter-Connector-22cm.jpg">https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1W1culKOSBuNjy0Fdq6zDnVXaM/Dupont-head-to-USB-PC-Fan-Power-Cable-Adapter-Connector-22cm.jpg</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The price is really great, but I'm not
going to buy it because I have a similarly-spec'd cromebook that I
can retire for the same role.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-09-16 1:39 p.m., Stewart
Russell via talk wrote:<br>
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12:30 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, <<a
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just assumed that it was some surplus board that was<br>
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<div dir="auto">It is. It's from a home server thing that
bankrupted the developer before they got to market. Once
they're gone, they're gone. </div>
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<div dir="auto">While it may not be as fast as eMMC, the
Raspberry Pi 4 does have a faster connection to microSD (with
the right card). It also has DDR4 which makes it fairly
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<div dir="auto">I wrote a preso last week on a 4 GB <span
style="font-family:sans-serif">Raspberry Pi 4 (over VNC,
even) and it didn't feel like an SBC at all. I hear that
the </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Raspberry Pi
4 is somewhat unexpectedly picking up corporate sales as a
cheap dual-screen thin client. </span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Cheers</span></div>
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