[GTALUG] "Atom Pi"

[Alex Volkov]

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.

As for Hugh's note for the connector -- it looks like a standard JST 
2-pin connector.
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.

Here's someone connecting it to power -- 
https://twitter.com/drunknbass/status/1158054016397393920?s=21

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 -- 
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1W1culKOSBuNjy0Fdq6zDnVXaM/Dupont-head-to-USB-PC-Fan-Power-Cable-Adapter-Connector-22cm.jpg

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.

Alex.

On 2019-09-16 1:39 p.m., Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
> On Mon., Sep. 16, 2019, 12:30 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, 
> <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     ... I just assumed that it was some surplus board that was
>     being blown out.  Maybe it is.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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 quick.
>
> I wrote a preso last week on a 4 GB Raspberry Pi 4 (over VNC, even) 
> and it didn't feel like an SBC at all.  I hear that the Raspberry Pi 4 
> is somewhat unexpectedly picking up corporate sales as a cheap 
> dual-screen thin client.
>
> Cheers
>  Stewart
>
>
>
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