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| From | Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> |
|---|---|
| Organization | Deepwoods Software |
| Subject | Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? |
| References | <8075bab7-5a1d-4d02-8ad0-04eb307a289d@googlegroups.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Message-ID | <n8idndZuc-MjbjbInZ2dnUU7-cmdnZ2d@giganews.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2015-07-19 14:00 -0500 |
At Sun, 19 Jul 2015 10:54:02 -0700 (PDT) pureheart@pacbell.net wrote:
>
> Hi.
> After reading up a bit on the Raspberry Pi, single board computer, I wonder if anyone is using such a thing as their daily machine and how it fares, if so.
>
> There end up to be a *lot* of SBC's out there, but specifically, I'm thinking about some like:
> Raspberry Pi 2
> Banana pi
> Beaglebone Black
> Hummingboard
>
> One of these with a solid state drive (I assume that's what SATA means in
> the specs of all these things....a drive connector....I'm way behind on my
> acroynyms and still don't know what DPMI stands for w/o a look at a search
> engine).
No, SATA can be either a solid state drive, like I have in my laptop, or a
rotating magnetic drive, like I have in my desktop. Both my laptop and desktop
have SATA interfaces. SATA means Serial ATA, as opposed to PATA, which means
Parallel ATA, which is also known as IDE. SATA is the successor to PATA (IDE)
and is sort of a 'merger'/successor of SCSI, SAS, and IDE technologies.
(Note: it is possible to get IDE SSDs as well as SATA SSDs.)
The Raspberry Pi uses a Class 10 micro SD card as a hard drive. The micro SD
card is a ultra small variation of a SD "Flash" card, which is a mini version
of the (old) Compact Flass (CF) card. All of these are (more or less) a
technology similar to USB Thumb/Flash drives. They are a form of solid state
mass storage device (something like a 'SSD' type device).
>
> Any comments?
Note that *for all intents and purposes* any modern ATX, MiniATX, or MiniITX
motherboard is *effectively* a SBC, since the days of motherboards that only
had the processor and bus logic, where it was manditory to buy a video card,
sound card, disk controller card, and network card, are long gone. Modern
motherboards have all of the common functions integrated: video, sound, disk
controller, and network, along with things like USB and any other incidental
I/O devices (PS/2, serial and parallel ports, IEEE1394, etc.). I guess that
these motherboards do have some sort of expansion slots and the presumption is
that some people will overbuild the integrated devices, while little SBCs like
the Raspberry Pi, et. al. don't have expansion slots and it is not expected
that on-board integrated devices will be overbuilt.
*I* use a Raspberry Pi 2 as a build box on my LAN. I use a 'conventional'
desktop system for my everyday desktop use. I don't normally connect a
monitor or keyboard/mouse to the Pi.
>
> pH
>
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