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ODROID-H4 - A Compact Alder Lake N-Series SBC with up to dual 2.5GbE and four SATA III ports (www.cnx-software.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's a lot of heatsink

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot of heat to sink.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is why it's #ARMMasterRace

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looks like it's designed to not need a fan

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fanless machines are about to have their day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Looking forward to it. My GPU is sooo fucking loud.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

After having been burned on crappy software support on rockchip devices, I think this will take over for my TV box.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've used the RockPi-S for a project a while ago. The software to write to the on-board storage was in Chinese and didn't seem to have a way to use English. I had to hold my phone with Google Translate in front of the screen to navigate around it, although that might have been the least unintuitive part of the software. The alternative cli-software refused to compile at first and then refused to use the forwarded USB device. I ended up booting Fedora on my work laptop just to run it.

I recommend trying out Armbian if you still have problems with it. The images provided by them are significantly more reliable, I haven't had any issues, while some official images failed to boot. Also avoid the models with on-board storage, just use an SD card, it really isn't worth the hassle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I run Armbian on my Radxa devices! A huge life saver.

I use a Rock 5B with an Android TV image for my TV box, but it is janky at best. I'd run an Armbian desktop release of I could, but HDMI is broken on all of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I don't need to upgrade my NAS....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The N100 has a 6.4% lower passmark score than the N97 in the base model ($99). This seems like a good competitor to those Topton motherboards from Aliexpress (~$160) that are so common in DIY NAS builds. Most of these CPUs don't have enough PCIe lanes to service all physical connectors, this is solved by using chips that split the lanes over multiple connectors. However, some chips/layouts cause problems with C-states or reduced bandwidth. Does someone know if that is the case here?

EDIT: The normal model doesn't have any SATA connectors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Cant wait for the review on explainingcomputers.com 🤓