16-07-2017, 12:04 AM
I chose the Banana Pi as my "Pi of choice" because it has a SATA port and on that I have
a REAL SATA hard disk and on my other BPi, an SSD.
And for Linux flavour, Fedora is, by far the best with support for all types of ARM boards.
I've just built a BPi with a 2Tb disk and a Ubuntu linux 16.04. But, I can't upgrade the kernel.
And, it gave no way to support any other ARM boards. Also, I couldn't move the whole "root"
filesystem to the SATA disk.
Software
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I've had excellent success building MSHV for Meteor Scatter.
But WSJT-X is far too CPU hungry to run well.
I've been using the Banana Pi from it's early days, getting on three years now.
Yes I have a Raspberry Pi but only the 256Mb memory version. It's useless.
The SD cards wore out in days or weeks. That's why I say, "SATA disk or forget it".
As a super-low power Linux system with reasonable webserver performance, it can't be beaten.
For MMDVM, the Banana Pi, 128Gb SSD and Arduino DUE, total current drain 0.55A at 5V.
That's 2.5W!!
Alan VK2ZIW
a REAL SATA hard disk and on my other BPi, an SSD.
And for Linux flavour, Fedora is, by far the best with support for all types of ARM boards.
I've just built a BPi with a 2Tb disk and a Ubuntu linux 16.04. But, I can't upgrade the kernel.
And, it gave no way to support any other ARM boards. Also, I couldn't move the whole "root"
filesystem to the SATA disk.
Software
=======
I've had excellent success building MSHV for Meteor Scatter.
But WSJT-X is far too CPU hungry to run well.
I've been using the Banana Pi from it's early days, getting on three years now.
Yes I have a Raspberry Pi but only the 256Mb memory version. It's useless.
The SD cards wore out in days or weeks. That's why I say, "SATA disk or forget it".
As a super-low power Linux system with reasonable webserver performance, it can't be beaten.
For MMDVM, the Banana Pi, 128Gb SSD and Arduino DUE, total current drain 0.55A at 5V.
That's 2.5W!!
Alan VK2ZIW