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  • defaultdefault Veteran

    For those passionate about tinkering or automation: even though Raspberry Pi is barely obtainable nowadays, there are other cheaper ARM boards out there. One does not need to remain a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider

    @default said:
    For those passionate about tinkering or automation: even though Raspberry Pi is barely obtainable nowadays, there are other cheaper ARM boards out there. One does not need to remain a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation.

    Indeed there are other ARM boards out there but it is hard to find a good board that matches up to the RPi.
    I want to say LTT did a video over that as well.
    IF/WHEN we go to get more boards. We will be looking around at the options.

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  • ShalaWorksShalaWorks Member

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:

    @default said:
    For those passionate about tinkering or automation: even though Raspberry Pi is barely obtainable nowadays, there are other cheaper ARM boards out there. One does not need to remain a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation.

    Indeed there are other ARM boards out there but it is hard to find a good board that matches up to the RPi.
    I want to say LTT did a video over that as well.
    IF/WHEN we go to get more boards. We will be looking around at the options.

    maybe you can consider orange pi 5, it destroys rpi in performance.

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  • NanjaNanja Member

    @ShalaWorks said:

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:

    @default said:
    For those passionate about tinkering or automation: even though Raspberry Pi is barely obtainable nowadays, there are other cheaper ARM boards out there. One does not need to remain a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation.

    Indeed there are other ARM boards out there but it is hard to find a good board that matches up to the RPi.
    I want to say LTT did a video over that as well.
    IF/WHEN we go to get more boards. We will be looking around at the options.

    maybe you can consider orange pi 5, it destroys rpi in performance.

    Could be true, but the MSRP is much higher than the rpi

  • ShalaWorksShalaWorks Member

    @Nanja said:

    @ShalaWorks said:

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:

    @default said:
    For those passionate about tinkering or automation: even though Raspberry Pi is barely obtainable nowadays, there are other cheaper ARM boards out there. One does not need to remain a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation.

    Indeed there are other ARM boards out there but it is hard to find a good board that matches up to the RPi.
    I want to say LTT did a video over that as well.
    IF/WHEN we go to get more boards. We will be looking around at the options.

    maybe you can consider orange pi 5, it destroys rpi in performance.

    Could be true, but the MSRP is much higher than the rpi

    It is almost impossible to find a rpi 4 for less than 100$ in 4GB model. Orange pi 5 can be found for 90$ with the same amount of ram.

  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider

    Still one Pi3B+ available.
    If you going to get it and not pay for it. You will not be getting the service...

  • newlannewlan Member

    again, late

  • defaultdefault Veteran
    edited May 24

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:

    @default said:
    For those passionate about tinkering or automation: even though Raspberry Pi is barely obtainable nowadays, there are other cheaper ARM boards out there. One does not need to remain a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation.

    Indeed there are other ARM boards out there but it is hard to find a good board that matches up to the RPi.
    I want to say LTT did a video over that as well.
    IF/WHEN we go to get more boards. We will be looking around at the options.

    You are absolutely right, but one might not need all the features of a Raspberry Pi.

    Let's take your datacentre as an example: customers do not need WiFi, USB, HDMI, sound, GPIO, camera port, and so on. Your customers just need: CPU + RAM + storage + bandwidth. With this in mind one could reduce costs by looking for a powerful board to use in a datacentre, without all these extra features.

    I can see you allow customers to send you a storage (such as HDD) to plug into USB. I am curious how many customers took this offer so far (sending you their own hardware). This could be regarded as a feedback if it is better to invest in dedicated ARM with client's storage instead of yours.

  • johnlth93johnlth93 Member

    Is it possible to get a trial? Just to test it out with my environment

  • skorupionskorupion Member

    @Nanja said:

    @ShalaWorks said:

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:

    @default said:
    For those passionate about tinkering or automation: even though Raspberry Pi is barely obtainable nowadays, there are other cheaper ARM boards out there. One does not need to remain a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation.

    Indeed there are other ARM boards out there but it is hard to find a good board that matches up to the RPi.
    I want to say LTT did a video over that as well.
    IF/WHEN we go to get more boards. We will be looking around at the options.

    maybe you can consider orange pi 5, it destroys rpi in performance.

    Could be true, but the MSRP is much higher than the rpi

    I have an opi 5 (running with armbian), tho thankfully I got it for half free from someone that I helped with a very specific thing, and all I can say that it's trurlly amazing, will send YABS later on

  • defaultdefault Veteran

  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider
    edited May 24

    @default said:

    That image is far from "cheap". :wink:
    As far as what you saying about just needing CPU/RAM/Storage/Bandwidth.
    I completely agree.
    The million dollar question is what do people really need?? Do they need cheap (newer) CPU or they just looking for something to throw a simple script onto...
    I have always been open to using other ARM CPU types as long as been cost effective. Granted when I got all my RPi's they weren't an (ARM) and a leg.

    You can even ask @lanefu. We been throwing ideas for ARM options around.

  • skorupionskorupion Member

    @skorupion said:

    @Nanja said:

    @ShalaWorks said:

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:

    @default said:
    For those passionate about tinkering or automation: even though Raspberry Pi is barely obtainable nowadays, there are other cheaper ARM boards out there. One does not need to remain a fan of Raspberry Pi Foundation.

    Indeed there are other ARM boards out there but it is hard to find a good board that matches up to the RPi.
    I want to say LTT did a video over that as well.
    IF/WHEN we go to get more boards. We will be looking around at the options.

    maybe you can consider orange pi 5, it destroys rpi in performance.

    Could be true, but the MSRP is much higher than the rpi

    I have an opi 5 (running with armbian), tho thankfully I got it for half free from someone that I helped with a very specific thing, and all I can say that it's trurlly amazing, will send YABS later on

    And here here is the promised YABS:

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-04-23                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Wed May 24 09:06:19 PM CEST 2023

ARM compatibility is considered *experimental*

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 3 hours, 50 minutes
Processor  : Cortex-A55
Cortex-A76
CPU cores  : 8 @ 1800.0000
2400.0000 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 7.5 GiB
Swap       : 3.8 GiB
Disk       : 114.8 GiB
Distro     : Armbian 23.02.2 Jammy
Kernel     : 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Netia SA
ASN        : AS12741 Netia SA
Host       : Netia SA
Location   : Wroclaw, Lower Silesia (02)
Country    : Poland

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 5.34 MB/s     (1.3k) | 15.95 MB/s     (249)
Write      | 5.36 MB/s     (1.3k) | 16.46 MB/s     (257)
Total      | 10.70 MB/s    (2.6k) | 32.42 MB/s     (506)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 26.77 MB/s      (52) | 28.70 MB/s      (28)
Write      | 29.06 MB/s      (56) | 32.02 MB/s      (31)
Total      | 55.83 MB/s     (108) | 60.73 MB/s      (59)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 120 Mbits/sec   | 911 Mbits/sec   | 51.4 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | busy            | busy            | 33.5 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 122 Mbits/sec   | 929 Mbits/sec   | 24.6 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 111 Mbits/sec   | 715 Mbits/sec   | 105 ms         
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 115 Mbits/sec   | 64.3 Mbits/sec  | 112 ms         
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 107 Mbits/sec   | 340 Mbits/sec   | 156 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 107 Mbits/sec   | busy            | 189 ms         

ARM architecture not supported by Geekbench 4, use Geekbench 5 or 6.

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 561                           
Multi Core      | 2477                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/21245388

YABS completed in 10 min 18 sec
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  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider

    @skorupion you on the 4 or 3B+?

  • ShalaWorksShalaWorks Member
    edited May 24

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:
    @skorupion you on the 4 or 3B+?

    Looks like orange pi 5 (non plus version).
    Only RK3588S can reach that gb5 score for less than $100 (in sbc boards)

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    Why discount these if there's no more pi's available to buy? I have no idea how you're making money on this venture... you've got to be subsidizing everyone.

  • skorupionskorupion Member

    @ShalaWorks said:

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:
    @skorupion you on the 4 or 3B+?

    Looks like orange pi 5 (non plus version).
    Only RK3588S can reach that gb5 score for less than $100 (in sbc boards)

    it is indeed orange pi 5 (non plus version)

  • jonathajonatha Member

    out of stock

  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider

    @jonatha said:
    out of stock

    Will have some come at the beginning of the month. I'll make a post here when that comes.

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  • AkhilAkhil Member

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:

    @jonatha said:
    out of stock

    Will have some come at the beginning of the month. I'll make a post here when that comes.

    Will there be any 256GB ones?

  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider

    @Akhil said:

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:

    @jonatha said:
    out of stock

    Will have some come at the beginning of the month. I'll make a post here when that comes.

    Will there be any 256GB ones?

    Can't guarantee. But your always welcome to ship us a thumb drive and we can plug it into your pi.

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  • forfreeiranforfreeiran Member

    out of stock :'(

  • defaultdefault Veteran
    edited June 14

    @DataIdeas-Josh said:
    your always welcome to ship us a thumb drive and we can plug it into your pi.

    This is similar to what I was thinking a few weeks ago: grabbing a RPi 3B+ offer, then buy some used storage drives from Amazon with shipping to your datacenter (I am not from US).

    My problem though is that I don't have any project for a small dedicated server, even though the offer is quite good. Instead of being greedy and let a dedicated server idle, in my opinion it it best for someone else to have it. It is one thing to idle a VPS, but it is a different thing to idle a whole dedicated machine (even if it is a whole RPi); but maybe it's just me and my thoughts.

  • dragonballz2kdragonballz2k Member

    I was wondering is there any restock day coming anytime soon?

  • plumbergplumberg Veteran

    @dragonballz2k said:
    I was wondering is there any restock day coming anytime soon?

    Usually 7th is when the cancellations are processed I believe

  • aliletalilet Member

    Can we host WordPress blogs on RPI? Or is it too slow for that?

  • defaultdefault Veteran

    @alilet said:
    Can we host WordPress blogs on RPI? Or is it too slow for that?

    A small and beautiful blog with a few visitors: yes.

    A huge blog with lots of visitors, plus lots of activity, plus complex plugins... it depends on the load.

  • madunmadun Member

    Oh....I'm late
    When would the stock recovery? Please...
    I love RPi :D

  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider

    @default said:

    @alilet said:
    Can we host WordPress blogs on RPI? Or is it too slow for that?

    A small and beautiful blog with a few visitors: yes.

    A huge blog with lots of visitors, plus lots of activity, plus complex plugins... it depends on the load.

    Would it work if say behind a cloudflare cache?

    @madun restock hopefully early tomorrow.

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  • DataIdeas-JoshDataIdeas-Josh Member, Patron Provider

    All available.

    1 - PIZero
    1 - 3b+
    4 - Pi 4

    Same rules still apply from first post.
    Service is not instant and will be provisioned within 24hrs.
    https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186451/rpiservers-3-14-forever/

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