> On 12 Dec 2019, at 17:31, Lucio De Re <lucio.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd like suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost > certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service). > Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always. > > Ideally, storage is where the value will reside, the actual processor > could be expendable. > > ARM would allow me to start with Richard Miller's release, which I > believe to be a very sound foundation. > > Thanks for any and all comments.
This is very likely overkill, but https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/ <https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/> https://www.chip1stop.com/USA/en/product/detail?partId=SOCI-0000003&mpn=SC0FQAA-B-000 <https://www.chip1stop.com/USA/en/product/detail?partId=SOCI-0000003&mpn=SC0FQAA-B-000> It’s a µATX PC-style motherboard, with what looks like standard PC power connector. It has a 24-core ARM8 CPU, up to 64GB RAM (4 DIMM slots), onboard 1 Gbps Ethernet, looks like two on-board SATA ports, and (most usefully) 1 PCIe x16 and 2 PCIe x1 slots. You could populate the x16 PCIe slot with an M.2 carrier board, like https://amfeltec.com/pci-express-gen-3-carrier-board-for-m-2-ssd <https://amfeltec.com/pci-express-gen-3-carrier-board-for-m-2-ssd> to give you a decent amount of high-speed SSD storage? The motherboard appears to have been sponsored by Linaro, which is some sort of Linux-on-ARM booster organisation, so it’s likely got decent documentation and/or sample drivers available. d ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tfa3a09b0e78ea56b-M15c6b2447299720cacbf368e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
