On Monday 14 December 2015 16:16:26 suechtla wrote: > Hi, > > I read the article about the PiDrive and like to contribute a bit. > > As I am studying electronics and interested in IT and networking stuff, I > am familiar with software development and its problems. Unfortunatly I do > not like writing code. My contributions are looking towards hardware and > networking. > Actually I am using ownCloud on a standard x86 server, installed via the > ubuntu-packages, without any special config. That is everything i had to do > with ownCloud up to now. A typical user :D > > Nevertheless I want to share my opinion concerning the PiDrive: > > First of all I have a raspberry pi and a few colleagues also have one, I > discovered huge problem with them: our raspberry pi's are eating SD cards, > especially by power out-takes! > If I would be a user of this device, I do not want to search for the > problem and/or buy a new SD card, because my children occasionally pulled > out the powerplug.
Yes, the SD Card can and has to be ONLY used for the bootloader. The OS and esp the database have to be on the hard drive. > Secondly, the raspberry pi has a bottleneck, its 100Mbit ethernet and its > USB port. The CPU has only one USB-Host port and everything, including > ethernet and the HDD data has to go thought this. As of today HDDs (and of > course SSDs) are much faster than these interfaces. Yes, performance is limited. But the PI is very popular and that, in itself, is a big advantage: a lot of knowledge, a lot of optimization, everybody knows it etc. So for the first round (prototypes plus the first few hundred devices) we will go for a Raspberry. For after that - we can probably move to something better, faster etc. We have looked at the Banana Pi, for example, and there's more of course. Heck, I actually think that the 2nd batch should probably strive to be on a 64bit chip and those boards still need to come on the market (at a reasonable price) ;-) > As a conclusion it would be great if there is a second platform (or the RPi > is replaced by another SBC). An example would be a platform from > hardkernel/ODROID. Those guys supply SBCs with GBit ethernet, eMMC and USB3 > options. The USB3 variant called ODROID-XU4 looks great to me. > > > Finally, I just want to make clear, that I will not write any code, as I do > not have the right skills and time to do this. Therefore I am not applying > for the challenge. > > I just want to share and discuss my opinions and maybe act as a beta tester > for the system. Still valuable, keep talking and thinking! > Greetings and good luck everybody! > > David -- Disclaimer: Everything I do and say is based on my view of the world today. I am not responsible for changes in the world, nor my view on it. Everything I say is meant in a positive and friendly way, unless explicitly stated otherwise. find me on blog.jospoortvliet.com
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