On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:42:38PM -0700, Bryan wrote:
[ ...snip... ] > > Soekris is really missing out on this I think. As you mention, there is > still demand for the net6501 and nothing really available to replace it. > I think that if the demand were there, someone would have bought the assets from Soren and continued the line. But In this case, I think that our requirements were actually quite specialized. That's why no one replaced Soren. Further, I think that this market will be completely absorbed by Raspberry Pi over the long haul. The Soekris machines are great if you are looking for a relatively large amount of computing power in a low wattage, small form-factor platform. But they fell short on memory capacity and eventually price. I've replaced all of my Soekris Net65xx units with SuperMicro 1U machines that use Intel Atom D525 based motherboards. I did this because the Net65xxs all succumbed to the "Red Light of Death". Used, the D525 units are cheaper than the Net6501 and you can have up to either 8G or 16G of ram at "Best Buy" prices. The machines I have are in Front access 1U chassis that are three times as deep as the Soekris. Stock they don't have the same network density as a Soekris but the motherboard is dual port Intel Gigabit and Intel Gigabit cards cost $20 / port on Amazon in 1x, 2x, and 4x varieties. I don't mean to disrepect the Soekris stuff. In it's day it was awesome but now that the Net6501s have begun to hit the "dying limb of the bathtub curve", there are other options so I'm not going to cry for them. [ ...snip... ] -- -- Chris __o "All I was trying to do was get home from work." _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*)_____________________________________________________________ Christopher Sean Hilton [chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech