Finding an SBC

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by jandeboevrie • 4 years ago

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Good idea. I've been looking for something like this for a bit. Nice to see the Star64 already included.

One big problem I ran into while using the Pi a few years ago is that the USB bus was shared with Ethernet bus and it caused massive problems for anyone doing anything intensive with either of those. I wish I could filter out issues like that without having to do a deep-dive on each SBC before purchasing (I noticed at least one more SBC on the list I've had hardware issues with).

MartijnBraam3• 4 years ago

Defining shared busses is not an easy thing to solve though sadly. ideally you can just get a nice block diagram for each board but we also don't have the data for that.

TheWoodsy• 4 years ago

Oh man. The single deciding parameter that I'm looking for is not populated. Ethernet speed.

cr3ative• 4 years ago

And then you have "negotiated speed" vs. "realisable speed" when the bus it sits on is slower. Great fun!

MartijnBraam3• 4 years ago

I have the data, just need to figure out how to filter it nicely. A bit annoying if you have a board with 5 ports with different speeds

treffer• 4 years ago

I like geizhals.eu for these things.

Ethernet ports >= 0,1,2,...

10Base-T ports >= ....

You end up with quite a few filters, but it gives full flexibility to search for e.g 5 1GBit ports with 1 10Gbit sfp+ port.

ethanpil• 4 years ago

Would love to see some benchmarks listed for each CPU as well. so I can filter by functions and then compare performance.

Another useful data point would be OS support and availability - official and/or community versions, last release date, number of releases, etc.

MartijnBraam3• 4 years ago

That would require doing benchmarks for all the boards though, which is problematic since I don't have all the boards

squarefoot• 4 years ago

Great resource; it would be nice if each board record could be updated with a list of the sellers, each one with stock and prices. That could be a service many sellers would probably pay a small quid for, ultimately helping to support the site.

Also, take a look at the following list, which is updated at least yearly.

https://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-136-open-spec-community-b...

Snoozus• 4 years ago

The main filter I'm missing is whether one can actually buy a board or if it's out of stock.

_zfxr• 4 years ago

So helpful ty.

bpye• 4 years ago

I wish ARM hardware was more standard. You can take essentially any x86 machine, install a generic Linux, *BSD, Windows, etc image on it, and expect most hardware to work - sometimes audio is a bit weird in my experience. It feels like we're still far from that with ARM.

salawat• 4 years ago

Neat! May try grabbing a few things to add to my "podunk, heterogenous compute cluster that I'll probably snap and try to make a scheduler for some day...

Peer_to_Peer• 4 years ago

Thanks, this could be really helpful.

A couple things I noticed:

- Keyword search appears to only look at model. For example searching for "Nvidia" returns no results but searching for "Jetson" does.

- Clicking the "None (409)" option in the Form Factor filter returns no results. Perhaps that's because the form factor is listed as "Unknown" on their individual pages.

Finding an SBC

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