Milk-V Goes After the Raspberry Pi Compute Module4 with RISC-V Alternative

https://www.hackster.io/news/milk-v-goes-after-the-raspberry-pi-compute-module-4-with-a-pin-compatible-risc-v-alternative-77cdb3e6c6f1

by niel1 • 3 years ago

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digikata3• 3 years ago

PCIe gen2 x1 lane, aww I was hoping that there was an accessible low-power home NAS motherboard.

rf15• 3 years ago

what's specifically preventing it from becoming just that?

digikata3• 3 years ago

Well in general you probably want to be able to hook anywhere from 2-8 drives to to a mini NAS. There seems to be sufficient cpu and Ethernet, but it seems to have no SATA ports, nor does it have say 4-16 lanes of gen3 or 4 Pcie available for either a multiport sata or nvme expander.

brucehoult2• 3 years ago

That's exactly what the Raspberry Pi CM4 has [1]. This board is designed to be as compatible as possible with the CM4.

The JH7110 SoC that is on the board has more and faster PCIe lanes than that. If you want to access them natively then get a standard board with that SoC, such as the StarFive VisionFive 2 (brings it out to M.2 M key), Pine64 Star64 (brings it out to a standard PCIe connector), or Milk-V Mars (M.2 E key).

The Milk-V Mars [2] with the same 2 GB RAM is only $5 more and and you get a gig ethernet socket, 3x USB3 & 1x USB2 sockets, a full size HDMI socket, eMMC slot, Micro SD slot, 40 pin GPIO header.

[1] https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/cm4/cm4-datasheet.pdf

[2] https://arace.tech/products/milk-v-mars

8jef• 3 years ago

I've ordered both this risk-v cm4, and the Radxa Taco, which has 5 x sata + 1 nvme. Can't wait to test this.

1MachineElf• 3 years ago

Good! There are too many cool Raspberry Pi CM4 boards out there, but way too little CM4s to populate them.

Milk-V Goes After the Raspberry Pi Compute Module4 with RISC-V Alternative

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