https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1 Always lovely to see this happening.
This is cool but a shame that they didnt contact Luke for using something like the a20 or wait for the rk3388 so we could have more money leverage on the soc and common ICs or even turn this into an eoma housing. On May 5, 2017 8:54 AM, "Allan Mwenda" allanitomwesh@gmail.com wrote:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1 Always lovely to see this happening.
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On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
This is cool but a shame that they didnt contact Luke for using something like the a20 or wait for the rk3388 so we could have more money leverage on the soc and common ICs or even turn this into an eoma housing.
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/MediaTek_MT7621
that's a *really* specialist SoC, with USB3, PCIe, 5x GbE and specialist hardware for optimised throughput on routing tables *and* hardware-level accelerated crypto.
PCIe could be used to connect NVMe, or, as appears to be the case here, a PCIe bridge plus SATA.
so it's a great choice of SoC, that doesn't fit into EOMA68 (or EOMA200 for that matter, as it lacks video output).
l.
This is cool but a shame that they didnt contact Luke for using something like the a20 or wait for the rk3388 so we could have more money leverage on
The A20 comes with only 1 SATA port (and no other fast port, like PCIe or USB3) and it somehow saturates at 50MB/s when writing, so it's a poor choice for a NAS in general (it's usable, but not great). The RK3388 doesn't even have SATA so it's an even worse choice for a NAS.
Stefan
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Stefan Monnier monnier@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
This is cool but a shame that they didnt contact Luke for using something like the a20 or wait for the rk3388 so we could have more money leverage on
The A20 comes with only 1 SATA port (and no other fast port, like PCIe or USB3) and it somehow saturates at 50MB/s when writing, so it's a poor choice for a NAS in general (it's usable, but not great). The RK3388 doesn't even have SATA so it's an even worse choice for a NAS.
yehyeh - they're not designed for server-level applications, which is great... because EOMA68 is not designed for server-level applications either :)
honestly the router market being so saturated and also low-cost-focussed (and specialist) i can't really imagine there being even a *need* for a standards-driven design.
i am however going to be doing an EOMA68 router again: it will be using the QCA9531. i'll start a new thread about this.
l.
The A20 comes with only 1 SATA port (and no other fast port, like PCIe or USB3) and it somehow saturates at 50MB/s when writing, so it's a poor choice for a NAS in general (it's usable, but not great). The RK3388 doesn't even have SATA so it's an even worse choice for a NAS.
yehyeh - they're not designed for server-level applications, which is great... because EOMA68 is not designed for server-level applications either :)
FWIW, I'm using an A20 as a small router+NAS+server and am very satisfied with it: the limited SATA speed is never the bottleneck since I connect to it over wifi on one side (where competition with neighbors and in-house obstacles means I rarely get over 2MB/s) and over DSL on the other (and here in Canada, DSL speeds haven't changed much over the last 10 years).
But for a "dedicated" NAS box that can hold up to 6 disks, an A20 would be a rather odd choice.
Stefan
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On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Stefan Monnier monnier@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
But for a "dedicated" NAS box that can hold up to 6 disks, an A20 would be a rather odd choice.
its SATA interface is also very very specifically a single LUN.
But for a "dedicated" NAS box that can hold up to 6 disks, an A20 would be a rather odd choice.
its SATA interface is also very very specifically a single LUN.
AFAIK it is compatible with sata multipliers (see discussion at http://linux-sunxi.org/SATA), tho you have to request it explicitly with the "enable_pmp=1" module argument.
Stefan
Ok I stand corrected them. So this basically means we are not going to see any NAS products from an eoma standard ?
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Stefan Monnier monnier@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
But for a "dedicated" NAS box that can hold up to 6 disks, an A20 would be a rather odd choice.
its SATA interface is also very very specifically a single LUN.
AFAIK it is compatible with sata multipliers (see discussion at http://linux-sunxi.org/SATA), tho you have to request it explicitly with the "enable_pmp=1" module argument.
Stefan
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On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
Ok I stand corrected them. So this basically means we are not going to see any NAS products from an eoma standard ?
maybe when a USB3 SoC comes out, making the speed worthwhile.
l.
On May 5, 2017 4:06:38 PM EDT, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
Ok I stand corrected them. So this basically means we are not going
to see
any NAS products from an eoma standard ?
maybe when a USB3 SoC comes out, making the speed worthwhile.
Would EOMA200 be suitable with its pcie and sata interfaces?
l.
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On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Adam Van Ymeren adam@vany.ca wrote:
On May 5, 2017 4:06:38 PM EDT, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
Ok I stand corrected them. So this basically means we are not going
to see
any NAS products from an eoma standard ?
maybe when a USB3 SoC comes out, making the speed worthwhile.
Would EOMA200 be suitable with its pcie and sata interfaces?
not really. EOMA interfaces are mandatory. that means that everything else - the video, I2C, SPI, SD/MMC and all the other GPIO - must also be provided.
instead, a case needs to be made for a new standard - and that includes a thread/narrative as to *why it is justifiable*.
l.
I don't think you can put that large number of drives on a rockchip CPU
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
This is cool but a shame that they didnt contact Luke for using something like the a20 or wait for the rk3388 so we could have more money leverage on the soc and common ICs or even turn this into an eoma housing. On May 5, 2017 8:54 AM, "Allan Mwenda" allanitomwesh@gmail.com wrote:
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