On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 7:52 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/15/2017 04:27 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
The Raspberry PI thread got me thinking.
I need a "portable PC" that can do high-speed USB-3 i/o.
I've been using a laptop with both USB-3 ports and a eSata port. I would like enough horsepower I can run compression on the data stream.
Effectively "dd if=/dev/sdb | gzip > compressed_image_file" (I actually use ewfacquire from the distro to do this.)
My plan is to buy a new laptop, but a nice Arm box might be a much better choice.
Especially if I can get one for under $200. I could buy 3 of those instead of a decent laptop.
Any suggestions of what I should look at?
Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer
The Pi 3 is USB 2.0 only.can envision a sing Maybe this one meets your needs:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328716&page_number=7
It also has 2 USB 3.0 ports along with its single USB 2.0 port. For connecting to the internet is has a Gigabit Ethernet port and an HDMI port for a display.
If not, that page is part of an article that covers many others.
It looks like a great start. Are people selling full solutions based on these SBCs? I can envision a single laptop size package with 4 or so of those, a monitor, keyboard and a kvm switch! That would be crazy good for my needs. Anyone heard of something like that off-the-shelf? Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org