On 2016-11-18 21:14, Christopher Myers wrote:
I've got an RPi 3, Beaglebone Black, PCDuino8 Uno, and ODroid U3.
The RPi I just started playing with in the last few weeks. It's good, and has a good support system, but I keep getting hung up by the 1GB of memory.
The BBB I sold on eBay because it didn't fit my use case anymore (so I sold it to buy the RPi.) It was well-built, well-supported, had a good community, and is best suited for robotics projects.
The PCDuino8 I wouldn't recommend unless you want to be met with a lot of frustration and no support from the manufacturer. (I guess it was worth the $10 I paid for it on eBay maybe.) I'm using it as a serial datalogger for an Arduino project.
To be honest, I like the U3 the best. It's super speedy, has an emmc port on the back, and has 2GB of memory. I use it as my server. It runs bind, a minecraft server, mysql server, emoncms, asterisk/freepbx, VPN, owncloud server (servicing 6 client machines,) mantisbt, NFS server, rsnapshot, and subsonic. And does so amazingly well. For storage I attached a 120GB SSD to it through USB. I love the board, it's wonderful :) And even with all of that running, there's still over a gig of memory free to do stuff like remote VNC sessions. When it's not using a CPU core, it turns it off to save even more power. And on top of everything else, it uses all of about 10 watts of power when I'm doing intense stuff.
If I go the "headless" route, I'd rather prefer a box that allowed the hard disks to be inside. It would be perfect finding such a thing attached to small and cheap keyboard and display, though. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)