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.