Hi Bob, Pablo,
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Finally, the main thing about that board (about that SoC actually), is that SATA is not native, it is an integrated SATA-USB, so performance may be an issue.
Ouch. this is for a mail server that has extensive disk I/O. So forget this board.
Personally I love the BananaPi M2Ultra, 2G RAM, 4 Cores and native SATA. The only problem is that SATA support is not integrated yet in any kernel, so it needs external patches.
Of course if there is a quad core 64-bit ARM with sata under $100 that runs at 5V; that would do nicely!
It costs more than $100 and I'm not sure if it's 5V or 12V but the new LattePanda boards might be interesting: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/139108638/lattepanda-alpha-soul-of-a-ma...
BR, Patrick