On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:33:53AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 04/17/2015 09:46 AM, Mandar Joshi wrote:
Hello everybody, I was hoping to get some suggestions from you guys about which ARM development hardware to purchase.
The hardware will have just one purpose; compiling and testing CentOS. With this in mind I'm leaning towards something Quad Core, good amount of RAM,NAND Flash, SATA and that has a heatsink . Does SATA seem reasonable or will a USB HDD serve just as well?
I live in Mumbai, India. So, I might not have all the options you guys have. I might be able to get Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard, Cubie Board, Radxa, Banana Pi or Odroid from these guys https://www.crazypi.com/ or http://www.greenindiaelectronics.com/
If anyone from India is reading this, please do suggest reliable sellers.
I have Cubieboards for testing once there are builds for me to work with. I am quite happy with them, but the A20 is only a duo core. The Cubieboard 4 is a octo core, but they left off the sata and only a single otg usb.
it's not symetric octo too, it's big/little so only 4 powerful cores IIRC
Then there is the Wandboards. Pricey compared to Cubies, but there is a nice quad core with sata. A friend of mine is running his audio streaming server on one with F21.
Daniel