On 04/17/2015 05:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 04/17/2015 10:38 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: >> On 04/17/2015 05:34 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 04/17/2015 09:51 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: >>>> On 04/17/2015 04:46 PM, 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/ >>>> I am very happy with the Odroid U3s I have, they are much faster >>>> than BB and there is no comparison towards RPi. RPi are cheap but >>>> very very very slow. If you are interested just in raw horsepower, >>>> Odroid XU3 are a better option, but more expensive >>>> >>>> Manuel >>>> >>>> PS: did I mention that RPi are very very very slow ? >>> >>> Is this the new RPi 2 which is an armv7 duo core? No sata though. >> I was speaking about the older Pis ( that's what I have around ) but >> even the newer RPi is still slow compared to the other boards due to >> the lower frequency they operate at. > > Good to know. I priced them out compared to the Cubieboard2, and by > the time I added things that come 'standard' from my West coast Cubie > dealer, they were the same price. I performed some test in the second half of 2013. They required processor power (real time image processing) and results indicated that RPi < BBB < Cubie2 < Odroids. The older RPi has issues even displaying a decent CSS in firefox. And in order to compile a newer network driver for the RPi, after spending 20 mins watching bits flow by in a make <whatever that was>, I killed the job on the RPi and did a cross compile on the U3. 6 min later the new driver was in place and the RPi was happily using it. Mandar: Depending on budget, I'd go with either Cubietruck ( http://www.cubietruck.com/products/cubietruck-cubieboard3-cortex-a7-dual-core-2gb-ram-8gb-flash-with-wifi-bt-1 ) -- maybe shipped directly from a Chinese supplier (I purchased my Cubie2 from eleduino.com but other options exist) or with an Odroid: XU3 ( or XU3 lite) if budget permits or U3 otherwise ( I got my first one directly from Hardkernel.com ( S Korea ) as they ship more or less worldwide )