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 -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veillard at redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/