[Arm-dev] Cubieboard5 performance

Mon Aug 6 09:37:57 UTC 2018
Patrick Laimbock <patrick at laimbock.com>

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-macbook-in-a-pocket-siz/description

BR, Patrick