Thanks for the swift reply!
Makes sense. It's too bad that the Raspberry got so hugely popular and not some other more interesting board... perhaps the only thing we can thank the Raspberry for is getting many people interested in single board computers
I found the original Pi very disappointing, it's terribly slow! The Pi2 was a bit better but still quite disappointing. The Pi3 is slightly better though. I did a bit of benchmarking, in general it seems to be a bit faster than the clock speed increase. One particular thing that caught my attention is that it's much faster at encryption than the Pi2, about 3.5 times faster for AES if I remember well. Desktop performance also feels more snappy. But yes, there are plenty of other boards that outperform it at a lower price.
This is exactly why I got a Cubietruck several years ago, before that a Cubox Pro. Both with native SATA and GBit ethernet. Most SBC's only have USB2 and no SATA or SATA through a crappy USB bridge. It's difficult to find a replacement for it! Any recommendations?
I hooked up an ASIX AX88179 USB gbit ethernet to the RPI3 just for the fun of it, as expected it's barely faster than the built-in 100mbit when serving out files from a USB disk. The best use case for the RPI3 seems to be LibreELEC, but I already have a Minix NEO X7 for that
