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Please, dont put electronics in the fridge.Condensation will kill it ! might be a better idea to remove the bottom cover and blow a fan to the soc area. For short terms, filling a plastic bag with water will also do the trick (until water heats up anyway).

It's a cheap device; bad touchpad and keyboard is almost a given. Might be useful to disable touchpad alltogether when mouse is plugged in.

Yeah, 5W should be fine. Definitely better than to trust software capacity report

Can't really fix poor random performance with file system. If hardware sux, there is little to be had. In theory you could fix random write performance with some additional write cache, by catching all random writes into a ram buffer and then dumping them later to the flash. https://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/epl/index.php/FlashFire used to be used back in EeePC days (those had awful flash "ssds") and it did mitigate stutters a little bit as far as i can remember.

You needed to bump the voltage to ~1.4V to hit those speeds. On stock voltage, most boards went to ~850-950Mhz (mine topped out at ~930mhz). If you cranked the voltage to 1.4V and didn't hit 1.0.Ghz reliably, then you definitely had the biggest turd of an example.

there seem to be user generated armbian images on the orange pi facebook group.

I honestly expected better power efficiency out of this (my before mentioned asus typically draws around 1-2W less while being much more powerful) but i guess this is the cost of bottom barrel components (namely soc). Any news on when pine has intention of selling these things to the public (and not just built-to-order) ? edit: just for fun i measured some values on my x205ta (11", baytrail cpu, same battery as pinebook): -no wifi, idle screen off -- 0.7W -display on, idle, wifi off -- 2.0-2.2W -browsing armbian, wifi on -- 3.3-4.5W Budget SoCs have still a long way to go as far as power is concerned; but then again we're talking about a soc that costs at least 5x more in bulk than a64

Can any test actual battery capacity with discharging manually (like with imax b6). I'd really like to know if the batttery is really 10Ah or just 5Ah pretending to be 10Ah. Also, what about power consumption when i use ? Also, this seems to be more of a developer toy than anything else. If you want a usable, tiny, power efficient/longlasting runtime and cheap, something like an asus x205h will provide a much better value. While i was waiting for pinebook to come out (to satisfy my tiny laptop itch) i grabbed one of those x205s for 75$ used and it works great (none of the crappy arm support; it just works like x86 should). But enough the offtopic, just a general suggestion.

Looks like there will be some effort to clean up the kernel https://github.com/RDA8810 Also, SDK and sources https://mega.nz/#F!59EVmKAZ!5FdBb2dQIMcxgY2h16nGPg

Its a board limitation, so it cant be patch in software.

Actual sd card slot is still limited to SD25, so you won't see anything like 90MB/s. Not that it matter, because responsiveness is determined by random performance, not sequential.

what about H5 ? Is there anything that can be optimized/implemented in current armbian images to improve desktop performance or is this it ?

Looks like your network is running in 100Mbit mode.Check if you can negotiate gigabit speeds on the network card, then you should hit better speeds (still ultimately limited by usb2)

Nothing a bit of solder can't fix I wonder if there is a cheaper variant in the works ? Dumping -1GB of ram and wifi/bt would make a nice cheap media box SBC.

If you buy a quality DAC/amp, there won't be any issues, especially if you power it externally. I mean, once you eliminate power issue, it shouldn't matter if the digital stream comes from usb or i2s

You can always use an external USB dac, if thats your thing. My fiio works perfectly on all oranges i own.

1Ghz was achievable on pretty much all boards; evidence of this is the option in their raspi-config, which allowed for 1Ghz setting. My example went easily to 1150Mhz.

I think i still have 32MB MMC card lying around somewhere As far as i recall, it was very slow even at the time

You'd be surprised how power efficient recent intel chips can be. I have not tried this board, but you can look up pine64, which uses the same chipset to get an idea.

Out of the cheap boards, this might be worth considering https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Orange-Pi-Win-Plus-Development-Board-A64-Quad-core-Support-linux-and-android-Beyond-Raspberry-Pi/1553371_32803012893.html + USB->SATA bridge. this will be fairly power efficient, has battery power support (just solder li-ion cells to the appropriate pads) but sata performance will be slow due to usb2 bus limitation. Another option is something like ASRock J3355B-ITX (or any other goldmont based board). You get great sata/network performance, but you will have to figure out battery power (a cheap UPS would do the trick in this case). Also it's going to be less efficient as orange pi board. Another out of the box approach would be to take out a laptop motherboard based on atom/pentium chipset. You get everything (battery, sata, ethernet, good efficiency).

This is pretty awesome ! OMV is my goto distro for cheap NAS builds. Hopefully we get some usable NAS ready boards (Allwinner h6 anyone) sometime this year, so OMV will be extra handy. A bit offtopic; anyone got their webui working on latest 3.x builds ? Mine broke as soon as i've updated.

Power efficiency, software made specially for arm platform ?

Thats because it's running 64bit image. Pretty much everything is more ram hungry. Sometimes you need to resort to installing armhf packages, just to keep the ram usage down.

hmmm, PC2 with 2gb of ram and this SoC for less than 35$ ? That would be interesting Glad to see xunlong branching out of allwinner.

try a different card and/or card reader. Obviously there is an issue, when burning the image. If PSU is causing issues, the board would reset. Its less likely that it would cause you not being able to login.