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  1. I've just tested my new case. Here is my preliminary review.  

     

    TLDR: It is not good. 

     

     1) It does not fit perfectly, there is air between microchips and a case. I hope a thin thermal pad (0.5~1.0 mm) can help here.  (As you can see in a photo there are almost no marks from a thermal paste on a chip)

     

    2) Surfaces are not perfectly flat, they need be processed by a file tool or something. 

    3) Screws are thin and do not look reliable.



     

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  2. I've got 4 boards and all of them have 'flipping' network interfaces. 
     

    ❯ ansible all -b -m shell -a 'journalctl | grep -Ec "Link is (Down|Up)"'
    dns01 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
    1544
    
    nanotor | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
    61
    
    monitor | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
    2
    
    dns02 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
    136

    Three of them are Armbian and 4-th has  FriendlyElec's Ubuntu 16.04 
    Kernels are `4.14.18-sunxi`  and `4.14.0` respectively. 

     

    I doubt it can be a hardware issue, all boards a connected to the one hub, no issue on other boards (RPI and Odroid) from this hub.  Also, I do not use network-manager 

     

  3. I've got a practical reason to prefer a unibody case.  It is a dust. My RPI3 is a media center for my family. It lives behind my TV or it travels with us. In both cases, I would prefer something without too many vents. 

     

    If it does not fit well I hope I will be able to fix it with thermal glue and copper plates. 

  4. 4 hours ago, chrisf said:

    Or if your application benefits from the SHA hashing instructions of ARMv8

    Bitcoin uses SHA-256 doesn't it?

     

    My project is for education so I'm not an expert here however from my understanding it is irrelevant for a full node. 

    Hashing power is important for miners.

    A full node performs transaction validation which does not involve much hashing (or hashing at all) 
    http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001802/ch08.html#_validating_a_new_block 

  5. Hi there, 

     

    I'm going to run a full bitcoin node on ARM board so on the first sight requirements are:  

    1) it is in stock now

    2) 2 Gb RAM 

    3) CPU performance and Stability under high load

    4) USB 2.0 (or better) for an external storage 

    5) ethernet on board 

     

    as for now my short list is 
    1) Odroid XU4  or HC1 (C1 was used for bitnodes as far as I know)

    2) ASUS Tinker

    3) Orange Pi Prime (?)

    4) NanoPi K2

    5) Rock64 (4Gb)

     

    I'm not sure about OPI Prime b/c I've found some reports on the forum about stability issues. Also it is sold out at the moment. 

     

    I'm open for your suggestions and thoughts.  Thank you in advince. 

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