Elia Mazzuoli

Hi, I have bought a couple of ESPRESSOBin and I want to start some experiments. I have encounter some oddities on schematics and gpio description. Schematics question: On my two boars there is written that the circuit version is 5.1 but on the official wiki I have found only 4.0.1 schematics. Someone known were the updated schematics can be find? I have found some different links: Official wiki page Documents name report V4.0, schematics file report v4.0.1, date 21/01/2017 Official tech spec Documents name report V5.0, schematics file report v4.0.1, date 08/03/2017 Gpio question: On gpio map there is some NC but assigned pin, I report a couple of this 9 | pwr_button | NC -> what this mean? Is not connected or is connected to power button? 11 | UART4_TDX | NC -> what this mean? Is that pin connected to the uart or not? Check on schematics don't help in fact these pins don't have name (I report the J9 connector for convenience) What do you think about?

Wow... very unexpected result. Seems that the difference of number of core and CPU don't affect this heavy test: ODROID-HC1 / Samsung Exynos 5244 @ (A15 core @ 2000 MHz): type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-128-cbc 78690.05k 89287.85k 94056.79k 95104.34k 95638.87k aes-192-cbc 69102.10k 77545.47k 81156.61k 81964.71k 82351.45k aes-256-cbc 61715.85k 68172.80k 71120.73k 71710.72k 72040.45k Espressobin / Marvell Armada 3720 @ 1000 MHz: type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-128-cbc 68509.24k 216097.11k 453277.35k 649243.99k 741862.06k aes-192-cbc 65462.17k 194529.30k 375030.70k 503817.22k 559303.34k aes-256-cbc 63905.67k 181436.03k 328664.06k 423431.51k 462012.42k yes... the idea for the NAS purpose is not so different from that one can expect from classic synology like commercial solutions! OpenMediaVault, transmission, miniDLNA and not much more from my side! Sure more freedom on respect to a close system is welcome. Whit infos that you are share with me seems that ESPRESSOBin was the best SBC for my purpose. The elios4 seems so good but I don't have found information on it's availability on the market and seems very affordable!

Thank you for your responses! What I have understand is that ESPRESSOBin from the two board is the best for a NAS purpose! What about the CPU capabilities? The ESPRESSOBin CPU seems a little under undersized for running more program that samba, ftp server and not much more... only with OpenMediaVault I think alla resources will be saturated..

Hi, After days and days of research and some mistakes (I have buy Orange Pi plus 2 for the sata connector ) I have selected two board for build my NAS configuration. I want share with this community my considerations and read some other opinions about it. For both solutions i want to use a board like that for manage more than one HDD (and maybe some raid configurations): SATA Replicator on Amazon ODROID (both XU4 and HC1) Pros: The processor seems very powerful and this leave open my option for experimenting with various Cloud software and other (dlna servers, ftp, mini simple site server, transmission and so on). The documentation seems very good and the community active, the board is well known and not big surprise I expect from the quality of product. Last kernel version available. Cons: Not native support to SATA but necessity of USB3 -> SATA (this is not a very cons dou the fact that USB3 speed is very GOOD for many purpose). When you have use a USB3 for sata and the USB2 for a wifi dongle you are finish the USB connectivity (yes you can buy a hub). Bubt: The USB3 -> SATA converter can be connected to the SATA replicator board without problem? I have read that some users have problem to load rootfs from HDD at the moment (I think this is necessary for a durable configuration). ESPESSOBin Pros: The board born with some little nas oriented features. The SATA support is native on SoC. There is a PCIe that eventually can be connected to a board like this: SATA 3.0 PCIe adapter Last kernel version is available. Some USB port remain available after connecting the sata. Cons: The CPU is not very powerful this can be a problem for some not perfectly optimized but interesting nas software. The version with 2GB is very expensive! The board is very young and maybe leak some experience and user support. Dubt: PCIe is a very powerful PCIe or there are some not well documented limitation? I have seen that this is supported directly from SoC but I don't have found any SATA replicator test. On site technical description seems that the purpose is reserved for Wireless/BLE periphereals. With native support for SATA is possible to boot directly from this bypassing completely the sd-card?