Many YouTube content creators, myself included, noticed something in early to mid-August: views were down.| www.jeffgeerling.com
Now that Joel0 in the TrueNAS community has created a fork of TrueNAS that runs on Arm, I thought I'd give it a spin—on a Raspberry Pi.| www.jeffgeerling.com
Raspberry Pi launched the 2 gig Pi 5 for $50, and besides half the RAM and a lower price, it has a new stepping of the main BCM2712 chip.| www.jeffgeerling.com
A few months ago, I upgraded my M4 Mac mini from 1 to 2 TB of internal storage, using a then-$269 DIY upgrade kit from ExpandMacMini.| www.jeffgeerling.com
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The GMKtec G9 N150 4-bay NVMe mini PC is $240 and the nearly perfect NAS for my mini rack:| www.jeffgeerling.com
I'm in the process of rebuilding my homelab from the ground up, moving from a 24U full-size 4-post rack to a mini rack.| www.jeffgeerling.com
I just bought this N100-based Intel x86 mini PC (brand new), and it was cheaper than an almost equivalent—but slower—Raspberry Pi 5.| www.jeffgeerling.com
tl;dr: it depends.| www.jeffgeerling.com
It's risky business fighting Intel, AMD, and Arm, and that's exactly what Star Five is trying to do with this:| www.jeffgeerling.com
RISC-V is the new entrant into the SBC/low-end desktop space, and as I'm in possession of a HiFive Premier P550 motherboard, I am running it through my usual gauntlet of benchmarks—partly to see how fast it is, and partly to gauge how far along RISC-V support is in general across a wide swath of Linux software.| www.jeffgeerling.com
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The latest RISC-V computer I've tested is the Milk-V Jupiter. It's pokey at Intel Core 2 Duo levels of performance—at least according to Geekbench.| www.jeffgeerling.com
I've been testing a Milk-V Jupiter this week, and have tested a number of other RISC-V development boards over the past two years.| www.jeffgeerling.com
tl;dr: No, it's not a replacement for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. But yes, it's an exciting tiny RISC-V board that could be just the ticket for more RISC-V projects, tapping into the diverse ecosystem of existing Compute Module 4 boards.| www.jeffgeerling.com
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I gave away 480 Raspberry Pi Picos at Open Sauce last weekend, and ran into a number of challenges doing so. All of them self-inflicted, of course. I didn't want to just hand them out like candy—or, well... that's exactly what I did:| www.jeffgeerling.com
Ansible runs on Python, and Python runs on... well pretty much everything. Including newer RISC-V machines.| www.jeffgeerling.com
In 2009, a company in South Africa proved a homing pigeon was faster than an ADSL connection, flying a 4 GB USB flash drive to prove it.| www.jeffgeerling.com
...or at least, not without a lot of patience or a fat wallet.| www.jeffgeerling.com