[plug] Odroid H2 Mini PC

[Bill Kenworthy]

I grabbed one a couple of weeks back - They do seem to be a nice piece 
of gear but I would like more ram - I have 32Gb and its painful when it 
runs out :)

Out of interest, an SD card is 30-40Mb/second data transfer.  One of 
their 64Gb eMMC cards is 5x faster and the Samsung M.2 NVME960 EVO+ I 
just installed noticeably faster again.

mfsmaster ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1:
  Timing cached reads:   7760 MB in  1.99 seconds = 3901.17 MB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads: 4588 MB in  3.00 seconds = 1528.96 MB/sec
mfsmaster ~ #

Running a gentoo/openRC system.

BillK


On 2/1/20 3:58 pm, Andrew Van Dam wrote:
> I bit the bullet and bought an Odroid H2 
> <https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2/> SBPC the other day and 
> thought I'd share my experience. I rolled the dice and bought it 
> directly from HardKernel in Korea, not the best experience. They send 
> no confirmation or follow up email once an order is placed. Although 
> there was a tracking email sent a day later which was a positive sign. 
> It arrived via FedEx less than a week later so not bad overall.
>
> With case, PSU and 16GB of DDR the total was ~$350 AU which per GB of 
> ram is better than a PI or an Intel NUC. The processor is also a 4 
> core device and the hardware has plenty of peripherals. 2 SATA ports, 
> an NVME-PCIE port, dual gigabit, USB 3, I20 pin IO expander (mostly 
> serial or I2C), display port and HDMI. So it is a highly capable 
> device. Ubuntu Bionic flashed straight onto the SSD drive I had lying 
> around with zero challenges even for a n00b like me.
>
> Ultimately I'll be using it as a test bed for developing and exploring 
> ROS2 application so IO connectivity. Ultimately I wanted something 
> with a bit more grunt than a standard PI and I think this will deliver.
>
> -- 
> Regards
> Andrew Van Dam
> 0415 160 235
> MOAM Industries Pty Ltd
> Robotics / IOT / Electronics / Software / cloud - Full stack solutions
>
>
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