"Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
So after buying a 4gb model.. Logan found that Adafruit is selling the 8GB version for the same price.. so I'm getting the 8GB version.
Tempting for sure, but then I need to add a case, power supply, etc. Now for my rant, I've got a pair of OrangePi 3LTS boards and I'm disappointed in them honestly. They work well, but one of them (the one I put remote to me) just up and died. It doesn't power up and god knows what happened. It was in a building where nothing else died, so I don't think it was lightning or anything like that. Maybe just a crappy USB-C powersupply? Bad batch of boards? Dunno... just a bit annoyed, especially since the other one I kept at home for testing of upgrades before I pushed them to the remote one just keeps on working. So I'm really thinking I should just pick up a cheap old SFF PC and put linux on it and just leave that at the remote site where it *might* be more durable to whatever is killing my SBCs I deply there. Oh yeah, I had a raspberryPi in the same location and it too died. Maybe it's just too damn warm in that network closet. But there's really only just a couple of switches and a wireless AP in there, not much else in terms of power. Gah!