The base of the Pyra, minus the keyboard and battery, would also make a nice silent NAS imo...
OMAP5 has SATA and it needs just a SN75LVCP412RTJ chip, 8 capacitors and a 3.3V supply. Well, you also need some connector and cables.On the Pyra all this is located on the external USB-to-eSATA plug because the OMAP5 SATA signals are routed to the high speed pins of the USB 3 socket and need some signal shaping.How would you get it talking to SATA hard drives? AIUI the OMAP chips don't have the gubbins to talk SATA natively.
OMAP5 supports SATA 2.0 (300MB/s), which will also be available on the Pyra through a special adapter.How would you get it talking to SATA hard drives? AIUI the OMAP chips don't have the gubbins to talk SATA natively.
Cool, of course it should work flawless at first and is tested long enough in the Pyra. If all goes well I'm sure the Pyra modular concept may get some attention out there.There is a plan to make the OMAP5 CPU boards available separately (with technical support to build a tablet around it) through http://shop.goldelico.com. But before this happens, it must work perfectly and be in mass production for the Pyra.I wonder if this little (and complex) CPU-PCB could be used for other pyra-compatible devices. Imagine some Pyra-Tablet that could be offered compared cheap without the CPU SOC if you own an normal Pyra. You could ust remove the PCB and put it int the Tablet.
Sounds like an Raspberry Pi to me.The base of the Pyra, minus the keyboard and battery, would also make a nice silent NAS imo...
Not really. The Raspberry Pi does not have USB 3.0 nor SATA, so high-speed storage is not really possible. Everything is connected via one USB 2.0 connection (including Ethernet), so that gives significant speed limits. Also it has only 1 SD slot. Its CPU is quite weak compared to that of the Pyra. And it does not come with a case.Sounds like an Raspberry Pi to me.The base of the Pyra, minus the keyboard and battery, would also make a nice silent NAS imo...
You can chain all sorts of things together, but in the end, it will still be no more than 300MB/s going into the OMAP5.Pyra base unit plus the eSATA adapter plus something like one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Port-Multiplier-SATA-hardware-controller/dp/B004JPHAF0/
http://www.amazon.com/multiplier-hardware-RAID0-CLONE-Controller/dp/B004JPUZWU/
http://www.amazon.com/Oodelay-eSATA-Port-Multiplier-Controller/dp/B00PZ7347E/
If I understand it right, those can be ganged too. I.e. if you got 6 of them you could have 25 SATA devices connected to a single eSATA port on a Pyra. You could even have them all running in a multi-tier RAID 5. Would you call that RAID 55? RAID 5+5? Raid 5^5? Or just plain silly?
Add in an external case and PSU for the drives. Maybe a multi-drive hot swap SATA cage or two...
At that point you can have a pretty nifty NAS running a full Debian install.
The hypothetical 'could' and the 'should' may be two different things though.
More like Raspberry PySounds like an Raspberry Pi to me.The base of the Pyra, minus the keyboard and battery, would also make a nice silent NAS imo...
Well, the OMAP5432 Evaluation Board by SVTronics (DigiKey 1055-1004-ND) is sort of an OMAP5 based RasPi++. It has all what you ask for. Except bluetooth because the WiLink8 chip (WLAN+Bluetooth+NFC) is not installed for unknown reasons.Not really. The Raspberry Pi does not have USB 3.0 nor SATA, so high-speed storage is not really possible. Everything is connected via one USB 2.0 connection (including Ethernet), so that gives significant speed limits. Also it has only 1 SD slot. Its CPU is quite weak compared to that of the Pyra. And it does not come with a case.Sounds like an Raspberry Pi to me.The base of the Pyra, minus the keyboard and battery, would also make a nice silent NAS imo...
Okay that explains why I never got that to work.Except bluetooth because the WiLink8 chip (WLAN+Bluetooth+NFC) is not installed for unknown reasons.
Yes, but I was thinking more like something ED (or perhaps you, or someone else entirely) would develop, which explicitly uses the Pyra CPU board (so it can presumably also be "upgraded", at least theoretically), and which has a nice user-friendly plastic case and all that.Well, the OMAP5432 Evaluation Board by SVTronics (DigiKey 1055-1004-ND) is sort of an OMAP5 based RasPi++. It has all what you ask for. Except bluetooth because the WiLink8 chip (WLAN+Bluetooth+NFC) is not installed for unknown reasons.Sounds like an Raspberry Pi to me.The base of the Pyra, minus the keyboard and battery, would also make a nice silent NAS imo...
Not really. The Raspberry Pi does not have USB 3.0 nor SATA, so high-speed storage is not really possible. Everything is connected via one USB 2.0 connection (including Ethernet), so that gives significant speed limits. Also it has only 1 SD slot. Its CPU is quite weak compared to that of the Pyra. And it does not come with a case.
There are a lot of alternative boards that do a lot better than a Raspberry Pi for several purposes, like the Banana Pi: Allwinner A20 with SATA, GBit LAN and 2 USB 2.0 ports (all native, no onboard USB Hub) for 35€ - it's by far the cheapest if you want SATA.Sounds like an Raspberry Pi to me.The base of the Pyra, minus the keyboard and battery, would also make a nice silent NAS imo...
I thought ED mentioned that the Pyra does not support USB 3.0 because the SoC does not. (It will HAVE a USB 3.0 jack though) Not sure about the real speed in comparison to an Raspberry but I've heared the ne Raspberry Pi 2 B is actualy quite beefy (ARM Cortex-A7 Quad). it also has 4x USb slots, neat.Not really. The Raspberry Pi does not have USB 3.0 nor SATA, so high-speed storage is not really possible. Everything is connected via one USB 2.0 connection (including Ethernet), so that gives significant speed limits. Also it has only 1 SD slot. Its CPU is quite weak compared to that of the Pyra. And it does not come with a case.
No it will have USB 3.0 the SOC has it, but it will be the mini-USB 3.0 style. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Connector_USB_3_IMGP6033_wp.jpgI thought ED mentioned that the Pyra does not support USB 3.0 because the SoC does not. (It will HAVE a USB 3.0 jack though)
To be specific, the SoC does support USB3.0 but only on the OTG port. It will support USB3.0 in slave mode, and host mode (full sized) with a standard adapter.No it will have USB 3.0 the SOC has it, but it will be the mini-USB 3.0 style. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Connector_USB_3_IMGP6033_wp.jpgI thought ED mentioned that the Pyra does not support USB 3.0 because the SoC does not. (It will HAVE a USB 3.0 jack though)
Socket shown next to ED thumb in this picture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIMG5JQWgAA_hMK.jpg:large
There will be a regular sized USB 3.0 port like you said that is essentially just a regular USB 2.0 port, but will carry the SATA lines.
I really don't know why people continue to bring up the Allwinner stuff - did you have a look at http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effortand http://linux-sunxi.org/Mainline_Kernel_Howto (or http://linux-sunxi.org/GPL_Violations, for that matter)?There are a lot of alternative boards that do a lot better than a Raspberry Pi for several purposes, like the Banana Pi: Allwinner A20 with SATA, GBit LAN and 2 USB 2.0 ports (all native, no onboard USB Hub) for 35€ - it's by far the cheapest if you want SATA.
Looked that TI wlan chip up. It's quite cool: it supports station and AP mode at the same time like Atheros cards do on Linux:Well, the OMAP5432 Evaluation Board by SVTronics (DigiKey 1055-1004-ND) is sort of an OMAP5 based RasPi++. It has all what you ask for. Except bluetooth because the WiLink8 chip (WLAN+Bluetooth+NFC) is not installed for unknown reasons.Sounds like an Raspberry Pi to me.The base of the Pyra, minus the keyboard and battery, would also make a nice silent NAS imo...
Not really. The Raspberry Pi does not have USB 3.0 nor SATA, so high-speed storage is not really possible. Everything is connected via one USB 2.0 connection (including Ethernet), so that gives significant speed limits. Also it has only 1 SD slot. Its CPU is quite weak compared to that of the Pyra. And it does not come with a case.
Trying to be most precise, there will be for OMAP5 based Pyra:To be specific, the SoC does support USB3.0 but only on the OTG port. It will support USB3.0 in slave mode, and host mode (full sized) with a standard adapter.No it will have USB 3.0 the SOC has it, but it will be the mini-USB 3.0 style. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Connector_USB_3_IMGP6033_wp.jpgI thought ED mentioned that the Pyra does not support USB 3.0 because the SoC does not. (It will HAVE a USB 3.0 jack though)
Socket shown next to ED thumb in this picture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIMG5JQWgAA_hMK.jpg:large
There will be a regular sized USB 3.0 port like you said that is essentially just a regular USB 2.0 port, but will carry the SATA lines.