Banana pi

[notzippy]

Anyone tried one of these ? Was wondering if there is any opinion on them
http://www.bananapi.com/

Specifically on the router (BPi-R1) or camera (BPi-D1)..

AFAIK they are not affiliated with raspberry pi

Banana Pi -A New Generation High-end Single-board Computer


BPI- R1 is a 300Mbps Wireless N Router


BPI-D1 is the smallest open-source development board around, with a built-in HD mini camera


thanks
Nz

[Frost]

Anyone tried one of these ? Was wondering if there is any opinion on them
http://www.bananapi.com/

Yes, I use several of these as a test platform for my cluster setups
and as a backend system for my KNX installation.
The Banana Systems provides a SATA Port and Gigabit Ethernet
which is a little bit limited by the SoC, so I was able to reach
~460MBit/s with a synthetic benchmark like iperf, jumbo frames
are not supported.

But I would not recomend to buy the Banana Pi, I would definitely
go for the successor, the Banano Pro, which is not much more expensive.

The original LeMaker Kernel 3.4.103 is a little bit outdated today,
especially if you look for new kernel functions like btrfs for example.
But the upcomming kernel 3.19 will support the Banana Pi
and the Banana Pro.
At the moment the dts file for the Pro is still missing at the latest
kernel 3.19-rc6, so you had to integrate the file by yourself
into the kernel sources, but maybe it will be included in
the final 3.19 version.

[notzippy]

How does the pro stack up against the new pi +?http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/02/raspberry_pi_model_2/

Nz

[Frost]

Similar single thread performace.

But:
+ little bit cheaper
+ higher parallel performance, if all cores are fully utilized
- No SATA Interface
- Ethernet only 100MBit/s and only over USB, no integrated MAC