Recent content by MikeKulls

I did a bit of research and it appears the Banana PI was a good choice before the PI4 came out. It had 2GB vs 1GB, onboard 8GB eMMC and the m.2 slot. But now the PI4 has a newer processor and double the ram. It looks like the m.2 only supports WiFi cards and the like so I think it has limited...

Actually, looks like you can get drives that fit, eg...

Apparently the USB SATA bridge is still quicker than the SD card and give you more reliability potentially. Not that I've ever had SD card issues with a PI. As for the m.2 that is an issue depending on what you want to do with it. I find this is the sort of things you run into with all PI...

I was looking at either of these. First one has m.2, the second has SATA. They both have onboard eMMC of 8GB which is usually enough for my needs. They claim to support raspbian. http://www.banana-pi.org/m4.html http://www.banana-pi.org/m3.html

That does look interesting. The one I was looking at was the Banana PI. It has an m.2 socket and supports raspbian apparently. Only 2GB compared to 4G for the PI4

I'm looking for a PI alternative. I'm curious if this is still your opinion? Have you had any issues not running raspbian? All my uses for the PIs so far have not been GUI related (besides web config pages)