Durable/serious arm hardware ?

[Russell Haley]

Sorry about the top post, my computer is in a box. 

Have you looked at the products from Netgate?‎ They are the sponsor for PFSense and Jim Thompson is somewhat regular on this list. They have new product based on an arm board, but also have some nice SOHO stuff based on low power x86 boards. ‎

As Ian pointed out there are dozens of manufacturers and many SOMs/SBC are not for consumers, but you need to be able to specify the hardware you want and order in bulk. Many have dev boards but good luck getting complete hardware support without some effort. 

That said,  I've had good luck with my solid run hummingboard (dev base board) and their SOM but there is much unsupported hardware still. They used to sell a case for it too. 

If this is for work, Netgate may be your best option because it will come with a warranty and all the rest. 

Russ

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  Original Message  
From: nowhere
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:26 AM
To: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
Subject: Durable/serious arm hardware ?


Hello

I'd like to hear from the most skilled of you, if anybody knows serious 
arm based hardware or share this though : I'm becoming convinced that 
theses hardware (arm based) are just the consumable-smartphone fashion 
counterpart for kids and leisures or tests. Not really final and 
carefully finished products; abble to works for years or a decade; doing 
is job in a office corner, being forgotten by anyone, like some of my 
older freebsd servers wich are running for a decade now.


Those past years, I've bought 3 arm based devices :

1 raspberry-pi , which was affected by the "micron-ram-chip" bug: except 
with debian, it never booted on freebsd (I even tried netbsd): I just 
trashed it yesterday (bought in 2014 i think).

1 Beagleboneblack : works fine for weeks then freeze suddenly. And 
sometimes did not event reboot (*): had to loop-reset it until boot 
process go to the end. Seem the most "workable" product so far.. (bought 
in 2015)

1 olimex a20-lime2-emmc: my most recent buy. It did not event boot with 
network with it's own debian sd card... (I did not yet take time to make 
it's own freebsd sd card): (bought in 2016-07).

My goals, for example, with theses boards were to give some of my nomads 
customers, a box with an autonomous dhcp/dns/vpn server on theyr 
networks, without the need to change anything else than disabling their 
dhcp servers for instance : I think a Quad xeon racked server is a bit 
too much for theses tasks; I was using pfsence on pcengines boards 
before to do this kind of things.

Since my conclusions are based only on theses 3 boards, I'd like to hear 
from thoses of you who works daily with these boards, and thoses opinion 
are based on far more than my hand counted experiences.


PM.



(*) I work with a 5V/5A (25w) psu: that's not an overloaded psu problem; 
Not a damaged emmc/sd card problem too: all my systems are 
read-only-root based: seems to really be an hardware issue.




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