Intermittent LAN reliability issues which appear to be distro agnostic. LAN often fails after a hot boot, which is not ideal. I’ve spoken to several other users with the same issue but I don’t believe it’s widespread. A portable cyberdeck makes this less of a problem I suppose.
Aside from this fundamental issue. I intended to buy this as an ultra low power server, only for it to be outclassed in the same power envelope as an older intel skylake-based home server platform (this was honestly quite astonishing, though the server was 2.2x more expensive all in all).
A minor bonus is that we didn’t have to fiddle with box86/64/fex-emu. Fex-emu and box* are remarkable projects and I don’t mean to hold the arm ISA against the Pi as a negative, but it ended up being much more convenient for our case.
I’m also kind of fed up waiting for the rest of the board support to be upstreamed but that’s more my fault for being an early-ish adopter.
The one my friend bought is the Fujitsu D958 if you’re interested. I used “skylake” in a sort of dumb (++) way but I believe this is technically using a coffee lake cpu
Why do you hate your Pi 5?
I haven’t switch to 5 yet, but 4B has worked well as a DIY home server (Pi-hole, NAS, media server etc.).
Intermittent LAN reliability issues which appear to be distro agnostic. LAN often fails after a hot boot, which is not ideal. I’ve spoken to several other users with the same issue but I don’t believe it’s widespread. A portable cyberdeck makes this less of a problem I suppose.
Aside from this fundamental issue. I intended to buy this as an ultra low power server, only for it to be outclassed in the same power envelope as an older intel skylake-based home server platform (this was honestly quite astonishing, though the server was 2.2x more expensive all in all).
A minor bonus is that we didn’t have to fiddle with box86/64/fex-emu. Fex-emu and box* are remarkable projects and I don’t mean to hold the arm ISA against the Pi as a negative, but it ended up being much more convenient for our case.
I’m also kind of fed up waiting for the rest of the board support to be upstreamed but that’s more my fault for being an early-ish adopter.
Too bad about the LAN issue, that does not sound fun.
Did not know skylake had a home server platform (let alone that it was comparable in power consumption to the Pi).
Cheers!
The one my friend bought is the Fujitsu D958 if you’re interested. I used “skylake” in a sort of dumb (++) way but I believe this is technically using a coffee lake cpu