This is interesting. I'd like to see a comparison between the 8GiB RAM versions of the #Odroid M1 and the !RasPi 4. I don't know what the #raspberry_pi 4 lists at, but when I bought a couple, they were around the same price.
After both Iceloops and myself found our Odroid XU4 #SBCs overheating, despite coming with a fan already, I've started to wonder whether Hardkernel designs its boards too close to the limitations of the chips.
Setting up the #RPi_Zero for BOINC was easy. It has a single ARMv6 core and 512M of RAM. In the Win9X days, this would have been good enough for your daily desktop machine.
First work-unit (Einstein @ Home) errored out quickly, but the next one (Yoyo / Distributed dot net) has been chugging along for twelve hours.
Temperature is 55C / 132F, versus the #XU4’s 63-81C / 145-178F. (The #Odroid XU4 just hit two days of uptime for the first time in this project.) Planning to repurpose the XU4 after its next freeze up. I’m hoping it chews through some work-units first.
I did read somewhere that persistent problems (overheating?) with the XU4 led to a stripped down version with a giant heat sink case being sold as the network storage oriented #Odroid #HC1 and Odroid #HC2 devices. I think that was either on the Ameridroid site or in the Amazon descriptions for the "home cloud" devices.
(Note: I've lived in this house 6.5 years and have not run BOINC at all until today, so being that high in the stats with the old equipment I used says something about the difficulty attracting and retaining people who'll devote some spare resources to research projects. There's also the possibility that BAM / BOINCStats only cover people who are specifically participating in that activity.)
I think I'll repurpose the other XU4 and attach it to BOINC through #Gridcoin. (I think this will show up as a separate account in the stats.)
I think that is a good idea, and I'm planning to spin up a #BOINC node with my own XU-4 soon. Or maybe an older #Raspberry_Pi (the !RasPi 4 seems a little expensive right now, and I already have a Raspberry Pi model 2B and a model 3B that I can repurpose).
What I'm probably going to do is remove all or almost all of my files from the app space and just use the direct filesystem access area until I set up the #Odroid #HC-1.
I still need to help my mom and sister get more of their stuff uploaded to the #NAS anyway.
@1iceloops123 I hear you have an #Odroid. Which model? What have you done with it? I’m probably going to order the HC1 (and of course the !RasPi 4) when finances ease up a little.
After a disappointing experience with my #pcDuino order (I ordered the pcDuino 1, not knowing it was an older device and no longer produced; the seller went out of stock but did not notify me; after investigating, I spent several days trying to make sure the cancellation and refund processed; entire process was around two weeks), I took another look at the #Odroid XU4 (which is supposed to be significantly faster than a !RasPi 3B+).
I have seen lots of bad reviews about the XU4, but I also noticed good reviews for products based on modified XU4s, such as the HC1. I decided to purchase an XU4 and see for myself whether the reviews are accurate.