05-10-2016, 11:58 AM
I have both although my Pi is a B2. It is too early to compare the performance of the two as I just built the Pine64+ last night. I believe that Mate desktop includes Samba, but I have not had a chance to test that either.
From an experiential standpoint, Longsleep (and others) have done an amazing job in getting Linux running on Pine, but in my limited experience, Raspberry Pi was easier to setup and configure given the massive community and mature code. However, to your point, those benefits come with a trade-off of an older (and slower) architecture, and does not seem like the LAN bandwidth issue has been addressed with the Pi3.
I would be interested some Pi2 vs Pine64 Samba bandwidth testing and will try to get around to it later this week. I will probably use CrystalDiskMark. Do you have preferred parameters?
From an experiential standpoint, Longsleep (and others) have done an amazing job in getting Linux running on Pine, but in my limited experience, Raspberry Pi was easier to setup and configure given the massive community and mature code. However, to your point, those benefits come with a trade-off of an older (and slower) architecture, and does not seem like the LAN bandwidth issue has been addressed with the Pi3.
I would be interested some Pi2 vs Pine64 Samba bandwidth testing and will try to get around to it later this week. I will probably use CrystalDiskMark. Do you have preferred parameters?
