Hey, 
I shouldn't be asking while pine is in the midst of bringing out so many awesome products, and they have to finish, but...

Are there any plans to produce an rk3588 based board in the near future? Something that maybe could be swapped into the pinebook pro down the road?

Hello. I am looking forward to receiving my coupon code so i can pre order my PineBook Pro.

I notice that one of these adapters is available to add extra storage.
https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinebo...ce-adapter

Will the Pinebook Pro accept a 2TB module?
I assume this unit is installed inside the Pinebook Pro. Will there be instructions posted on the wiki?

Many users will want install a larger and faster drive.  So I'm starting this thread for questions and answers, and will update the information in this first post.

So far, there are at least five main issues:

1) The physical specifications.  They were posted earlier.  Sorry, I couldn't find the post.

2) Mounting hardware and installation.

There was problem with the NVMe adapter issue that has been solved. If you already have an adapter, then you will receive the additional parts necessary to make it work.  Please, do not try to use the adapter in the Pinebook Pro without these parts.

Please see here:  https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8117

3) Power consumption.  

"Around 2.5W reserved for NVMe drive. Please don't use the power hungry type SSD which can creates heat and power consumption issue."

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...8#pid47438

"the 3.3V regulator which is responsible for supplying the NVMe adapter can handle up to 8.25W momentarily, and isn't put under significant load by much else in the system"

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...5#pid48355
 
4) Heat. This is related to power consumption. It shouldn't make the PBP too uncomfortable to use, or make the drive or other components exceed their operating temperature.  Finding suitable drives will likely be the result of trial and error.  Fortunately, external enclosures are available, so buying a drive that runs too hot in the PBP won't be a complete loss. 
 
5) Starting up from the SSD as the system drive.

(Since I already placed my PBP order, I'm guessing I'm in the first 100, so I'm willing to do some testing on this issue.  I plan on buying two different 256 GB, then using one as a USB back-up drive.  Larger drives consume more power and produce more heat, but so far it looks like some 2TB drives should work.)

I like the snapshot, built-in mirroring, and other features of ZFS & BTRFS. By preference, I'd use ZFS, it's more mature, and has more features than BTRFS. But, either one would give me alternate boot environments, so OS upgrades can be less painful. Been using ZFS on Linux for 4.5 years, and I like it. (Used BTRFS before then, and alternate boot partitions before BTRFS.)

Anyway, with a dedicated "/boot" partition, ZFS on Linux allows all the features. Including native ZFS encryption, (pool wide or dataset / zVol).

Has anyone here used ZFS or BTRFS on ARM64?


I guess it's time to un-pack my old media server, (a slower, low power quad core AMD64), and practice / test the latest OpenZFS features like pool or dataset encryption. (After all, PBP is a laptop, made for travel...)

Hey, 
This is my first post. I've been lurking for months but I finally signed up. Let me say I love how you guys run your business, really hacker friendly, reasonably priced and feature rich products, the pinebook pro is a model example and I couldn't find anything comparable for sale here in Canada unless I build my own rasp pi 4 b laptop or something.

Would it be possible to publish ongoing pre-order and fullfilled sales totals, at least for the pinebook pro but also possibly for all the pine products? I think it would be cool for the user community to see how many 'others' there are out there.

Obviously you'd have to caveat it with "this is no indication of personal order progress" or something like that, because I realize any time you do something nice "like the pre-july 1st discount" there are always those that complain. This would just be numbers to see how the community for each product is growing. Doesn't even have to be live or that accurate, maybe updated periodically by sales department would be sufficient.

I apologize if this question was answered elsewhere. I searched quite a bit and didn't find anything other than the initial 2 pre order batch sizes, which were filled within 2 minutes of the pre-order opening.

Thanks again, even if you can't provide this feature.

Hello,

I would like to use this SATA expansion card
https://www.delock.de/produkte/G_89384/m...anguage=en
but before I want to know that the rockpro64 supports the JMicron chipset. I'm not a Linux expert, therefore I appreciate any advise / suggestion where can I find the related information.

Thank you.

It looks like the M.2 adaptor has a number of holes to both fix the adaptor in place and to hold the M.2 in the adaptor. Are the required standoffs/pillars
included with the adaptor, and if not, what sizes do we need?

I'm very happy that they are at least producing wayland drivers however there aren't any instructions for installing the driversdon't know what applications I'm supposed to use for installation, or if I simple just put the files in the lib directory and then create system links.  I've gone thought the documentation folder as well and found nothing.  I could use some even if it just the applications that I'm supposed to use to build the driver for dpkg installation?

On a second note will there be OpenCL drivers built for the Pine H64 Model B as well in Linux for xll desktop hardware acceleration?

I know the device uses usb c to a cables, that should work shouldn't it?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/747...=user_menu

Obviously no one has it yet so we wont know for a while. Is there a chance this software might work? Looks like they either support Android or Ubuntu OS. 

https://shadow.tech/usen/applications