Hi all,

I want to use that ROCKPro64 system, with an Ubuntu server or Debian, as a 10 to 12 SATAIII harddrives NAS.


The idea is to use this controller card, which is a PCI-e 2.0 4x card with Marvell 88SE9215 chipset (1 PCI-e lane to 4 SATAIII per chipset).

I know that technically, the Marvell 88SE9215 is working on the ROCKPro64, but this controller board also use another type of chip, and I cannot find-out what they are exactly...

I you look at a close-up picture, you can clearly see that each of the 4 PCI-e lanes goes to the bigger chip on the center, then to the smaller four chips and then to the mini-SAS connectors (and then mini-SAS to 4 SATAII). But the 88SE9215 chip only takes a single PCI-e lane according to its datasheet, so I suspect that board to use four 88SE9215 chips and some kind of PCI-E lanes splitter in between to give each 88SE9215 a single PCI-e lane.

Does anyone have more information? Am I wrong? And more importantly, does this card works on the ROCKPro64?


For more info, I want to replace my old Core2duo based NAS, and I currently have 10 harddrives of 3TB to manage. I use ZFS-on-linux, which seem to work on ROCKPro64, with a 10 discs RAID-Z2. I know the datarate won't be extraordinary high, but I only need it to saturate the gigabit Ethernet with Samba shares, so about 100MB/s top.


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Hi Folks,

I've been experimenting with my NAS case and various drive configurations - 2.5", 3.5", SSD, Hybrid, Combinations - and I've settled on the use of 2 Seagate 12TB Exos drives (https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-256MB-Cache-Enterprise-ST12000NM0007/dp/B0759Q9FXZ/) (and they've released 14TB).  The lower capacity of the 2.5" SSDs didn't balance the lower capacity available.  By striping the two 12TB drives, I have almost 23TB of usable space and over 250MB/sec sustained write performance.

By using a low-profile, 5VDC fan (https://www.amazon.com/Wathai-80mm-10mm-Brushless-Cooling/dp/B07PXSB9W3/) and the standard low-profile RP64 heatsing and fan, I can maintain sub-40C temperatures when running all 6 cores with an artificial sysbench load.  During normal operation I usually see temps in the sub-30C range.

One step that I did take was to tape the SATA cables to keep them clear of the fan blades.

All together, a very good solution for a micro-NAS or media center/server.

Is it just me, or can more people test login in with a Chromebook?
My password works when I'm on a Windows machine, but I can't login with my Samsung Chromebook Plus.
I have the password in a mail, so I'm not typing it, I'm pasting it.

Hello all,

I cracked open my pinebook after I noticed the hindge was opening the case a little bit when opening the lid.  Some of the plastic is broken in many of the screw points, so it got me thinking; what are alternative ways to reuse the hardware in my pinebook.  From the wiki doc on the LCD screen it said that the interface for the screen is an eDP (embedded DisplayPort), but the ribbon cable on the pinebook board is the same size as the DSI interface on a raspberry pi 3b (and others).  But I also noticed that the same cable drives the web camera too.  

The cable has the following information on the sticker that was covering the connector:
YD200 LCD Cable
P/N: FPC-C0176
Date code: 18/10/08
Vendor code: XBH

Is there an easy (cheap) way to adapt this to DSI or HDMI input?  I would like to use it with a Retropie setup.

Thanks

Weird problem, I am running android 7.1 on my pine a64+ and after loading android and I start using it, the screen rotates 90 degrees and i cannot get it rotated back without shutting down. It usually happens when i try to get into an app, and seems to do it no matter the app. Hope this is enough info, I''m stumped

Found a few minor issues on the Pinebook Pro specifications page;

https://store.pine64.org/?product=14-pin...nux-laptop


The weight is given in both metric & pounds, (aka lbs). But the dimensions are not also given in inches.
(Yes, I know us yanks are behind the times... and we can use a unit conversion tool... however, it's just a few numbers.)


Next, the Flash section has a old data on upgradable size;

Flash: 64 GB eMMC 5.0 (upgradable up to 64GB). The first two batches release for PINE64 forum user edition contains 128G eMMC module.

Probably should read;

Flash: 64 GB eMMC 5.0 (upgradable up to 128GB). The first two batches release for PINE64 forum user edition contains 128G eMMC module.


If there is a different method to report web page typos and such, just let me know.

Hi

I have heard that the ROCK64 can run rather hot. I will use mine mainly for streaming. Will a heat sink be enough, or should I get a fan too?

Hello pine64 community!

I am really happy to finally see great laptops such as the pinebook pro, stating to emerge with RISC - ARM architecture.

I have been following the developments for years and although in the smartphone, iphone, ipad product lines there are super fast RISC SoCs since many years, there is a long delay for this technology to pass to the laptop sector.

Pinebook Pro is the best available laptop right now in the market for an amazing price and I wish to congratulate the Pine64 designers for this effort.

Unfortunatelly, my personal computer needs are a bit more demanding, using my laptop for mathematic-scientific simulations and although I wish to ditch my x86 laptop for years now I still can't do it.

Fortunately, the last crop of arm chips (ie cortex A76, A77 not custom samsung or Apple chips) seems that they have caught up with the x86 ones and they demonstrate HUGE improvements on single thread and multithread performance!

Presently, the successor of Rockchip RK3399, the RK3588 based on Cortex A76 is being manufactured and according to Rockchip "mass production is planned for Q1 2020"! That is so soon! Considering that cortex-A76 provides more than 100% performance improvement over the RK3399's cortex-A72 in single thread, it is amazing news! Also Mediatek has announced that they are preparing their next Cortex-A77 Soc for 2020! These are amazingly fast chips!

Please PINE64 designers, for power users like myself consider creating a beefed up version of Pinebook Pro with a SoC like RK3588 and a little bit more RAM, or even better, socketed RAM not soldered so people can upgrade them according to their needs?

Congratulations again for your great products!

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?