This is a pretty touchy-feely post, I don't have any metrics to discuss, and I didn't take any notes, PLUS I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to many folks here, BUT...

I had an RPI3 running OMV with a Plex server for quite some time. Two self-powered 5TB USB 3.0 drives attached as RAID 1, and for the most part it was "fine."

However, over time the Plex client - an Amazon Fire TV stick - started telling me "Your processor isn't beefy enough to transcode this video" more and more often.

After some googling, I landed on the Rock64 as most likely a decent hopeful upgrade - at the VERY least the 4GB version would be a good side-grade and give the system more RAM to play with. So, ordered, arrived and started playing with it last Friday eve.

I used Ayufan's 0.5.15 jessie OMV image and of course it booted right up no worries.

The first challenge I felt I had was, would mdadm recognize the old RAID?  And jumping crappity, it DID! "mdadm --assemble --scan" and it said "started device md127." No complaints whatsoever! 

Set up the old shares no worries, updated plex server, added the library files, and kaPOW I was in business!

Could. Not. Have. Gone. More. Smoothly.

(Actually I take that back. One of the USB drives is also a USB3 hub, and through my tangle of wires I managed to plug it into itself right out of the gate. Haha oops WHERE IS MY DRIVE? Duh.)

On a whim, and since the thing was only using maybe 300mb of RAM, I thought hey, let me take down this SECOND rpi3 that I have running as Minecraft bukkit server, and see if the Rock64 will take it as well.

Had to manually install the Java 8 jdk (shout out to the IRC #Rock64 channel btw, they are super helpful there!) and rebuild the server jar file - but that was also amazingly fast and efficient, and holy crap if it didn't START RIGHT UP ALSO!  I gave it 2gb of RAM and hopped into my old world with my son for a good ol' time.  With a little luck I won't have to restart it daily, too!

And of course, the USB3 kicks ass. Between that and the gigabit, my Plex clients respond lightning-fast.

Can't believe I "made do" with the old server for so long. OH well.  Actually: serverS - two of them. Now running in one. Whee!  There was seriously so much that could have gone wrong that didn't!

(Gush, gush, gush...)

Hi Everyone,

Okay so I a bit of a noob here and If I'm on the wrong board I apologize, Okay that being said I've purchased the rock64-4G+64gbSSD (Which I've found to be a fantastic sbc) however I'm having a few issues with the "Xenial Mate Community Build Image [microSD to eMMC] [0.5.15-136]" image I've managed to install it on my SSD which was easy (Thanks to ayufan' build),  Now going through MATE I've tried to add users and use the network function but every time I try to use it all I get is "The Configuration could not be loaded, an unknown error occured"  when trying to add users via the terminal (sudo users-admin)  I get "There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: failed to execute program org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends: Permission denied" is there a reason for this,  is there some sort of policy setup on this image?  Does anyone know what this means as I've said I'm a noob to this environment and starting a long learning curve.

Thanks 

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Hi everybody:
Please excuse-me if my question is too simple. I'm just learning with my pinebook. 
I have changed the original 16gb emmc by a 64gb version. After that, it was necessary to install the Ayufan's Xenial Mate linux distro (https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/linux-b...118.img.xz). It  works fantastic, but it seems that I have repository problems. For example, I was unable to install qemu using the standard procedure (sudo apt-get install qemu-system-arm). I get the following error "Unable to locate  package qemu-system-arm". Moreover, the sudo apt-get update command is unable to go beyond line 46 (http://ppa.launchpad.net/maarten-fonvill...dio/ubuntu Xenial/main translation-en [232 B]). It freeze on 0% [Working].
I'm doing something bad. Could you help me?
Thanks in advance
Demian

Dude, Ayufan, 

I know, you can do it.

Regards,
Birender Singh

Hello!

I am looking to trade my 11 inch Pinebook for a rock64 with emmc.

I would also consider selling the Pinebook.

Message me for pictures.

Hello all

I'm looking for an interesting and great project, a developer.
It's very simple challenge. just sending a signal out and look for it in the input. 

Please comment here. 
Thanks

There was a Pinebook on display at FOSDEM with a transparent case. The FOSDEM topic includes a photo, and also says that there might be a production run of Pinebooks like that in the future. I'd really love to buy one of those, so creating this topic to allow others to chime in, and hopefully get enough demand. Thanks!

Hi. 
I use Linux xenial minimal from the rock64 site. 
The version is the latest. 
The HDD is plugged in via the USB 3.0 Port. 
I tried different adapters.  it s always the same.
When I reboot my rock64 the HDD gets not detected. 
If i unplug it and plug it back in it gets detected. 
It s every time the same. 

Is this a siftware based problem?  
i think so. 
Is there a solution?

Hi,
I'm having problems with my 2.5" 500GB WD Blue disk connected to USB 3.0 port with Startech's USB 3.1 (10Gbps) Adapter Cable for 2.5" SATA Drives
(https://www.startech.com/HDD/Adapters/us...B312SAT3CB) under heavy disk usage.

Linux version installed to rock64: Ayufan's stretch-minimal-rock64-0.5.15-136-arm64
uname -a:
Linux rockBOX 4.4.77-rockchip-ayufan-136 #1 SMP Thu Oct 12 09:14:48 UTC 2017 aarch64 GNU/Linux
(It is upgraded to stretch-minimal-rock64-0.6.25-193-arm64 today, but problems still goes on)

after boot: