02-26-2017, 11:34 PM
(02-26-2017, 06:33 PM)adamjedgar Wrote: 1. Am i understanding correctly that even on the sopine board, the actual improvement above that of a good sdcard is not enough to warrant price of the upgrade?
I'll leave 2 & 3 for Xalius or Marcus to answer as I'm not really following the SoPine developments ATM.
But with regards to this point... then there should be a marked improvement in performance on the SoPine (and pinebook), as the SD card (and thus a plug in eMMC via SD) is on a 4bit bus on the pine64, whereas the sopine has the eMMC on a 8bit bus. So in other words, the pine64 storage will be as fast as you can get it unless you use UAS (USB Attached SCSI) to attach a raid hard drive arrangement via the usb ports. This is doable, and I believe from tests done on the Armbian forum that they have been able to double the throughput of the microSD card that way... but that is by heading down a different path.