So after much swearing and crawling around under my house, I have a ten gig trunk running between my two switches.
As such, I've gotten the rockpro64 over 4.21Gbps and it still had room to spare.
I test in production, sometimes to the ire of my partner.
As for the power/speed/cost compared to an x64 alternative, all I can say is this:
The rockpro64 4gb board is $70.
$20 in accessories to get a fully functional computer.
A 10gig two port intel nic goes for $60 on ebay.
So $150 for a router capable of serving multi-gig internet and 10gig nas.
The cheapest brand name x64 board is a NUC.
$500 for a thunderbolt 3 capable i3 nuc.
~$200 for a thunderbolt pcie dock.
$60 for a dual port 10gig nic.
So $760 minimum to do the same with x64.
I've priced out mini amd builds with an itx motherboard, no case, and minimum psu, and I still come about $500 bucks.
And to top it off, the rockpro64 has a completely open source firmware stack.
For a device that is facing the internet, that is gold for cyber security.
As such, I've gotten the rockpro64 over 4.21Gbps and it still had room to spare.
(05-02-2020, 03:10 PM)kuleszdl Wrote: Cool, looks like you are running yours already in production - or are you still testing the setup?
Regarding the 3 GBit/s maximum - well this might be due to the fact that your NIC has two ports. Assuming that the observed 800 MB/s when running a single NVMe card in x4 mode is the maximum you can get from this SoC atm, this would support this theory since
2 * 3 GBit/s = 6 GBit/s =~ 750 MB/s
Personally, I rather need a setup with 3-4 one GBit/s links. Therefore, the rockpro64 seems to be a good match for that. But apart from the speed, the power consumption is not that satisfactory for me when compared to x86_64 alternatives like the APU series that are more or less on the same level.
I test in production, sometimes to the ire of my partner.
As for the power/speed/cost compared to an x64 alternative, all I can say is this:
The rockpro64 4gb board is $70.
$20 in accessories to get a fully functional computer.
A 10gig two port intel nic goes for $60 on ebay.
So $150 for a router capable of serving multi-gig internet and 10gig nas.
The cheapest brand name x64 board is a NUC.
$500 for a thunderbolt 3 capable i3 nuc.
~$200 for a thunderbolt pcie dock.
$60 for a dual port 10gig nic.
So $760 minimum to do the same with x64.
I've priced out mini amd builds with an itx motherboard, no case, and minimum psu, and I still come about $500 bucks.
And to top it off, the rockpro64 has a completely open source firmware stack.
For a device that is facing the internet, that is gold for cyber security.