<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 12:26 PM Bobbie Sellers <<a href="mailto:bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com">bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi LUGers,<br>
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Tom though did a show and tell with his miniature server.<br>
The bright red color is quite eye-catching. So are the dual<br>
Ethernet ports and the internals sounded quite nice but I<br>
am not sure of my data in that regard and Tom can tell us<br>
about it. It looks smaller than the Mac Mini and the Intel NUC<br>
and uses ARM 64 I believe.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> It is one of these: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098B4W716">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098B4W716</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Yes it is ARM 64. It is actually a Pi 4 computer module on a carrier board. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/MxdpeLf1EEu5U93Z8">Photos</a> </div><div><br></div><div>The Compute Modules (CM) come in various configurations. </div><div>! to 4 GB ram, WIFI or not, built in flash (emmc) storage. </div><div>But no peripherals. Except for what is exposed on the connector. </div><div>The Pi 4 CM has PCI-E on the connector which allows you to have </div><div>a lot more possibilities on the carrier board. </div><div><br></div><div>On this little server board we have mini pcie for possible 4G LTE modem </div><div>and also an M.2 for very fast NVME SSD drive. (and an extra ethernet port) </div><div><br></div><div>Other people have made carrier boards with multiple SATA ports. So with </div><div>that you could make a Pi based NAS. </div><div><br></div><div>Thomas</div><div>I have two of them, 1GB and 4GB ram. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Bobbie Sellers<br>
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