Re: AW: New Arndale board announced
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:17:34PM +0000, peter green wrote:
>Bortis Kevin wrote:
>>Nice board. It seems that they have learned from some design flaws
>>of their original arndale board design. Three things that I think
>>are still criticall: 1. They still have no reasonable cooling
>>solution and no mounting holes for a standard cooler/fan. The
>>orginal arndale board got overheated really fast with a working
>>clock of over 1GHz and was therefor very unstable.
>Indeed, the odroid XU seems better in that regard.
>>2. The board is missing a SATA connector. The internal eMMC is far
>>to slow for speedy sw development.
>There is USB3 which should in theory give you fast storage, the
>question is will it be fast and stable in practice.
>
>Does anyone know if the reason for the lack of SATA is because the
>SoC doesn't have it, because the vendors can't be bothered including
>it or some other reason?
I'm going to ask these guys today. :-)
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