It’s perfectly balanced. It can read and write at full gigabit speed, with ZFS encryption, and the CPU is ~90% utilized.

I have an ancient Atom 330 still chugging away as my Asterisk box. It's on an old Intel Mini-ITX board, the only Intel-branded motherboard I've ever had that didn't die from capacitor plague.

It's hilarious to realize that a Raspberry Pi 4 will run circles around it. The 330 can't saturate a GbE port, and even the SSD pokes along at the 1.5 Gbps SATA speed. If I didn't have a PCI telephony card I wanted to keep, I'd replace it with a Pi.

Is it?

The Atom 330 was released in 2008 (as one of the cheapest, weakest processors, lowest power core Intel would produce at the time). The Rasp. Pi 4 was released 11 years later, on 24 June 2019.

I bet you that the Intel Atom 330 ran circles around any chip from 1997.

That celeron is a Goldmont+, which is a "hybrid" between previous Atom designs, with a few rehashed things from Skylake. Not a bad processors at all, though it lacks AVX (so SSE4.1 is the strongest SIMD it has) and absolutely crawls if you try to do anything number-crunchy on it.

A lot of low power cheapie cpus from the era of the N4000 have similar trade offs, if it makes you feel any better. I had a 4 core AMD Jaguar based thing from that era and it was similar, except while number crunching was decent the single channel for memory bandwidth kneecaped anything that taxed the integrated video card or cpu too much.

I will still never understand that decision for Jaguar on mobile. If it was a cost concern why not bin? Or was the worry that with 2 channels it would make Bulldozer look worse than it already did? (My personal theory, based on my experience with a 2 core 3ghz dozer part...)

Hopefully they update their design of NAS a bit so it doesn't look as bad.

I would be interested to know how much do these new Atom cost.

But now I need to sit down and think why Intel decide to use 10nm Super fin for Atom, a low margin product at this stage of the cycle. My guess would be yield is great, but that ignores Server Part and other 10nm roadmap.

Have you ever used one? They have hardware AES, and have had since 2013.

WRITE: bw=184MiB/s (193MB/s), 184MiB/s-184MiB/s (193MB/s-193MB/s), io=10.8GiB (11.6GB), run=60067-60067msec

Correction from above though, it's an Atom C2758

Gambling machines too. There's a market for used small Atom based motherboards previously employed in betting and slot machines. They're often industrial grade really good quality hardware with plenty of serial ports even where not needed, and if lucky enough to find one with enough SATA ports, they also make excellent NAS boards. Linux support is usually complete since they're mostly used with that operating system. I had no surprises using one of them with BSD based Nas4Free.

With Windows -- either XP Home or 7 Starter -- they both barely chugged along, not to mention battery life.

Sometimes it’s nice to have a small server for a dedicated purpose. But would I have considered an Atom for anything else? No way.

Then again, I also didn’t consider anything but an Atom for this job.

Biggest reason this is annoying is only one onboard ethernet.

A vending machine where you let it post sponsored content to your twitter in exchange for a "free" soda.

I've got a quad core Atom mini PC running plex and general file-server duties, and the thing is not only passive but sips energy.

Intel actually has long had some of the better Linux support in the market in general, especially when compared to the early Zen hardware which needed a few years to build up critical mass (and of course it dumps all over the ARM-based experience, having a non-x86 processor is several notches upwards in complexity/difficulty of the experience). In particular they were an early mover on the open-source graphics driver thing (several years ahead of AMD), and their Linux driver has been the gold standard for stability/specs compliance for a long time. The chips underneath them aren't the fastest but the driver is clean and sensible.

American car manufacturers have shown no interest at all in selling small cars but have been forced to by regulators. Thus the Nova, Chevette, Cobalt, Sonic, Neon, Gremlin and other names you don't remember.

Honda and Toyota could not stop making the Civic and Corolla if they tried -- if they did stop for a year they would see people buying 3 year old cars at new prices and be shocked at the money they are leaving on the table. (Honda in particular has been trying to phase out the Fit for the CR-V but they may not have the discipline to be able to do it.)

Atom is a Chevy Nova that is being marketed as if it were a Toyota Corolla. Crap like that should be forgotten in six months, not waved around to remind you how bad it is.

Three of these models have seen refreshes and a resurrection in the market in the last generation, dunno if your intent was to suggest they don’t exist anymore and were forever lost to history but they do but they most definitely were not.

The big 3 made a conscious decision to get rid of their cars because they constantly had to do incentives to make them sell. Compare and contrast to the Japanese makers who tend to be less likely to do so. IMO they weren't selling as many fits as they wanted, and my gut also tells me the new trade agreement may have had an impact (I will admit I haven't dug into it and checked the foreign content and if it would be out of range.)

Heck, Subaru actually moved their US Impreza production to be domestic. If a few players stick to the car market for a while I feel like they will be rewarded for doing so. Not everyone wants the extra cost of an SUV.

When I go to a "car" dealer it seems the cars are all sold out but they have a long line of SUVs on deep discounts.

My dad would go to American car dealerships in the 1970s and they would refuse to sell him a small car. Every time I've been in an American car dealership since it has been the same story except for a small window after 2008 when you might find a small car.

Last time I went to a Honda dealership the Fits were all sold out because the factory washed out but they had plenty of CR-Vs made in the same factory.

So I am sick and tired of the media repeating that "Americans don't want to buy small cars" when the fact is that "American car manufacturers don't want to sell small cars."

I've been using one all summer for web browsing/citrix/etc so I don't have to run my big gaming rig in the summer heat, and it's been great. There's a seller on Amazon who has been clearing out the NUC7PJYH (J5005 based) off and on for the last year or so for $125 and I've picked up a couple. Despite the official spec they do support 16GB of memory and they also have the new media block with HDMI 2.0b support and HEVC 10-bit decode, they are super great for the price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevy_II_/_Nova#Fift...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMsXLYFU0pU&feature=youtu.be...

I generally don't care too much about performance. I was completely happy with the performance of my '85 Toyota Tercel with 65hp. But I don't think I could handle 0-60 in 30 seconds...