Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

Re:Raspberry Pi Server Mark III by andreareina on Sunday December 20, 2020 @08:19AM (#25486035)

Very cool. Do I understand correctly that there's no traditional backplane on this, power and data are both provide via ethernet?

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Re:Raspberry Pi Server Mark III by thetanil on Sunday December 20, 2020 @08:24AM (#25486057)

The Pi does not do poe natively. POE is available as a hat, but I have not seen one for the Pi4 yet. The hats are nearly as expensive as the Pi itself.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Server Mark III by GeertJohan on Sunday December 20, 2020 @08:26AM (#25486067)

I'm using the existing PoE hat on several Pi4's in a production environment and it works great. Never had shutdowns or issues with power. Note that I'm not drawing extra power from any of the USB ports, so perhaps the existing PoE hat isn't sufficient when you have USB devices attached to the pi4.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Server Mark III by thetanil on Sunday December 20, 2020 @09:03AM (#25486250)

Good to know. I couldn't see any reason that they wouldn't work for a Pi4, but I couldn't find a single manufacturer that said Pi4 was actually supported.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Server Mark III by andreareina on Sunday December 20, 2020 @09:16AM (#25486318)

Hat on the official site [1] explicitly says the 4B is supported.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/poe-hat/

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Re:Raspberry Pi Server Mark III by jsjohnst on Sunday December 20, 2020 @10:28AM (#25486860)

The PoE Hats are $15-30 on Amazon. That makes the most expensive one 30% of the price of a Pi4 8gb.

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