Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts

Re:Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts by theshrike79 on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:54AM (#41106656)

No, but you can run multiple docker containers on it for years without the fear of your SD card failing from excess writes as it uses standard M.2 SSDs

If a CEC compatible media player is what you need, then the Pi is a good choice. Or if you need GPIO.

Otherwise they're horribly overpriced compared to N97/N100 minipcs, with the exception of the Zeros.

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Re:Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts by ssl-3 on Friday August 02, 2024 @12:06AM (#41136023)

I haven't had any issues with SD cards failing in Raspberry Pis.

But I've only got about 14 machine-years of using them so far. On a long-enough timeline, I'm sure that failure is inevitable.

The various Android phones I've had over the past decade and a half, however: Now those have killed some SD cards.

YMMV.

(BRB. I think imma dump RetroPie onto an SD card, plug in a PS3 controller, and do some trouble-free some vintage gaming on the Raspberry Pi that was doing media center duties with CEC a minute ago. If I have time, and it seems fun-enough, I'll get the controller working with Bluetooth.

And then I think I'll plug the LibreELEC card back in and crash out on the couch watching a movie.)

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