Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell...
by aleph_minus_one on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:18PM
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You know, a RPi 5 1GB is $77, 4GB is $109, 8GB is $170 and 16GB is $385. None of it makes sense, especially if anyone starts a reballing shop.
Reballing the RAM of the Raspberry Pi is blocked by its firmware:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2380887#p2380...
Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell...
by kiddico on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:46PM
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How incredibly lame of them
Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell...
by vkaku on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:17PM
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That's where the community always comes in handy. Those who can reball those many chips can flash some ROMs, no less.
Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell...
by aleph_minus_one on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:47PM
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That's where the community always comes in handy. Those who can reball those many chips can flash some ROMs
Quote from your referenced article:
"even the bootloader is cryptographically signed – no patching out the RAM check code, sorry to spoil it."
So, according to this article, you really have to downgrade the bootloader to an old version that does not yet contain the RAM check.
I was looking to try out Joel's TrueNAS on ARM this time with a Pi 5, a PoE and NVMe Hat ... I decided against it and ended up getting a good old cheap x86 compact NAS instead.
The pricing is off.