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I then configured a SAMBA share in LuCi and the command line, to transfer files from my laptop to the USB drive connected to NanoPi R4S.

Setting up a single board computer (SBC) or even a computer, for both regular or server use, takes time and skill.NanoPi R4S SBC inside its metal enclosure together with a 16GB class A1 microSD card that, as I found later, comes preloaded with FriendlyWrt. but there some issues which we’ll detail in this preview, so I then switch to FriendlyWrt built upon OpenWrt 19. There is no eMMC flash on board, but a micro SD card socket/slot comes built-in on the board capable of loading Linux systems on the memory card. I'm back to using OpenWRT snapshot and I am able to get 937 Mbps download without Software Flow Offloading.

The balanced (high) speeds of the Pi 4 cores make a difference, but at the expense of slightly higher WAN latency when using a USB NIC and less convenient sysupgrades (due to missing kernel modules). Another thing I need to mention here is that I had to also change the thermal pad on the Nanopi-R2S because it comes with a 0. Of course I had to mount it very properly and totally safe with fitting spacer adapter nuts and Kapton tape like every high-grade engineer would do. Especially as I'm trying to do things the "right" way instead of just trying to patch up something bootable. Those IRQ affinity optimizations are not for a benchmark environment but for real world scenarios where ‘everything on cpu0’ pretty often creates an artificial bottleneck.Please note that if you use one TF card to boot multiple boards the WiFi device name will likely be named to "wlan1", "wlan2" and etc. I then inserted the card into NanoPi R4S, connected Ethernet cables to the WAN and LAN ports, and powered it using MINIX NEO P2 USB-C power adapter. As you can see the CPU load is less than 30% and again most of the load is because of the docker daemon running in the background. OK More information about cookies rockchip rk3399 6core armv8 microsd 1024ram 4096ram 2port gigabitethernet 0wnic 2nic 2usb usb2. Meanwhile, the Chinese announce a Quantum computer supposedly billions of times faster than Google’s own Quantum offering and already the tabloid press are asking “is this the end of world banking security?

In an ideal world… Wouldn’t some future chipset carry video over USB C alt mode, so that ‘headless’ boxes didn’t need to waste space on a display output? I know that the DC lines on some of my machines’ ports are weak (such as the netbook I’m currently typing on), it’s probable that I damaged the power transistors used in the current regulators by trying to boot some SBCs directly off them. I’ve tried first to leave it idle for 10 mins, then only test the WAN and then the bridged network (WAN+LAN 1Gbps). Today I’ve done more thorough tests and it seems that there’s no real benefit in a benchmark environment by using those network optimizations.My workstation is a Ryzen 2700X and the Ethernet is an onboard interface on the ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming K4 motherboard with the latest firmware at this date. In theory both boards would need individual device trees representing their individual memory configuration. As you can see the processor usage is ~60% which the double compared to the Nanopi-R4S, but again the docker daemon uses ~30% of the CPU. I found it out today, when I tried again with a completely separate supply for the NanoPi rather than the USB hub from yesterday, where I had both, the AT34 and the serial adapter, plugged in.

Due to the shortage of the chip that has a unique built-in MAC address, FriendlyElec no longer list the R4S board with a unique MAC address for retail sales. I've seen posts where folks running FBSD kernel can get 940mbps, so it's quite possible that the problem lies with something poorly configured in HBSD, but I don't have the resources to purchase a second device just to troubleshoot.In theory high performance ARM cores will work equally well as "high performance"*** x86, but getting router using such cores is hard or expensive (think getting a current M1/2 apple mac mini only to instal Linux and use it as router).

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