A recent Armbian kernel upgrade bricked my entire Rock64 cluster (5 cards) and after a week debugging, it seems beyond repair.

I would like to find some ARM-based SBC for self-hosting that’s reliable enough to run for the next five years.

My question for you is reliability and support, rather than specs, as I found Pine64 lacking in support and 4 out of 8 cards failed in the period of two years (one got replaced by warranty).

I have already an x86 cluster, so my interest is for ARM vendors and do not need wifi, gpio, audio, hdmi, etc…

Any experience with Orange Pi or Radxa?

  • iggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    The only Radxa I’d bother with is the Rock 5 and for the price, I’d probably just go with rpi5 (unless you like to tinker… a lot). That’s coming from someone that owns 3 Rock5’s. The new Orion board looks interesting, but if it’s like any other Radxa products it’ll be 2+ years before it gets decent software support.