[fpc-other] Anyone using Orange PI

[Andreas Berger]

In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>> I agree. Most of our RPis are actually running Debian, but in extremis
>> it's always possible to roll back to Raspbian as a baseline configuration.
>>
>> There are of course other small boards: Olimex, Odroid and now Asus.
>> However RPi does offer a fairly flexible and cost-effective range, and
>> unless the OP is considering shipping hundreds rather than 10s of boards
>> I suggest that getting onto both the Linux learning curve and one for
>> minority hardware is quite simply not cost-effective.
> The problem is that rpi has no fast storage interface (like SATA), some of
> the more expensive orangepis have sata. (though I'm not entirely sure if it
> is not bridged via usb)
Storage is one of the factors the HW developers mentioned. The system 
using the Pi will be doing a LOT of information logging. I personally 
don't know if it is a factor since all log info in coming in on a 10MBit 
ethernet so it shouldn't overload the file system. We have a project 
using a Blackfin that save data (in similar proportions) on a SDCard.