Hi, I am looking for a SBC to self host stuff on. I would like it to be somewhat open hardware (manufacturer provides schematics and drivers are open source). Which is why I initially wanted to buy a banana-pi router but after reading a post in this /c/ I found that mainline linux support is fairly rare in these arm/riscv SBCs.
So I was hoping someone more knowledgeable would help me find some options. Here are my "wants":
- Low power drain
- Open source hardware and software
- Mainline linux support
- 2 ethernet ports, at least 1Gb
- at least 2GB RAM - could do with 1GB I suppose
- a reasonable way to connect 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs - ie. 4 sata ports or one pcie port (not through USB)
- EU seller. Not required but I hate dealing with import taxes and I like guarantees
- Finally I need it to have "wake on power", so that it can start automatically after power outage
The more I search the internet, the more it seems that this mythical computer does not exist but maybe someone knows more than me. Thanks for your replies.
Edit: I'm likely going to settle with the Visionfive 2 since it has official ubuntu support and I won't have to rely on some hacky linux image provided by the manufacturer. It has 2 LAN ports and an M.2 NVME which I'm gonna split into 4 SATAs. Also 8GB RAM is plenty for the lightweight stuff I want to host, maybe even Nextcloud won't be that painful.
Final note: I'm actually not sure how much is the Visionfive 2 open-source but it seems better than intel and AMD stuff so I'm willing to compromise since I actually want to buy something that exists. But anyone reading this in the future beware that I don't know whether it's really open source to the last logic gate. (likely not)
Orange Pi 5 Plus
Not sure about EU sellers or WOP though.
http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-5-plus.html
Zimaboard and Zimablade are good too, but I'm not sure if they're open source. The Zimaboard has PCIE.
I can second the Zimaboard. I've got two HDDs hooked up to the SATA ports, and grabbed a cheap PCIE SATA daughter card for the SSDs.
I also used a PC power supply to run 12v to the board, and i use the built in SATA power cables. Look up "how to use pc psu as power supply", it'll tell you how to get it running without a motherboard.
Here's my setup:
Nice
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I don't think the Orange Pi 5 Plus is mainline Linux ready, or at least the RK3588 is not there yet so it seems to me that it's more of a hacky board. I don't think the Zimaboard is open source but it seems pretty good although I personally would buy a coreboot compatible small form factor PC if I went x86.