seems like a pretty nice setup

Well I am upgrading now. THe reason for this is simple thoo. The HDD makes noise

So I decided a cheap shit device with the HDD offsite from where I sleep is a good idea, while my main stuff can stay in my bedroom since SSD.

but tbh this is the first time I am buying chink mini PC server

I heard the BIOS has no documentation so far and its hard to get Linux running

oh boy this gonna be F U N

oh boy

so beware

But it will run, just its chink BIOS

mine has an apollo lake j4005, 6gb ram, 128gb ssd and a 2.5" disk slot if needed. $226 usd.

there is a difference between American Megatrends and chink BIOS with a million options

if it has documentation it will probably be in chink

nah they have mostly English customers

they are just using up so much time actually making the product since they fucked up

they blew up the delivery schedule by far as they didnt realize how advanced their PC became

already made one, which was much simpler, you see.

sounds nice @Absolute Kubica I cant get so cheap stuff.

😬 it would be cheaper if i had it shipped from china but i didn't want to wait 3 weeks.

used chink shit is absolute worst though

I remember anon getting a mobo from chinkland that had CORRODED == RUST on it

😬 would never order a mobo from their tbh.

so what would you get from chinkland

smartphones. they're near enough guaranteed to work. maybe a laptop too.

I thought you talked about that PC you got but from china, saying you didnt want to wait for it to be shipped

@Dietrich your orangepc still needs 12v for the hdd, right?

Yeah, of course. that said for an ARM device the Orange Pi is king, it can power a Raspberry Pi from its USB since it has a superior DC-IN power I actually supply 2A to it if need be.

But if you use a 2TB 2.5" HDD you can power it from the Orange Pi

yes. but that's different as it's one device and not a single component by itself. i'll just send the pc back to their poland warehouse if it doesn't work.

or SSD, similar.

As it has sufficient power over HDD

I need external power because its a big hDD

@Dietrich does it have gpio p9ns?

ah shit you bought better shit than me I see, I didnt know these existed.

And retard proof manuals for setting up a remote server?

This is the thing about Allwinner, since its a tablet SoC

If you get the H3 one in Orange PI PC, it does not have native SATA

You are going to feed it with external controller and USB

Older SoC actually has a native SATA port, some have fake SATA-to-USB so beware

I got a controller holder for my 8bitdo SN30 controller

But those run an even more ancient CPU

for my phone