Hi. I want to get an Orange Pi Plus 2 or 2E to do tests. Does anyone sell any board of these models? I'm from Spain.

 

Thanks.

 

You can buy from aliexpress, shipments to Spain lately are reasonably fast (2/3 weeks)

No, you can't. Out of stock. 

Ouch

Yes, I'm asking if someone sells it because this model it isn't avaliable in Aliexpress, it is out of stock. I have heard that they will be on stock soon.

Hi

Xulong answered me they were in re-apro.

Probably available soon

Unfortunately, they are saying that since months...

I don't know which parts are in shortage.

12 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

I don't know which parts are in shortage.

Most likely the eMMC module. There are no other unique parts for these boards AFAIK, and for example OPI Win still doesn't have an option to buy it with a presoldered eMMC.

Yes, that is what I presumed ...

But if they felt that shortage would last too long, they should have choose a substitute and tweak PCB accordingly.

21 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

But if they felt that shortage would last too long, they should have choose a substitute and tweak PCB accordingly.

 

One 'solution' might be to downgrade the eMMC as they did on OPi Plus 2 already: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/5333-orangepi-2-plus-storage-performance-query/?do=findComment&comment=40786 -- I hope that does not happen...

 

And for new boards in the future a better solution would be adding a eMMC connector compatible with Hardkernel and Pine boards.