Hello folks,

 

Based on the important amount of work you guys put in the H3 support and the great progress you've made, thank you for that, I am seriously considering buying an Orange Pi Plus (I need Gigabit Ethernet for my application). I need a server config with remote desktop via vnc, rootfs on SATA HDD, good ethernet performance, don't need Wifi, 24/7/365 operation.

 

I just noticed there is two versions of the Orange Pi Plus, the "regular/original" with 1GB of memory and the "Plus 2" with 2GB of memory. Considering the price difference I am thinking of going with the "Plus 2", more memory never hurts, and I was wondering if I would encounter any issue using the Orange Pi Plus image (legacy kernel for now) image with the "Plus 2" version? Will it boot and perform OK? Will the whole 2GB of memory be available?

 

Additionally I was wondering how much performance increase I can expect with the Quad core H3 Orange Pi Plus compared to a Dual Core A20 Banana Pi Plus or a Cubietruck (I own both).

 

Looking forward to your reply and thanks again for all your work, I use your images on all my boards :-)

 

Best

rootfs on SATA HDD

 

Not possible. H3 has no SATA capabilities and if the Plus 2 (or 2 Plus? What a naming scheme Xunlong invented! WTF?!) uses the same crappy GL830 USB-to-SATA bridge then that's reason number one to stay away from this device.

 

Regarding GL830 please read from here on: http://linux-sunxi.org/Banana_Pi_M3#SATA

Arg....showstopper!

 

Is there any reasonably priced board with quad (or more) core with true SATA that you know of? I guess USB3 would be an alternative as well ...

 

Odroid XU4 with USB 3?

 

In any case thank you for your reply, saved me from making a mistake :-)