Beagle Board Or Raspberry

[anubh...@gmail.com]

Hi Friends,

I am thinking of creating a small System, which will be able to backup my Website everyday, automatically on an external hard Disk. Can someone guide me if it would be best to move ahead with Beagle or Raspberry.

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 19 Sep 2019 07:03:08 -0700 (PDT) beagl...@googlegroups.com wrote:

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>
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> Hi Friends,
>
> I am thinking of creating a small System, which will be able to backup my

> Website <https://silicophilic.com> everyday, automatically on an external

> hard Disk. Can someone guide me if it would be best to move ahead with
> Beagle or Raspberry.

The Raspberry Pi is faster and cheaper and is better as a "normal" computer
(as opposed to a purely embeded system).

>

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[amf]

I used a Raspberry Pi zero with usb-to-ethernet adapter and usb-to-ssd converter, found transfer rates to be slow.

Being RPi zero uses the same usb bus, this most likely is the cause of being slow.

I used it as a git server for u-boot and Linux source code for Yocto builds

Then moved it to a beaglebone black with wired ethernet and usb-to-ssd converter, was much happier.

So it comes down to what kind of bandwidth you need.

Don't recall the exact number, but I think beaglebone black will draw about 3x or 4x of power (pi zero < 100ma, bbb > 350ma) idle state

That's my experience, hope it helps

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:19:53 -0700 (PDT) beagl...@googlegroups.com wrote:

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> I used a Raspberry Pi zero with usb-to-ethernet adapter and usb-to-ssd
> converter, found transfer rates to be slow.
> Being RPi zero uses the same usb bus, this most likely is the cause of
> being slow.

Yes. A Pi3 has a much faster network, both wired and wireless. I use an older
Pi2 as a "build box", both for "native" Pi and BBB/PB applications as well as
cross-building for embeded MCUs (avr, arm M0, ESP32) and it is reasonable. Not
lighting fast, but quite fast enough. I also run KiCAD (with my laptop as a
remote screen using X11 tunneled through ssh) on it to design PCBs. It has
acceptable performance.

> I used it as a git server for u-boot and Linux source code for Yocto builds
> Then moved it to a beaglebone black with wired ethernet and usb-to-ssd
> converter, was much happier.
> So it comes down to what kind of bandwidth you need.
> Don't recall the exact number, but I think beaglebone black will draw about
> 3x or 4x of power (pi zero < 100ma, bbb > 350ma) idle state
> That's my experience, hope it helps
>
> On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 1:25:05 PM UTC-5, anubh...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Friends,
> >
> > I am thinking of creating a small System, which will be able to backup my

> > Website <https://silicophilic.com> everyday, automatically on an external

> > hard Disk. Can someone guide me if it would be best to move ahead with
> > Beagle or Raspberry.
> >
>

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

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On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:57:46 -0400 (EDT), in
gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user Robert Heller

<heller-2/ccJrXdU8tWk0Htik3J/w...@public.gmane.org> wrote:


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>Yes. A Pi3 has a much faster network, both wired and wireless. I use an older

A Pi 4B should be capable of much higher speed, having USB 3 ports, and
I believe the NIC is "real", not using USB for Ethernet. Still waiting for
notification of the 4GB model to come in (did receive a 2GB today). Got too
many Pi boxes: 3B running Pi-Star digital Amateur Radio node, 3B running
nginx as a slow web-server via a dynamic DNS system, 2 3B+, and a 4B2G --
I've just moved a 3B+ to the computer desk next to one of my BBB for
scratch operations)
--
Dennis L Bieber