News Raspberry Pi 5 Industrial PC brings the heat with Integrated NVMe SSD

[Admin]

Edatec’s latest Raspberry Pi 5-based PC comes with integrated SSD options and will be shipping to consumers in early 2024.

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[bit_user]

Nice case, but the Pi 5 has a glaring deficiency, for use as an industrial platform: no support for ECC memory.

Beyond that, its PCIe expansion slot is just a single lane. So, NVMe performance will easily surpass SATA, but fall well short of what you'd get on most motherboards (nearly all of which have at least x2 lanes).

Specs-wise, the Orange Pi 5 Plus is a far better option. Still no ECC memory, but has more cores, supports more RAM, and PCIe 3.0 x4:

http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-5-plus.html
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Also, better temperatures & power efficiency, since its SoC is made on a much better node. Furthermore, it has a NPU they claim is capable of 6 TOPS.

 

[KILI-1782]

Nice case, but the Pi 5 has a glaring deficiency, for use as an industrial platform: no support for ECC memory.

Beyond that, its PCIe expansion slot is just a single lane. So, NVMe performance will easily surpass SATA, but fall well short of what you'd get on most motherboards (nearly all of which have at least x2 lanes).

Specs-wise, the Orange Pi 5 Plus is a far better option. Still no ECC memory, but has more cores, supports more RAM, and PCIe 3.0 x4:

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http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-5-plus.html​

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Also, better temperatures & power efficiency, since its SoC is made on a much better node. Furthermore, it has a NPU they claim is capable of 6 TOPS.

emmmmmyeah, raspberry pi's strengths are still mainly in the well-documented and stable ecosystem. This product is still good for industrial applications, such as wide voltage and industrial interface retention.

 

[bit_user]

emmmmmyeah, raspberry pi's strengths are still mainly in the well-documented and stable ecosystem.

I understand why people like it, but that doesn't make it suitable for all applications.

This product is still good for industrial applications, such as wide voltage and industrial interface retention.

Certainly not where failures are either costly or dangerous. The Pi's SoC simply wasn't designed to that standard. Meeting only some of the requirements is insufficient.

A proper industrial platform should have ECC the whole way through, as well as other RAS features. This thing is still just a toy.