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A recent Armbian kernel upgrade bricked my entire Rock64 cluster (5 cards) and after a week debugging, it seems beyond repair.

I would like to find some ARM-based SBC for self-hosting that's reliable enough to run for the next five years.

My question for you is reliability and support, rather than specs, as I found Pine64 lacking in support and 4 out of 8 cards failed in the period of two years (one got replaced by warranty).

I have already an x86 cluster, so my interest is for ARM vendors and do not need wifi, gpio, audio, hdmi, etc...

Any experience with Orange Pi or Radxa?

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[–] iggy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only Radxa I'd bother with is the Rock 5 and for the price, I'd probably just go with rpi5 (unless you like to tinker... a lot). That's coming from someone that owns 3 Rock5's. The new Orion board looks interesting, but if it's like any other Radxa products it'll be 2+ years before it gets decent software support.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks, that is one of my biggest concerns. Rpi5 is on my radar, despite the supply situation that often plagues rpies