About ECC single board computers

[ealltech]

So I've been using a Graperain 6818 SBC for a while and have been fairly satisfied, but then I had an epiphany regarding ECC and my satisfaction disappeared.

I don't like assembling hardware, I don't need a lot of power, and I don't want to spend a lot of money. Considering these criteria, I googled around until I came across the magic acronym "sbc" and combining it with some other magic words like "soc" and "ecc" and "-"non-ecc""I found these:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/Compact/IoT/SYS-E100-8Q.cfm
- Coming soon. Or so they say, but other websites say it's released. And out of stock.
- Kind of weak. I couldn't find the spec, but I think it's 400Mhz, and 512MB ram?
- 2.2W. Is that max or average? I dunno. RPi is 3.5 by comparison.

I couldn't find any AMD GX-210JA standalone boards.

Is this the first line of ECC supporting SBCs out there? It seems like they're mostly targeting embedded system developers or something.

Am I looking at this and totally miscomprehending things? If not, I might get one of those NANO-6060 ones.

 

[Ericloewe]

What's the use case here? These things are sub-smartphone performers.

 

[anodos]

What's the use case here? These things are sub-smartphone performers.

Indeed. Most OSes these days require more than 512MB RAM. I think CentOS 7 is officially at 1GB. The supermicro device is described as an IoT gateway and has a zigbee module socket.

And since I brought up the IoT, here's an obligatory graphic:

If you think of an organism's skin as protection against foreign invaders, and its mucous membranes as vulnerabilities. Link to presentation: https://vimeo.com/135347162

Now if you want to do something, that is anti-bad, then you could turn this device into a zigbee fuzzer (because zigbee devices typically don't like being fuzzed). Then you will not only be good (because that's the same thing as anti-bad), but you will also be fuzzy.

So in conclusion... buy two of them.