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