Orange Pi 5 8GB Rockchip RK3588S 8 Core 64 Bit Single Board Computer, 2.4GHz Frequency Open Source Development Board Mini PC Desktop Run Orange Pi OS, Android12, Debian11 (Pi 5 8GB)

Cool take from raspberry pi works as stated...software little wierd but ok

I own two of these little fun computer, plus the 5 and 5 plus. Djc Orange pi This is a great little SBC that thinks it is a little desktop. Run Ubuntu or Debian Bookworm. The Arch distro did not seem to work. Used a Sandisk Ultra 32gb or a 64gb micro SD card. The HDMI display is solid. The network interface came right up on the 5B. The 5 and 5 plus m.2 Wi-Fi cards need a simple configuration edit and they work just as well. All of the Wi-Fi cables are delicate as are the tiny sma connector. Think gentle. I used some plastic standoffs as mounts for the two antennae. Speed 1gb on the Ethernet and 780 mbps on the Wi-Fi neat. Used a USB keyboard mouse. Used a DVOZVO case with an upgrade Geeekpi pwm fan with a bit of code and you have fun little machine. Easily connected to my LAN printer and NAS. Next up an I2C OLED status display. Fun to use for SDR and general surfing and office work. Load up Libreoffice, Librecad and Freecad and we are off making things. There lot of data from the supplier and on the web. Think of this as a RPI with smaller set of GPIO pins. I would recommend the SBC Linux board.

In a word void of Pi's this comes to fill the void and offer some performance for your troubles. Ran Armbian stock, tested Plex and Home Assistant on it. Not using the manufacturer's OS variant and plex not having any support for it was still able to do a few 1080p streams. In this config also booted off of a 2282 nvme and boot times are significantly improved. That is where one of my annoyances would lie. The missing nvme standoff is a pain as the spacing is not standard. Managed to find a washer to use for it's mounting and was happy the M.2 spec is not peculiar to the exact angle of the nvme. Also get it a beefy heatsink or active cooling, the Pi4 core heatsinks won't suffice. Also at this point in time, in this region, it's hard to find a good case for it, amazon has only 2.

I'm very happy with this device. I installed and boot from the a drive i installed instead of the SD card. It took a bit of work, but that was a few years ago, maybe its easier now. The N100/N150 prices are starting to get very comparable now, so see what is best for you.

It does what as designed. Run's smoothly with out problem.

Out of the 5 OS images on their website, i can only get picture on my monitor with 1, DietPi. With the other 4 images(Orange Pi OS(ARCH), Ubuntu, Debian and Armbian) my HDMI monitor says no input, its just black. I even followed their poorly written guide on how to flash your image correct, but the same result or lack there of. But i can see im not the only one having that problem. Searching google "orange pi 5 no hdmi output" gives 12 million results. I only bought this because it was hard to get a new Raspberry Pi, but since they are in stock im gonna try to sell this and get a working SBC.

Small and energy efficient yet powerfull and fast SoC, perfect for internet server, especially 16GB RAM version. Build in PCIe port allows for SSD disc usage, which additionally speedup th whole solution. I'm very glad from this purchase.

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