LattePanda / Udoo x86?

[Phantomwalker]

Hey guys,

 

I'm curious if any of you out there have experimented with one of the two boards in my post's title? The higher end LattePanda ships with an intel processor and Windows 10. It's also cheaper than the Udoo so I'm naturally leaning towards experimenting with one of them. The Udoo looks like you could do a lot more interesting projects with it though and it sounds like it could install pretty much anything on it. But it's about as bad (price-wise) as buying a little thin client or something along those lines off eBay.

 

Has anyone out there tried to install unRAID on one of those or on any other single board computer setup? I'm pretty sure I've read multiple places that unRAID doesn't work with Arm/Raspberry Pi. But what about an x86 board with an Arduino coprocessor? I'm still a bit of an unRAID Noob. I've only been running it for around 6-8 months and it just seems like there are so many amazing things you can do with it. So I'm not even sure if this idea is 100% feasible. But if it is I'd like to go down that path. :)

 

I was mostly interested in setting up a very low power secondary "appliance" computer that would run unRAID for the management interface/WebUI and using Docker containers to run all the apps that I plan to run on it. The end result would be to use it as like a reverse proxy and VPN gateway appliance. Something that could stand in the middle of my router and my file server.

 

Right now I have a 4th gen i7 Gigabyte Brix that a coworker who recently left my company gifted me on his way out the door. But it runs at such high temperatures that I constantly get notification messages from it so I have made no real effort to finish setting it up, and I think running an SSD in there would basically destroy it from the constant heat abuse over time. The other option I was thinking of was removing the board from its case and maybe trying to upgrade the cooling solution or replace the CPU fan with something better and then getting a friend/coworker to 3D print me a new case that fits whatever cooling solution I find works best.

 

But if there's already a SBC out there on the market that unRAID works with that doesn't generate Sahara Desert levels of heat to just run the OS.. then that would be something I'd love to learn about. Would something like Webmin, Cockpit or the likes be a better choice for the "Management Interface" for this setup, or should I just wait for the new Onda Mini-ITX Ryzen boards I was reading about to come out? :)

 

Anyone tinkered with anything along these lines and wants to throw their 2 cents into my post? :) Thanks in advance for whatever suggestions or input you may be able to provide.

 

Thanks!

 

-Phantom

[XBVR]

Similarly, I was interested in LattePanda & Unraid as I have neither right now.  I am curious as well, how the LattePanda fairs with Unraid being installed and then how would one connect to it to VM's and such as you would with a normal gaming pc in a VM?

[dboris]

Curious as well with the new one comming.

[ich777]

For example look here, this should be something similar:

 

Keep in mind the Odroid H2+ is now deprecated because of the global chip shortage.

The Odroid H2+ is based on older hardware than the Latte Panda I think but has two SATA ports IIRC.

[doesntaffect]

Nice piece of hardware to play with, and I doubt this can be serious foundation for an UnRaid installation. For the limitations the price is too high from my view. 

Meanwhile, check dfi.com @Phantomwalker, they make nice embedded hardware. A good overview of new released embedded hardware is this page.