by Jonathan Updated Dec 30, 2020 Published Dec 30, 2020 Raspberry Pi News
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The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 IO Board exposes an x1 PCI Express Gen 2.0 slot. What can you do with the slot? And are there any tips or tricks to make sure you don’t accidentally cook a PCIe card—or the Pi? See all the cards I am testing:...
by Jonathan Updated Dec 4, 2020 Published Dec 4, 2020 Raspberry Pi News
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I built the fastest (to my knowledge) native SATA RAID array on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, and set it up as a NAS server, testing out hard drives and SSDs, and different RAID setups like RAID 0, 1, and 10. I discuss the advantages of different RAID levels, how...
by Jonathan Updated Nov 27, 2020 Published Nov 27, 2020 Raspberry Pi News
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How do you flash a new OS onto the eMMC built into a Compute Module 4? It’s simple! In this video, I’ll show you how. And for those who don’t like watching videos, here’s a blog post that goes along with the video:...
by Jonathan Updated Nov 13, 2020 Published Nov 13, 2020 Raspberry Pi News
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Can you use an enterprise-grade SAS RAID card in the Raspberry Pi? That’s the question I try to answer in this video. There is a lot more data that I didn’t cover in the video, but I cover in the Raspberry Pi PCI Express Card Database website:...
by Jonathan Updated Nov 13, 2020 Published Oct 20, 2020 Raspberry Pi News
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Everyone knows you can overclock the Pi 4. But what happens when you overclock a Compute Module 4? The results surprised me! More info in my blog post: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/overclocking-raspberry-pi-compute-module-4 Phoronix benchmark script:...
