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TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Start by reading this comment: lemmy.world/comment/4966625

The directions on the wiki aren’t very clear and doesn’t explain the difference between flashing to the NAND or eMMC. D

What explanation do you need? You’ve multiple images, one for each storage type, pick whatever you would like to use and use it.

Also, any experience with the BPI mini

Never used that one. I’m not even sure about what board you’re talking about. Look up on the supported hardware table if it is supported and how good the support is.

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Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There is 128MB of NAND and 8GB of eMMC… so does that mean one version is very barebones and the other version is feature-rich? I just don’t see anything explaining why you should choose one over the other, especially when both storage chips are part of the board and not upgrade options.

This is the BPI-R3 mini board I was referring to. The main difference I see is that it only has the pair of 2.5Gbps ethernet ports and does not include the five gigabit ports, so it’s in a much smaller package.

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- TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  There is 128MB of NAND and 8GB of eMMC… so does that mean one version is very barebones and the other version is feature-rich?
  
  No. All versions have all features, the thing is that OpenWrt is modular and you can install thousands of packages from the repository just like in any Linux system. I would go with eMMC or an external SD card and call it a day. The advantage of the SD card is that it is easily replaceable.
  
  Here is a detailed comparison of each storage and use cases: forum.banana-pi.org/t/…/4.
  
  This is the BPI-R3 mini board I was referring to
  
  Check this post here, apparently the BPi guys already provided a bunch of their own builds for the board. Eventually you’ll get an “official” OpenWrt image. It seems to be out of stock tho.
  
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  - Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Say whaaaaat? Wow it’s sure evolved a lot since the last time I looked at it. I literally have a pair of WRT54G routers in my house running dd-wrt but my wife has been having trouble with one of them lately so I thought it might be a good time to start looking at upgrading. Wonder if I can get 20 years out of a banana pi? 😆 I do like the idea of just building my own box this time around and these boards look like some serious hardware so I’ll keep reading into it. Thanks for all the links and info!
    
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    TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Wonder if I can get 20 years out of a banana pi? 😆
    
    Well If the hardware doesn’t fail - something that also happens to the WRT54G - you might. After all the hardware is way more open, there aren’t any MIPS shenanigans and other restrictions that the manufacturer may have added.
    
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