ARM SBC Replacement for my k3s cluster

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨massive_bereavement@fedia.io⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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?

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InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t understand ‘beyond repair’?

The hardware is damaged by a kernel upgrade?

It’s not impossible, merely unheard of.

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iggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

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HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Not on topic but do you mind explaining the Pine64 breakage?

I am running a lot of their products and a soquartz cm module broke for me as well, I am hoping the rest will hold on for a long time.

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