Move over, ARM: BeagleV is a $150 RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

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16 points·mardiyah··4 comments

It’s incredibly disappointing that in 2021 booting from a microSD card is still the norm for nearly all of the SBCs on the market. Proper mSATA (and even NVME) SSDs have gotten unbelievably cheap in the last couple years. It’s at the point now where a good quality microSD card is only marginally cheaper than an mSATA SSD of the same capacity. Anyone who has been working with these types of systems for a few years knows how much of a headache relying on SD cards is. Inevitably your SD card is going to stop working or get corrupted — it’s just a matter of time and use.

I'm an i.MX developer and I've been dual-booting off of SD and onboard eMMC for nearly a decade now.

If you're still crying about SD storage it's because you're addicted to Broadcom, you're afraid to take the training wheels off, or you're cheap - or some mixture of the three.

Pointing this out always leads to an argument from the fanbases of certain unmentionable Broadcom SBCs. And those arguments usually center on cost and the relative strength of the community support. But the design is never questioned.

Meanwhile, I'm shipping products that don't kernel panic when you drop them, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Same link was posted 16 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25771314

Though it's just a dual core for this price range

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