Machines not in use
These are machines I own but which I’m not using at this time. Maybe I will find a use for them at some point in the future. I occasionally try to brain-rain ideas for what to use them for.
Orange Pi
| Machine | Orange Pi 5+ |
| CPU | Rockchip RK3588 (8 cores) 64-bit @ 1.8 GHz |
| GPU | ARM Mali-G610 |
| RAM | 16 GB LPDDR4 |
| HDD | 256 GB eMMC module |
| Networking | 2.5 Gbps dual LAN ports |
| OS | N/A |
Notes
I own three of these Orange Pi 5+’s. This one is currently not in use.
Pine64
| Machine | ROCKPro64 |
| CPU | Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core (dual ARM Cortex A72 and quad ARM Cortex A53) 64-bit |
| GPU | ARM Mali T-860 quad-core GPU |
| RAM | 4 GB LPDDR4 |
| HDD | 128 GB eMMC module |
| Networking | 1 Gbps Ethernet, Built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac with Bluetooth 4.01 |
| OS | N/A |
| Machine | Quartz64 |
| CPU | Rockchip RK3566 Quad-core ARM Cortex A55 64-bit |
| GPU | ARM Mali-G52 2EE Bifrost GPU @ 800 MHz |
| RAM | 8 GB LPDDR4 |
| HDD | 128 GB eMMC module |
| Networking | 1 Gbps Ethernet, Built-in WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac with Bluetooth 5.0 |
| OS | N/A |
Notes
I bought the ROCKPRo64 in January 2020, and I’ve used it quite a bit since then, for various things. I stopped using this board because some component on the board makes an annoying tinnitus-like ringing sound when power is applied to it.
I don’t recall exactly when I bought the Quartz64, but I estimate around 2022 or so. I was running NetBSD on it for a while, but for the most part I haven’t used it for any major homelab tasks. As of this time, the operating system selection is kind of lacking.
Raspberry Pi
| Machine | Raspberry Pi 400 |
| CPU | Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.8 GHz |
| GPU | N/A |
| RAM | 4 GB LPDDR4-3200 |
| HDD | 64 GB microSD card |
| Networking | 1 Gbps Ethernet, Built-in WiFi 802.11b/g/n/ac |
| OS | RetroPie |
Notes
I’ve used this machine for other tasks in my homelab, but by far my favorite use for it was as a retro-gaming station with RetroPie.