Yes, that sounds about right, but the cost of a few PIs is most likely cheaper then a desktop.
Monitors and RasPis
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My old office did that with cheap Android sticks (search for "mk808") and later upgraded to Chrome boxes. The Android sticks worked pretty well. They ran their built-in browser permanently pointed at a web page we set up to display various status and alerts, updating a few times a minute (someone else set it up, so I don't know if there was any sort of push update).
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mikho
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Depending on the infrastructure and company policy and if you could find other uses, a desktop could still be the right choice
drmike
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@willie, how were those mk808's? Work well? Long been interested in them / newer models. Haven't tinkered with one yet.
The ones we had worked pretty well in 720p. There was a suspicious-looking firmware upgrade for 1080p that required running some equally suspicious binary blob under Windows to load the firmware into the stick, so I never ran that. It might be possible to find the source for that thing. I spent a little while looking without success, but with more persistence it might turn up. There are several makes/models of the mk808 and there's some newer ones now, so shop around.
I use my RPi with my 27" monitor without any issue. I mostly run RPITC (Raspberry Pi Thin Client) and my Windows 7 VMs are hosted in various DCs around the country (locally hosted would be MUCH better but under 20ms is still usable).
Here's a video of my RPi connected to a VM in Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpoflazJ-Pg
Here's a video of my RPi connected to a VM in Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpoflazJ-Pg
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wlanboy
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mikho
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Cool project indeed, my mind was on a multiple monitor setup with something more in the line of network or client monitoring. Example: a website /monitor showing statistics or client information.
drmike
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I suspect OP has spare monitor(s) hanging out like most of us
Eased
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That is awesome! I also have not had the time to play with a Raspberry Pi yet, but this makes me want to buy one right away.
How about this ? http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php
$59 / Quad-Core / 2 GB RAM / 1080p HDMI out
$59 / Quad-Core / 2 GB RAM / 1080p HDMI out
drmike
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Yeah, that looks pretty awesome at the price.How about this ? http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php
$59 / Quad-Core / 2 GB RAM / 1080p HDMI out
Only catch is international ordering. So mass delay + cost of shipping... Oh yeah, not general availability yet either, kind of pre-order.
No. There is no point as it is not practical in anyway especially when you compare costs to an actual backup node device/system.
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Yes - it works perfectly fine with a drive attached.
peterw
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With a external usb 2 disk? No!
drmike
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USB2 speed would be the limitation along with USB's flakiness and prone to fubaring drives.
For such a beast, there is the Cubieboard that packs a SATA port.
Contemplating a Cubieboard + big SSD for cache and file storage on a wireless network --- as the central out there "on center" storage.
For such a beast, there is the Cubieboard that packs a SATA port.
Contemplating a Cubieboard + big SSD for cache and file storage on a wireless network --- as the central out there "on center" storage.
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