Sweet 
then 4 of those in raid5 ?
If meant for OMV or NAS I guess the extra speed won’t matter as your 1GBe bandwidth is saturated already but the redundancy -and if zpool - self healing fs properties will be nice.
Void linux on Rock pi - is it possible?
Yeah just testing that they will and how it handles multiple disks prob a stripe, 5 & 10 just for benches.
But really the dest is HDD but if it can handle these on expected benches then should pretty much expect HDD max.
Its a shame the g_ether gadget transfer is a bit stinky forgot what it was and guess will have to try that again.
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What do you get from your Evo spacecruiser with iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 ?
Will give it a run tonight when home from work and let you know 
Btw, also ordered the 16gb emms and usb3 key. But if I can boot from m.2 after flashing I guess that will be moot?
Still haven’t worked out if you need spi nor or not if you have 1.3 version then its a solder job as its missing.
But the Manjaro guys seem to think you can do it without via uboot, but how slightly confused.
But answer is yeah you can its sort of new and needs a fix but answer is yeah.
I have the version 1.4 of the board, so the SPI should be there, but dont understand why only debian/ubuntu would be supported from this thread: SPI + NVMe booting
Got confusing I thought, so might just stick to the eMMC for kernel boot when it gets here, and then put the root on the m.2
Its not just debian or ubuntu just that Radxa only support debian or ubuntu in the packages they publish.
You might need debian or ubuntu to use the flash utility to get the mini bootloader onto spi nor but after that its done.
The Rk3399 3rd check after SD, eMMc is spi nor and if there it loads that and basically that minibootloader just passes to SSD.
Have not got either m.2 or v1.4 so haven’t tested or got involved but there is no reason why you should need emmc or sd if you have spi nor and m.2 storage or usb.
It should just be a matter of
https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/Linux_system_runs_on_M.2_NVME_SSD
You can do it like android via USB OTG or 2nd method on the system live
http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Boot_option
But to be honest the above is highly confusing but yes it can.
All you are doing with the installs is making sure the system is up to date with the new uboot for root m.2 ssd.
Read up on DD as you just clone what you have then pull out SD / eMMC
The Manjaro guys got hdmi audio patched in and just grabbing some gear to work on pcie
http://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_SPI_flash
PS if you can give iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 a go.
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thanks, yeah really should not be as confusing as it currently is 
maybe it is just that there are too many ways to do it, so I get them mixed up or think I need to do more than one thing.
I will be checking the iozone later, just still at work for another 8-9 hours. (I’m GMT+9 so 11am here …and yes, I should be working and not reading on forums right now LOL
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Cheers mate if you ever get the chance use putty and ssh so its text as much easier to share, but many thanks.
Approx 650MBs W/R aint bad is it
yeah 650mb/s aint bad
I was actually using ssh to the box, it is just that if you include all the text output instead of a screenshot, there is a large amount of unused parameters starting from “bkwd” and further to the right, so felt is was easier to read if I just did a quick screengrab of the term that had the output formatted as I was seing it. Also avoids the forum doing text wrap etc.
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[quote=“stuartiannaylor, post:22, topic:1272”]
Command line used: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
Output is in kBytes/sec
Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes.
Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
File stride size set to 17 * record size.
random random bkwd record stride
kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread
102400 4 70395 70811 92238 92886 46631 70865
102400 16 141961 200984 236280 237984 147557 204966
102400 512 500244 536614 466642 479526 467919 536983
102400 1024 529906 542864 483609 489514 483614 542280
102400 16384 652449 670618 628992 654369 644341 665665
Blockquote```
start with 3 of them new line and end with new line 3 of them
Not sure how much markdown is available the three
Blockquote ```
is about all I remember
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So, you have a bunch of servers in your home you want to access from outside.
What exactly is this board’s purpose? Seems like what you are doing is something you could more easily (i.e. “Free”) do using one of those existing servers, or just by running openwrt on your router if your goal here is to save power by keeping the server(s) off when not in use.
Haha sorry I know it is not clearly defined.
It’s a big blob of different things I would like for it to do.
Currently I have an unraid NAS server running, but have been unable to get it to do spindown of the disk due to it running a bunch of other services like docker, VM’s etc (despite being run from a separate m.2 in the machine separate from the array) so I have decided to move anything but file sharing services off to other servers I have.
(Note the openwrt looks interesting, thanks for sharing)
Alsways better to have a separate server running for controlling network etc as if the server running is also your access to the network goes offline for some reason you also lose the access to fix it I thought
(Necessary? Maybe not, but what the heck figured it could fulfill that too in the future some day)
To begin with, it will just be for me to play around with and test different things on. It will also be my office Linux desktop and I have a permanent monitor connected and a USB kvm connected for control.
I have a separate raspberry pi 3b that can handle the outside access for now so there is no rush I getting the rock pi us and running for that purpose which is why I am still just playing around and testing on the rock :). (The rpi is running openhab for IoT control)
I guess, really I was just excited about getting a easily cooled (no cover) solid state, non-intel based, responsive but low powered with 1gbe NIC and 4k@60hz output device as an linux desktop for home to play with
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@LucidScrubJay hey just a thought and presuming you did but not sure on max speed of pcie gen1 x4 did you edit /boot/hw_intfc.conf
So that #intfc:dtoverlay=pcie-gen2 = intfc:dtoverlay=pcie-gen2 = gen2?
Actually no I did not touch that. Will have a look tonight
Yeah I suddenly thought that I had been presuming so because my sums where 2 lanes like my sata but actually your results could be x4 gen1.0.
I dunno but yeah should be enabled and a reboot and iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
Again should show if there is any diff might be just as capable x4 lanes gen 1.0 as still no bottleneck
okay so enabling the gen2 as recommended I get the following:
Command line used: iozone -e -I -a -s 100M -r 4k -r 16k -r 512k -r 1024k -r 16384k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2
Output is in kBytes/sec
Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes.
Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
File stride size set to 17 * record size.
random random bkwd record stride
kB reclen write rewrite read reread read write read rewrite read fwrite frewrite fread freread
102400 4 52099 77524 104207 105324 48114 78504
102400 16 160544 231475 276300 278531 160180 233806
102400 512 738881 809485 685261 707192 676594 811610
102400 1024 795915 841642 708547 730494 693498 851120
102400 16384 1111519 1167200 1098700 1139913 1110364 1193693
iozone test complete.
So this does actually improve things a little bit
Crikey batman lols bet your glad you tried that.
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haha yep, anything else I should try while I am at it?
tried pasting the fio stuff from the other thread in there and letting that run now…
Thats awesome! if they get that up and running, they definitely deserve a pizza and a beer
Not sure the OMV is a meaningful OS for me ? is it not geared towards NAS with multiple disks etc?
(please correct me if wrong)