Comments on: Supermicro X12STN-E Review Hard Drive Sized SBC with Crazy Features

By: querng dooly

querng dooly — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 05:31:19 +0000

The “point” of SBCs, as claimed by Puget and various other companies, is that their tightly integrated and optimized hardware configurations, made possible by locked-in CPU/GPU/SoC configuration compared to conventional commercial ITX and other modular standards, provide efficiency, reliability, and/or performance benefits compared with their modular equivalents.

I say prove it. In a real way. A real test that compares a modest range of SBC hardware running low power and high power systems, that you might find in low-access infrastructure vs signal processing or radar.

Prove it over a test sample that provides data that is reliable enough to definitively settle this for an entire industry.

By: Park McGraw

Park McGraw — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 14:54:19 +0000

Fazal Majid February 16, 2022 At 8:11 am
The bayonet DC connector is an excellent idea I wish more PC makers adopted.

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to: Fazal Majid
It does not look like a bayonent style e.g. BNC, receptical, but rather a typical, threaded 5.5 x 2.1mm adapter. A sort of poor-man AMP connector minus being slot keyed, that started to come out in mass from the 1970’s with desktop calculators… and like devices that used wall transformers. The connector is used in the cinema industry such as small monitors, Ninja V.

By: spuwho

spuwho — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 06:10:23 +0000

@Sleepy;

There are still a large number of industrial devices that use serial interfaces for control purposes on the factory floor. I wish you nothing but the best as you await that Intel product, code named: Purple Squirrel, that will meet your kitchen sink of requirements at a Pi price needs.

@Patrick: At least the BIOS sticker spelled “AMERICAN MEGATRENDS” correctly this time.

By: Malvineous

Malvineous — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 03:22:16 +0000

I found another Easter Egg! On the second page above the last image it says “inadvertantly” instead of “inadvertently”.

By: Rupert Walker

Rupert Walker — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:58:57 +0000

Great idea having the power so it can’t be accidentaly removed but then they just use a switch on the front with no sheilding!

By: Sleepy

Sleepy — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:47:20 +0000

@YOs

I can improve on your snark by saying:

– Not enough SATA ports (or SATA ports are so yesterday, why bother)
– Who still uses DB-9 connectors and RS-232?
– No PCIe 3 or 4 slots? Not gonna buy it for that reason.
– WTF! No i7 or i9 option!! How lame!!

And finally:

– Nice, but I’ll wait for “product Z” to come out. Intel says it will be released in XXXX after they build that ?nm FAB that they have been promising.