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by MobiusHorizons 1214 days ago
I have this same board running freebsd as a NAS. It has been a pretty great experience overall. My main gripe has been that I would really like to be able to run an nvme drive for a cache at the same time as SATA ports, and I haven't found any cost effective PCIE2.0 x4 switches that I could use for that purpose. There is an x1 switch for use with RP4, but it is a shame to lose all the bandwidth.

I'm looking forward to someone making a NAS board on the new RK3588 since that has enough connectivity for everything I want.
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irusensei 1214 days ago
Issue with FreeBSD on RockPro64 and similar boards is that the scheduler doesnt support big.little configurations therefore the OS doesnt make distinctions between the 2 A72 cores and the weaker A55s.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/RockChip#Known_issues

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MobiusHorizons 1214 days ago
It’s true, but performance has honestly been great. It’s still quite responsive over ssh under load.
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