Finally the stock is back at Jaycar for 4GB. I was waiting for a while to get one. I know it is not a special deal but I had to get one for my project.
Please grab yours while the stock lasts…
Features:
• 1.5 GHz 4GB 64-Bit Quad Core ARM Cortex-A72 Processor
• On-Board 802.11ac Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 5
• Full Gigabit Ethernet
• 2 x USB 2.0 ports
• 2 x USB 3.0 ports
• Dual Monitor Support (4K resolution)
Absurd for 4g pi 8g would be bargain
This stupid pricing is the norm now. Get used to it.
What do you guys use them for?
Yet another retro gaming console.
Which we never complete any games on, because we don't have time and can't commit to it anyway
It's nice to know at any moment, you could sink hundreds of hours into the thousands of retro games you have at your finger tips, but have no time to actually play.
Home automation. Though I got the Pi 400 so I don't need to go hunting for a keyboard if I ever need to use directly use it.
This. Home Assistant. I sure as hell am not gonna run a full-blown power hungry desktop PC just for Home Assistant.
Can get a $200 NUC from PLE computers which has the same (idle) power consumption but is far faster and more reliable.
@booboo: Pardon my ignorance, which models of NUC should I be looking for — something like this?
https://www.ple.com.au/Products/651244/intel-nuc-gen-7-june-…
(it's important to me that power consumption remains low)
@deadpoet: I was looking at the N5105 based model which is $30 more but has a more powerful processor. It's still a 10W CPU, so I read that the NUC seems to have the same idle power consumption.
I'm proving the concept on a 15 year old Dell laptop first then will get the NUC if it works better than my RPi3!
Just to run plex and torrent server. Pluged into wifi plug so it turns on when i needed. Will initiate download from mobile so i hardly touch it. Basically my personal streaming service 😂
You can do that with Nvidia shield as well. For $150 more though and comes with OS installed, plus better hardware at transcoding 4k
I run a PBX with 3g dongle, Wireguard server, ADSB receiver/feeder, Pihole and homeassist server all on the one 4gb Pi
RaspAP for a Guest WiFi with enough iptables rules to not touch my main network and be on its own
2 Pi's with Pi-hole synced with gravity sync
Docker with a bunch of containers including WireGuard, ddns-updater, logspout, Tautulli
Plex Media Server
Dedicated 8GB Pi with LXD with a handful of Ubuntu containers - serving Homebridge, SMTP Relay, apt-cacher-ng, ansible
Also had one running as a dedicated OpenMediaVault that served as a NAS for Time Machine and also backed up my Pi's, LXD backups, pi-hole teleporter backups. Moved it to TrueNAS on a old desktop PC a few weeks ago.
I use mine for PiKVM and also have a Volumio instance and another for mt32-pi emulation for my MiSTer. Also have a really old original Zero with usb hub velcro'd under my desk to use as a piggyback "usb switcher/charging port" for my Aten KVM (one cable to rule them all). Highly bespoke edge case for my needs to switch between laptop and desktop on-the-fly and charge things that use the older micro-usb type.
I run piHole on mine (it's a very old Pi but still going) - blocks ads across my home network and all devices which hit my wifi. Not 100% effective but pretty good and much simpler than ad blocking on every device individually.
Also used to have a music server on it before I had Spotify. Was a lot of fun setting it up.
not a bargin. should not be on ozbargin.
I think its been an unwritten rule for a while that hard to obtain items get a pass..
it's not unwritten when it's literally written in the book of Microeconomics 101: economies of scale.
not my usual type of read.
I don't see any gin…
Unwritten rule, if the item can sold out within 24hrs, its a bargain.
Damn, that went quick.
Been waiting for stock to replace a Pi 4 I ended up using for work. May as well just get them to pay me for it rather than replacing it at this rate.
Thanks fade, what's your project?
build a WLAN Pi R4. I am a Wi-Fi enthusiast.
the G2 or G3 mini or Lenovo equiv are way better machines albeit three times the size and up to 60w power usage (on the i7 models i believe). I got mine for $160 from ebay, just much much better and more capable machines. My g3 mini (6500t) is like 12W idle and 45w max under load and my pi4 is like 7w max under load.
Even though i own three Pi's I am what you would call a jaded user.
Eben Upton in a recent interview said 60-70% of all Pi's manufactured were being sold to enterprise customers exclusively. So the retail 'maker' has been left in the lurch. He also stated this time next year should see supplier silicon constraints come to an end. But he said this exact same thing this time last year!
I gave up on Raspberry Pi, killed so many sd cards. Didn't matter if it was a cheap SD card or a big name brand one, even using the official power supply as well
Ended up getting a Wyse thin client for about 30 bucks on ebay. Added in a 500GB SSD, which is over kill for what I need
You could have ran the os on a usb coonected ssd.
Too slow. Running an OS over USB? Eeeew.
the Argon one m.2 SATA expansion works well, and that's running off USB as well. hugely improves the SD card burn situation if you run a server 24/7.
What were you using it for… The SD cards just for the os. Read and writes will obliterate the SD card.
Get a 128/256gb ssd for like $40
I run 3 Pi's (2, 3 and 3b+) 24/7 since the day they came out, and have never lost a single micro SD card.
No idea how you have not only found a way to kill one, but "many" cards!?
I killed like once ever 6 month then went to SSD and no issue. I had so many read and writes which probably caused it.
At least 6 SD cards
I'm guessing from the comments, it maybe been too many read and writes
Maybe you got burnt on counterfeit microSD cards as well… they're so prevalent in the marketplace these days. I had to return some obvious fakes from supposed reputable sellers on Amazon.
I trust made in Taiwan more than made in China when it comes to Sandisk cards (yes I know they have factories there too ;))
What application/server were you running, Home Assistant? For something that does lots of writes, you always need to use the "endurance" type SD cards, such as the Samsung PRO Endurance series. Either that, or use an SSD.
I've had a Raspi4 running DietPi and 4x 5TB HDDS in a toaster rack, as a downloader and Plex server for like a year now. Not a single problem.
Perfect use case.for what I wanted, and uses next to no power.
I'm interested in how the toaster rack works, I assume they have their own power supply, but do all the drives interface with the PI via a single USB port?
Any link to the device you use?
Edit: or is it just a NAS?
Yeah it's just usb3 connection to the toaster rack. Orico brand. Has its own power supply.
Some people cry about USB3 connection for HDDS but mines set up to download everything automatically in the background and I can run 4 local 1080p direct plays on the local or stream 2 remote direct plays to family whilst watching something locally and it's fine.
It might even be able to do more streams, I just haven't tried.
Pics please
Similar. I have Pi4 4GB running OpenMediaVault connected to an IcyBox 4xHDD JBOD enclosure. Minimalist and cheap media server. Runs Emby, Sonarr, Radarr, etc in Docker - and serves to multiple device (Shield, phone, pc, etc). Pretty flawless except when OMV occasionally decides to sh!t the bed when updating…
I didn't realise people slept with their NAS's in bed.
Hey, it's been a cold winter! I'm not ashamed.
Woah the raspberry pi 8gig selling so high, man gotta sell mine now it's valuing higher than most Ryzen CPU's, hell it's even more expensive then a gtx 960.
People complaining about SD cards breaking, I wonder why Phones dont have this issue?
Because people using phones dont do constant reads and writes that these PIs do to these microsd cards.
If you want your SD card to last, use it only for the boot partition, which normally doesn't see any writes. Have your boot partition point to the OS partition on another drive, like an SSD.
Modern RPIs can boot directly from USB anyway, so there's really not any need for an SD card. See https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-boot-from-usb/
I know about PIs being able to boot from USB. Was just explaining how people manage to ruin microsd cards on PIs but you never hear about it on phones.
@xoom: I wonder if the system logs are continuously written to SD card in the RPi? That could account for a lot of writes.
I suspect the logs in Android phones are written to a virtual file system, in RAM.
@Russ: That im not sure but all i know no one has ever killed a microsd card in a phone the same way they have in a PI. From the constant read and writes.
this reminds me of the 90s when you could just get a 386 compatibe, or 486 compatible etc. We need an rpi compatible class where you can just buy some commodity kit which isnt the actual rpi but functionally the same.
That will be a bit of a struggle, as there are just too many different varieties of ARM chip now. Too much pressure for somebody to create a new version with the latest ARM chip, leading to incompatibility.
Back in the 90's there was only the 486 and clones, and maybe mobile versions of some of the Pentiums.
If you mean all small SBCs should have a standardized size and shape, and standardized I/O connectors, I agree with you there. About the closest thing currently is to buy an adaptor board to give your SBC an Arduino footprint, and use Arduino hats.
I got my order in last week (within 4 mins of it being on Ozbargain) but just got this from Jaycar :-(
Due to worldwide shortage of Raspberry Pi availability, we’ve run out of stock for your order XXXXX.
Unfortunately, we’re unsure when new stock will arrive so we’ll have to cancel and refund your order. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Just had the same.
They are back in stock at the Fyshwick ACT store. I just walked in and got one.
Underwood QLD and Gore Hill NSW too. I just placed an Online order.
But I didn't, $109 is absurd for a pi.