[MinnowBoard] mSATA Lure (aka Flotsam Lure)

[Christopher Price]

This really gets into the question of how much Minnowboard will become a production use-case. If people are going to create data centers out of Minnowboards stock - sure, it makes sense.

I’d rather see makers take Minnowboard and create datacenter-friendly versions that can be sold at a profit for the maker, still be a big win for the user, and let Minnowboard lures focus on sparking that innovation.

You could probably juice more than two NIC ports using USB and other I/O than just PCIe. Also I’m not sure what the true bandwidth rating of the PCIe port is on the Minnowboard, if it exceeds 1x or delivers 2x. Bay Trail as a SoC supports up to PCIe 2.0 4x.

Christopher Price
ConsoleOS.com - iConsole.tv

On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:07 AM, David Anders <danders at circuitco.com> wrote:

> 
> On 08/29/2014 01:02 PM, selsinork at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 29/08/14 18:17, David Anders wrote:
>>> the big question here is how much are people willing to pay for such a lure?
>> On one of your google+ posts you replied to a comment saying you wanted to keep
>> the lures simple and low cost, so that they could be done with Eagle, reproduced
>> by others etc.
>> 
>> I absolutely agree with that. So while I can see uses for all of the things
>> that have so far been suggested for the OpenWRT lure, here's my suggestion:
>> Keep it simple and just do one with two network ports.
> 
> right, this would have to be a requirement for any products we create...
> 
>> 
>> Cost-wise it's a balancing act, if it gets to the point where a mini-itx Atom
>> board and a couple of pci nics is in the same ballpark then will it be worth it?
>> 
> 
> that is my concern here. once you add in all the costs, does the feature set actually warrant purchasing?
> 
> Dave
> 
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