<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:07 AM, David Anders <<a href="mailto:danders@circuitco.com">danders@circuitco.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>On 08/29/2014 01:02 PM, <a href="mailto:selsinork@gmail.com">selsinork@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On 29/08/14 18:17, David Anders wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">the big question here is how much are people willing to pay for such a lure?<br></blockquote>On one of your google+ posts you replied to a comment saying you wanted to keep<br>the lures simple and low cost, so that they could be done with Eagle, reproduced<br>by others etc.<br><br>I absolutely agree with that. So while I can see uses for all of the things<br>that have so far been suggested for the OpenWRT lure, here's my suggestion:<br>Keep it simple and just do one with two network ports.<br></blockquote><br>right, this would have to be a requirement for any products we create...<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Cost-wise it's a balancing act, if it gets to the point where a mini-itx Atom<br>board and a couple of pci nics is in the same ballpark then will it be worth it?<br><br></blockquote><br>that is my concern here. once you add in all the costs, does the feature set actually warrant purchasing?<br><br>Dave<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list<br><a href="mailto:elinux-MinnowBoard@lists.elinux.org">elinux-MinnowBoard@lists.elinux.org</a><br>http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>