“The Raspberry Pi 5 is a great improvement on the Pi 4, especially with the new PCIE bus allowing expansion using a fast interconnect suitable for NVMe disks, AI accellerators and such like.
The Pi has always been a great compute engine and now the enhanced speed and capabilities make it more and more useful.”
“Noticeably faster than the Pi 4, and doesn't have the weird USB defect the 4 has, that causes problems with some peripherals such as the PICkit 2 and 3 programming tools. I'd say the power button is a little fiddly to use – you have to hold it down and stuff – but aside from that it's a great little machine.”
“It's the Pi I always wanted. I have bought every single version of the Pi. They are all good enough for limited tasks. NFS server, OSMC, Bittorrent server, whatever.
But the Pi5 is a horse of a different colour. I run a Bitcoin node, and I use the Pi to convert video to HEVC. It is fantastic for video conversion. Limited to software conversion only, no hardware encoding yet, but the Pi takes 2-3 days to convert a 2GB video (usually to around 800MB - 1GB).
I just leave it running 24/7, and it has never let me down. No reboots necessary, I just SSH in every day or so and check if a video is ready to SCP out.
A fantastic device. I am buying another with NVME, plus the Hailo AI module. Really crunch some numbers.”
“would have been nice if it worked with the NVME dual or single hat, still trying to figure that one, you would think oredering them together would be a fair requirement that they work together”
