ebasy Banana_PRO Dual Ports Adapter Splitter, 2 in 1 Headphone Jack Aux Audio and Charger Adapter Cable Connector Compactible for IP7/7 Plus/8/Plus/X

A HUGE advantage at the time that I bought it was that it had multiple independent USB hosts, a separate independent SATA port, and a separate independent Ethernet port. By comparison, the Raspberry Pi's at the time only had a single USB2 host and an onboard hub to share that bandwidth between the 4 physical ports and an onboard USB -> Enet adapter. Big bottleneck for what I was doing!So I traded the Raspberry's support community for hardware capability, to make a multitrack USB audio recorder to a dedicated SATA SSD.With the Pi 4 having two USB3 ports and separate Enet, the Banana Pi is no longer necessary...unless you *really need* onboard SATA. But there are USB3 -> SATA adapters too, which would allow you to use a RasPi 4 for that too, and keep the Raspberry Pi community.Oh, and the WiFi chip on the Banana is absolutely awful. It tries to be a hotspot if you tell it to, and it does work in that mode...for about 10 minutes. Then the connected devices still show a good connection but can't get any data across. Disconnect and reconnect, and that one device can get another 10 minutes or so. It probably works better to use the Banana Pi in client mode, connecting to an existing WiFi network, but my project didn't have a use for that. I was trying to save a box by not having a router for remote control, but I ended up with one anyway because of the terrible onboard WiFi.

Only complaint is about the dual micro USB connections. Since one is used for a power input and the only for OTG, plugging power into the wrong one can fry the device. They warn about this in the manual but seems there should be at least a nominal visual indicator of which is which. Even a small label on the board would be enough. I ended up using a colored marker to put a dot on the one used for power.

I know the Pi has its fans, and believe me I sincerely wanted to be one, but the little guy just doesn't have enough power to replace a regular computer. I very much enjoyed tinkering with it, and setting it up, but in the end it loads web pages desperately slowly, and it has no ability to display a video. As a music player it works OK, but not really much else.What the Pi DID do for me was make me realize I don't need a $1000 computer for my uses. I researched it and now I build my own low-wattage fanless computers with no moving parts that cost nothing to run and cost little to make.

I waited a while before buying this instead of the original Banana Pi. This SBC has a number of features the Raspberry Pi does not. Particularly the dual core CPU and SATA port. But of course, the Raspberry Pi foundation recently released the 4 core Raspberry Pi 2 which has more power. However, this model still has more power then Raspberry Pi Model B+. I was not terribly impressed with Bananian OS distro, however, ironically, there is a Raspbian distro for it; so if you are comfortable with the default Raspberry Pi OS, this is a good choice. One minor detail, either Lemaker... or the Raspian distro for the Banana Pi does not implement the watchdog timer. While most people will never know this, for the power users who plan on using this in project that might require more uptime reliability, this might be a problem. Oh, and the blue activity LED is *bright*, in a dark room its like watching lightening :). All-in-all, I really like this SBC.

MUCH faster than the Raspberry Pi. I had read that the A20/A7 benchmarks 4x faster than the RPi's Broadcom/Arm SOC. Well, I believe it. The Banana Pro is basically a normal computer for a fraction of the cost. Of course, using these devices means that you need to spend time learning how to flash SD cards with Linux distributions, configure them to your liking, and deal with software issues that arise. If you are willing to put in the time and effort to do that, then you have saved yourself a bundle. I think I've written one other Amazon review in my life. I am very impressed with the Banana Pro, so I decided to do another one. Including a picture of the Banana Pro mounted to a birdseye maple stand that I made. There's an SSD on the other side, connected via the SATA cable to the BPro.

I'm using this running Bananian (Banana Pi optimized Debian) Linux, set up as a custom home server system. So far I've been running Samba server, Deluge, and Sickrage (a sickbeard fork), and while this had severely overtaxed the Pogoplug series 4 that I had tried to use previously, it runs without any problems on the Banana Pi. I did put on some heatsinks, but that was more as a precaution then out of necessity, and have a single 60mm fan cooling both this board and a 4TB SATA drive, and haven't had any real heat issues. I have it connected via Ethernet, so don't know how well the wireless works, but overall it's a nice board and the built in SATA really puts it ahead of the other "Pi" based setups.

I have purchased Raspberry Pi's and other small computers like the Radxa Rock and this is by far my favorite its the only one with 10/100/100 Ethernet which for me was a big deal. I can transfer files much much faster on this device than I ever could on a Raspberry Pi. It also supports SATA so if your planning on using this for a home theater media player/streamer then this should do the trick. Amazon also sells the cable you need to use a SATA hard drive. Personally I used an old Samsung 128GB SSD for my storage hdd and its been working great. Make sure you use a good power supply something with at least 2.5 amps if you plan on powering the HDD from the Banana Pi.

DOA. I've had many Raspberry PIs, Wandboards, Cubieboards, etc, but never one that just won't boot from any image. Apparently it doesn't detect that there is an SD card inserted. Waste of time and poor quality control.Google: banana won't boot site:www.lemaker.org

Ofrece un poco mas atributos que una RBP 3 , pero en contra no se tiene tanto de desarrollo de programas por la comunidad , es muy útil si se tiene en cuenta que hay que dedicarle un poco mas de tiempo en el desarrollo de la programación.

Cumple con todo lo ofrecido, sin embargo podría ofrecer una alimentación de energía de 5 y 12 v, esto permitiría interconectar más tipos de componente.La antena no es práctica al instalarla pero funciona correctamente.