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Add to SafariWhen comparing Orange Pi PC vs Helios4, the Slant community recommends Orange Pi PC for most people. In the question“What are the best single-board computers?” Orange Pi PC is ranked 14th while Helios4 is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose Orange Pi PC is:
The Orange Pi PC is extremely cheap, especially compared to the SBCs it competes against.
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Pros
Pro Extremely cheap for what it promises
The Orange Pi PC is extremely cheap, especially compared to the SBCs it competes against.
Pro Supports almost all OSes supported by Raspberry
Orange Pi supports Raspbian, Ubuntu, Android and many more operating systems. It claims to support all OSes supported by Raspberry Pi and it seems to be true most of the time.
Pro Great value for the price
Great little linux box for the price
Pro 4 X SATA 3.0
Has four SATA 3.0 ports so it can handle up to 48TB of storage (12TB on each SATA port).
Cons
Con Has some thermal throttling issues
The Orange Pi can get pretty hot, up to the point where it needs to shut down cores to keep it from locking up.
Con First Party OS support is practically non-existent
Con no wifi
Con Has problems with slow microSD cards
Anything less than a class 10 TF/microSD card will probably not work with the Orange PI. Since the testing and production of the Orange Pi was rushed massively, as a result it cannot step down to be more compatible with slower SD cards. Although it should be mentioned that this is not that much of a problem since you can get class 10 microSD cards for pretty cheap nowadays.
Con No video connector natively
Must use RPIO equivalent to wire any video.
Con The project fall down
Con No battery or UPS
A PC tailored for NAS usage should have a battery or UPS to prevent data corruption after a power loss. A tiny battery to safely shut it down would be enough.
Con Company shut down business!
See their website-shop.
Con Expensive
After the preorder It is expensive now.
