I am really interested in seeing if we can standardize on Raspberry Pis as the Official Public Node of NXT and deploy a lot of those all over the world rather than renew a bunch of more expensive VPSs that got us thru the initial late Dec crunch. I have heard different things about it - it can definitely forge blocks, it's underpowered for the task, it works better if you plug a thumb drive in the USB port to give it more memory, it needs to be replaced by a Cubie. I would like to pull all this together and come up with a definitive answer on a Raspberry config that is qualified to be a Service Node without running out of horsepower. Dave, your thoughts?
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If we're thinking of deploying embedded servers like Rpi instead of VPS, I'd suggest we consider
Odroid-U3. It's only marginally more costly than Rpi, but have far better tech specs. I've been running one for weeks and it works like a charm.
I'll get one on order for myself and play with it. Can it use the Raspberry Pi software setup as is or did you have to tweak it? Have you heard when large quantity orders will be allowed instead of single units?