Odroid C2 (and C4)

[philippe_44]

I have an Odroid C2 that I've not used much these days (it's part of a 4-SBC cluster running k3s on armbian) and I had to test something aarch64 for LMS so I decided to use it.

I had to recompile the CPAN modules for LMS as aarch64 nightly does not support Perl 5.30 but it went totally smooth.

Well I forgot, although it's a 2016 design, how fast it is! It's amazing. My main LMS runs on a 3B+ and that C2 is lightspeed in comparison. I've decided to order a C4 to see and if stable, I'll definitively move my LMS there

[mherger]

> Well I forgot, although it's a 2016 design, how fast it is! It's
> amazing. My main LMS runs on a 3B+ and that C2 is lightspeed in
> comparison.
What parts of it do you believe are faster? CPU related or IO?

I have a Rock64 ("RK3328 Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53"), but it never really convinced me as a LMS machine reading the files from the same NAS as the Pi.

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Michael

[philippe_44]

> Well I forgot, although it's a 2016 design, how fast it is! It's
> amazing. My main LMS runs on a 3B+ and that C2 is lightspeed in
> comparison.
What parts of it do you believe are faster? CPU related or IO?

I have a Rock64 ("RK3328 Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53"), but it never really convinced me as a LMS machine reading the files from the same NAS as the Pi.

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Michael

I would say faster CPU/memory interface. The LMS interface is more reactive and starting to stream a YT or another one line service is faster. You know that YT start does a lot of things (CPU intensive) before being able to stream actual audio.

The C2 has always been ahead every time I used it but at the time I got it aarch64 support was limited so I was not ready to use it for LMS.

I have not compared to my pi4, I have to say.

[slartibartfast]

I would say faster CPU/memory interface. The LMS interface is more reactive and starting to stream a YT or another one line service is faster. You know that YT start does a lot of things (CPU intensive) before being able to stream actual audio.

The C2 has always been ahead every time I used it but at the time I got it aarch64 support was limited so I was not ready to use it for LMS.

I have not compared to my pi4, I have to say.

I used to use an Odroid U3 which was also fast. It used eMMC memory as well as a fast processor. Unfortunately an on board surface mounted fuse blew for no obvious reason and it has been in a drawer ever since.

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[Roland0]

I moved LMS from a RPI3 to an Odroid HC2 some time ago. LMS is 3-4 times faster on it.
For my use case, the disk enclosure is brilliant - no external drive for the music library required. And it doubles as a heat sink for the CPU, which works very well.

The main disadvantage of the Odroids (I have a C2 as well) is the software support (HC2 is stuck on kernel 4, C2 on 3 (unless you don't need graphics, then it's 4)) and ecosystem

[paul-]

I stopped using Odroids because of the lack of kernel support. I started in the C1 days, it had better peripheral interface (Disk/USB)

as for aarch64, I never noticed much different when running a 64bit kernel on a RPI4 with 32bit Userland. But there is a noticeable improvement on a RPI4 with a pure 64bit OS vs the 32bit.

But agreed, music access on a NAS is a wash.

[mherger]

> But agreed, music access on a NAS is a wash.

Can you please translate this for me? Do you want to say that using a
NAS would be the same on both?


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Michael

[paul-]

lol. That phrase doesn't translate well.

Yes, they are about the same in subjective tests. I've not done real benchmarking.

[florca]

Another Odroid vote, an HC1 in my case, which has worked flawlessly running Armbian for the past few years. Now on a 5.4 kernel, Debian Stretch, LMS 8 and no issues at all other than wishing I'd waited until the HC2 was available...

[philippe_44]

I stopped using Odroids because of the lack of kernel support. I started in the C1 days, it had better peripheral interface (Disk/USB)

as for aarch64, I never noticed much different when running a 64bit kernel on a RPI4 with 32bit Userland. But there is a noticeable improvement on a RPI4 with a pure 64bit OS vs the 32bit.

But agreed, music access on a NAS is a wash.

But if you use armbian, you have the latest & greatest