The SheevaPlug was the OG Raspberry Pi released years before the Raspberry Pi that nobody cared about because there wasn’t a media hype around it.
Now the interesting part is: it included an ARM CPU @ 1.2 GHz and it was released in 2009 with dedicated Gigabit ethernet plus another isolated USB chip. Note that the Raspberry Pi was released years later, in 2012, with a 100M ethernet + USB shared chip that was total garbage. They kept selling that garbage until 2019 with the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 that finally came with Gigabit.
Another interesting fact about the SheevaPlug is that there was a variant with an eSATA port once again totally obliterating the Raspberry Pi 4 and making it the perfect low power system for a NAS at the time.
Great news, my Sheevaplug can now cross 2038.
What’s a Sheevaplug? https://lemmy.world/comment/7295421
What’s a sheevaplug?
The SheevaPlug was the OG Raspberry Pi released years before the Raspberry Pi that nobody cared about because there wasn’t a media hype around it.
Now the interesting part is: it included an ARM CPU @ 1.2 GHz and it was released in 2009 with dedicated Gigabit ethernet plus another isolated USB chip. Note that the Raspberry Pi was released years later, in 2012, with a 100M ethernet + USB shared chip that was total garbage. They kept selling that garbage until 2019 with the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 that finally came with Gigabit.
Another interesting fact about the SheevaPlug is that there was a variant with an eSATA port once again totally obliterating the Raspberry Pi 4 and making it the perfect low power system for a NAS at the time.
Wow I forgot about those. Always wanted one but too expensive for me at the time.
I know the feeling, I also had to pay extra customs taxes because I’m in Europa and it was sold by an US company. :(