Banana Pi BPI-W2 with Realtek RTD1296 chip design

Banana Pi Router design BPI-W2(RTD1296)
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i see , but SFP module is too big for this board , if you want to use SFP ,you can use 20 PIN rgmii interface to connect

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Hello

Thank you for announcing this interesting piece of hardware. Are you going to release an official case for the board as well? A BPI-R2-like with one or two 2.5-inch HDD slots would be really nice!

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I want to buy this, but no link in taobao or 1688

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here ,have a taobao link:

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What kind of support for GPU can be expected in terms of Linux OpenGL ES libs (fbdev/x11/wayland…)?

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Wait…does it only support OpenWRT chaos calmer? That thing is ancient, will it support the newest OpenWRT release?

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Banana Pi BPI-W2 source code public on github

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image download :

http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-W2#Image_Release

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When it will be available in Lazada.com.ph?

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Realtek RTD1296 Intelligent voice, video processing platform

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BPI-W2 android 6 and android 7 source code:

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I see this board is driven by a 12V@2A power supply! Does 12V get passed through to the SATA ports so this can drive 12V 3.5" drives?

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not sure about 12V line in SATA, but you need to consider HDD power consumption.

I remember having hard time booting on standard 12V 2A power supply - 2x 2.5’’ HDD. Booting started normally, went through all inits. Spinup HDDs … reboot.

It boots just fine when used 12V 3.4A supply (or 2A supply + extra smartphone charger on usb-c).

from sheet I googled for reference just now:image

you might have same issue when trying single 3.5’’ HDD

by the way - this is my drive spec to complete this answer: image

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I currently use a GnuBee PC2 with 6x IronWolf 2T drives powered from a 12V@10A brick. It has issues if I have all 6 plugged in at poweron, but runs fine with all 6 after the first 5 spin up. According to Seagate’s datasheet https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/ironwolf/files/ironwolf-pro-ds1914-3-1701gb.pdf they pull 2A (24W) each on startup, but run less than 8W (<1A) after started.

I really just want a SBC that plugs directly into a 3.5" drive (12V) and ethernet, ideally with PoE so there’s only a single cable. A literal network attached storage. I’d be ecstatic if the SoC could handle ZFS for a large TB drive and still run some services, but I’d still be happy with an energy-efficient potato SoC. Sadly, it seems there is currently no such SBC on the market.

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Yes, 12V is connected to the SATA socket through a MOS, which can directly drive a 3.5" hard disk

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I kind of found something similar in [OpenWrt Wiki] Blueendless U35WF which is definitely a potato.

I’d love to get a BPI-W2, but it doesn’t seem to have any software support. And I mean upstream. I’d settle for OpenWrt image (I can probably do enough with it), but really prefer a modern debian, but at least according to W2 Image Map - Banana Pi Wiki there’s a lot of unfinished support even in what is released already.