Raspberry Pi.... how reliable is it?

[drtek]

Running latest Minepeon with 10 ASICS and 2 BFs - one Freeze per Week

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[madcratebuilder]

If you're running hubs and miners off the supplied power bricks, you're doing it wrong.

Buy a low power ATX PSU, make up adapter cables, run everything off those.  The ATX supplies are more efficient, and don't die after a month.

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That's great advise for anyone running more than 2 or 3 hubs.  The atx psu I modded could handle my load until I exceeded 40 usb erupters.  Most PC PSU's only have a 20-25 amp 5 volt bus, they are limited. I use a 5 volt 50 amp Mean Well industrial psu now.  The MW runs 64 sticks without generating a lot of heat and it's quiet, and they are cheap.

[Samir_H]

Beagle Bone Black and Cubieboard are wayyyyyy more powerful and more stable (I'm testing the BBB for months, incredibly stable, and the Cubieboard for like a week only).
I don't imaging running my miners on RPi anymore, they are not as stable (I think it's because of the SD Cards... both BBB and Cubieboard have embedded MMC).

SD card is problem with RPi especially if power is not stable. If power goes off SD card gets corrupted almost every time.

I don't like Cubieboard, drivers are not open source and support is not close to RPi. HW is stronger but without good SW it's just not that.
How long did you have to wait for Cubie to arrive?

[HellDiverUK]

That's great advise for anyone running more than 2 or 3 hubs.  The atx psu I modded could handle my load until I exceeded 40 usb erupters.  Most PC PSU's only have a 20-25 amp 5 volt bus, they are limited. I use a 5 volt 50 amp Mean Well industrial psu now.  The MW runs 64 sticks without generating a lot of heat and it's quiet, and they are cheap.

Most if the hubs I used had a 12V power supply, which was a bonus.

[Xian01]

 I've been troubleshooting a Raspi setup driving a bank of 48 Erupter USB's for a week now, and discovered that CGminer would consistently cause the Raspi to hang after ~24 hours of mining. Best I could tell from the screen sessions I had open, it started failing in the USB subsystem and started slowly taking the system down.

 Since switching to BFGminer on the Raspi, I've been running solid for days now. (Sorry Con Love you man !)