Last Updated on January 18, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
We currently have 3 Rasbperry Pi 3 which we wanted to use for NextCloudPi. For a setup with NextCloudPi with which we can work every day and is reliable and we have also replacement devices if it fails we estimate that it requires around 3 Raspberry Pi’s. For instance of the 3 Raspberry 3 we own and have tested for NextCloudPi, only one works. In the second the card reader is broken and the third does not boot.
We prefrentially would choose Orange SBCs over Pi’s due to negative experiences with Raspberry Pi in the past.
But for Orange we have to build NextCloudPi by ourselves:
https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi
Or install it by a script:
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/safe-to-install-nextcloud-image/147304/4
For Raspberry Pi`s downloadable NextCloudPi images are available.
The delivery time for Orange Pi 5 currently is around 6 weeks indicated on Aliexpress. A Raspberry P4 will be delivered tomorrow to us by Digitec Switzerland, or we can pick it up in the Digitec shop in Zurich as well as soon as it is in the shop.
The Raspberry Pi 4 at Digitec is currently around 60 USD, and it is also available at Ricardo. With a bit of patience we suppose it is there available now for about 30 USD. A year or two before it was sold for up to 200 – 300 USD which was too much for us personally, this SBC is not worth that much.
We decided now to buy new Pi 4`s for NextCloudPi and not the Orange Pi 5. But we will buy the OP5 for NextCloudPi if Raspberry Pi Inc. should go bankrupt or if we make further negative exeriences with Raspberry Pi.