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vkaku • today at 6:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

You know, a RPi 5 1GB is $77, 4GB is $109, 8GB is $170 and 16GB is $385. None of it makes sense, especially if anyone starts a reballing shop.

I was looking to try out Joel's TrueNAS on ARM this time with a Pi 5, a PoE and NVMe Hat ... I decided against it and ended up getting a good old cheap x86 compact NAS instead.

The pricing is off.


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aleph_minus_one • today at 6:18 PM

> You know, a RPi 5 1GB is $77, 4GB is $109, 8GB is $170 and 16GB is $385. None of it makes sense, especially if anyone starts a reballing shop.

Reballing the RAM of the Raspberry Pi is blocked by its firmware:

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2380887#p2380...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786689

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761

EDIT: See also https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-ram-lock... linked under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50429356

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