I was just reading a small blurb about the new "Orange Pi PC Plus Quad Core Development Board" which supposedly will sell for $20 and will include 8GB eMMC flash memory on the board itself. Since I'm not that familiar with memory types I just wondered if eMMC memory is more reliable than SD cards.
The problem with running a small PBX on a Raspberry Pi is that if you don't take extreme measures to minimize SD card writes, in particular by disabling most of the logging performed by Asterisk and FreePBX, the SD cards have a tendency to die prematurely. I have an original Raspberry Pi and SD card that's been working for about three years now but I have turned down the logging to ignore all but critical entries. I would just wonder if eMMC memory is any more robust. I think 8GB would be enough to run a small PBX with just a few extensions.
The larger problem would be whether any existing software would run on an Orange Pi. I suppose it's just different enough from a Raspberry Pi that if you tried to install RasPBX, or the XiVO build for the Raspberry Pi, it would probably crash and burn. But it sure would be nice to be able to build an inexpensive, fast, and hopefully reliable PBX that would not depend on an SD card for storage.
This is the article I was reading, and for the record I have nothing whatsoever to do with this company that makes these, in fact I have never even seen an actual Orange Pi:
http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/06/09/orange-pi-pc-plus-quad-core-development-board-with-1gb-ram-8gb-emmc-flash-sells-for-20/
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