Today I’ve bumped across a couple of interesting tidbits for Raspberry PI Hardware.
First, the general purpose supplier (as opposed to Amazon, of course):
http://www.modmypi.com/
Second, the Raspberry PI does not include a real time clock in the base package. Naturally one can be added:
https://www.modmypi.com/blog/installing-the-rasclock-raspberry-pi-real-time-clock
Lastly, I may be developing a love for good keyboards. Here is a source of a premium keyboard:
http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/UKBD
As I discover future useful resources I’ll either edit this entry, or add comments to it. I sense a new category coming on too!
I’d like to source reliable microSD cards to use with my Raspberry Pi B+. Here is a forum detailing some issues and benchmarking techniques.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4076
microSD cards are sold with a Class rating, which is the sequential write speed in MB/sec. A Class 10 microSD card does sequential writes at 10 MB/sec. Computers use boot media with random writes, so benchmarking is required to determine how specific media handles non-sequential writes. Early reports claim that Class 4 or 6 microSD cards outperform Class 10 cards in use random writes.
After a little research on Amazon (and further examination of the forum, above) I think that my first choice will be the Samsung Pro microSD card. Here is a link to it on Amazon’s site:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IVPU7DG
I am beginning to think that it may be best to push large data operations off of the boot partition to a traditional hard drive connected via USB, so I’ll start another comment thread on that next time.
Apple Mac computers (both iMac and MacBook Pro, at least) have an SDXC card slot. Here is a link to information about the slot, and the cards that one might plut into it. Good information!
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204384