Looks good but it is out of my budget. I am more concerned with cheap used routers (MT7621 / IPQ4019), which should be enough for my personal use.
These dedicated single board devices are much more powerful, even enough for enterprise usage, but I highly doubt if my company can buy them from China. On the other hand, it only takes me 1 week for anything from China to ship to my door.
2GB LPDDR4X
that's a shame. I like my R4S because it has 4gb ram and i can abuse it for my ubiquiti controller via a docker image. 2GB of ram really hurts potential usage of that as a router/nas combo.
https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php?title=NanoPi_R5S
Indeed, I agree with you, but r68s has a 4GB version, which costs about $10 more. The standard version needs RMB 398. About $62, excluding shipping.
R5s looks more refined, I like it, but it's probably a lot more expensive. I predict it will cost more $20-30.
But I'm not going to buy either. My device is enough. The performance of the 3568 is really unattractive. I look forward to a cheaper rk3588 next year
that's not bad for a 2.5gb router. Admittedly 2.5gb switches aren't cheap but if you want an internal network that handles nightly backups its worth considering. (however there is the argument that 2.5gb really shouldn't exist and people should go 5gb or 10gb fibre instead from 1gb.)
For those who are interested here are some benchmarks for the NanoPi-R5S.
you should rename the thread. its now offically the R5S.
actually this OP device is called r68s
Nice device for the price ...
theres another? what did i miss? Ohhh... i see. 2x 1gb WANs
How curious. I'd been following the r5s release but your link is first i've seen of the 4 port version.
The R5S would be better with its SSD for a NAS type usage.
The R68 is more "pure" router but with extra WAN.
As far as I know, I saw a lot of rk3568 development boards here.
R68s, r5s, m68s, h68k series
Let me tell you the general difference: (it's really general, with small mistakes)
size:R68s>>h68k>=r5s= m68s
R68s:65-75$/plastic shell 2g-4g lpddr4 16g EMMC 2x2.5g+2x1g/dc12v
R5s:60-80$/cnc aluminum shell /2g-4g ddr4/8g EMMC /2x2.5g+1x1g/1hdmi/1nvme (poor) /tf card/type-c 5-12v
M68s:70$/cnc aluminum shell /maybe 2G ddr4/8g EMMC /2x1g/1*hdmi/tf card
H68k-a:50$/ aluminum die casting shell/2g-4g/sumsang ddr4/32g emmc/2x1g/sata extra board/1xhdmi/type-c 5V
H68k-b:60$/ aluminum die casting shell /2g-4g/sumsang ddr4/32g emmc/2x2.5g+2x1g/sata extra board/1xhdmi/type-c 5V
H68k-c:70$/ aluminum die casting shell /2g-4g/sumsang ddr4/32g emmc/sata extra board/1x2.5g+2x1g+1xwifi 6e/1xhdmi/type-c 5V
H68k-d:80$/ aluminum die casting shell /2g-4g/sumsang ddr4/32g emmc/sata extra board/2x2.5g+2x1g+1x wifi 6e/1xhdmi/type-c 5V
What does the (poor) refer to on the line for the R5s?
its only x1 pcie nvme so you wont get full speed like a proper nvme drive.
The results are more or less consistent across all three tests without massive variations, and in last we’ve got about 380MB/s for read and write, well below the SSD advertised write/read speeds, and results for ODROID-M1, but that’s because of the PCIe 2.0 x1 interface used in this design, instead of the PCIe Gen 3.0 x2 interface used in the Hardkernel board.
According to their schematic, NVME uses PCIE3.0 1 lane.
seems from benchmark it cant handle more the 1gbit even on 2.5g iface... and its not supported with openwrt?
Not the official openwrt, but they use their own OS version based on openwrt.
https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=7
Is there any work in progress about adding OpenWrt support to NanoPI R5S?
I already purchased a R5S, and while I wait it to be delivered I've started looking at what would be required to have OpenWrt running on it.
I did a FriendlyWrt build but it is a mess. The .config seems to have a R2S profile with some adaptations. I really will not spend much time trying to understand what FriendlyWrt is doing.
On the other hand, github user @kidding9 seems to have created an armv8.mk patch that seems to be a good starting point (which seems to also be reusing R2S DTS file). When I have some free time, I will try applying this patch to OpenWrt to see what happens.
This new review with a new benchmark is more promising. The reviewer was able to achieve 2.35Gbps on the 2.5Gbps ports:
The reviewer noted however that, in order to get the full speed, the following configuration change was needed:
(…) To achieve maximum throughput, delete the pre-configured bridge interface br0, and configure both multigigabit eth1 (LAN1 port) and eth2 (LAN2 port) as standalone unbridged interfaces.(…)
BTW, shouldn’t we split this topic into a new one dedicated to R5S? (this topic is for the R68s….).
I been doing some progress with the rk3568 SoC on OpenWrt and the mainline kernel,I got a r5s yestarday ,I could make it work with some issues with the WAN and LAN1 not working at a full speed , LAN2 is working and I did some tests.
