Raspberry Pi 5 Announced!

Woo its here!

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chrismscotland said:
No didn't buy the PSU, got plenty of USB-C power plugs here, probably play with it initially but I want to see if it will do as a Media Server, I found the Pi4 just a shade too slow but I think this should be fine.
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Waiting for info if it can play 1920x1080 60fps or not on youtube for example without a load of dropped frames.
+1 on the pi4 situation.
 
I'm wondering if I could use a Pi5 to replace my N40L as a file server. Thinking of keeping the case and drive bays from the N40L, and whacking the Pi in. I wonder how the PCIe support will work, hoping to run my TV card from it.
 
niggyg said:
I'm wondering if I could use a Pi5 to replace my N40L as a file server. Thinking of keeping the case and drive bays from the N40L, and whacking the Pi in. I wonder how the PCIe support will work, hoping to run my TV card from it.
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I used an RPi4 as a very basic NAS with a single SSD and using OpenMediaVault. The RPi4 wasn't powerful enough to manage a sustained gigabit transfer so I ended up getting a small Lenovo PC and that is much better. The average speeds are closer to gigabit and sustainable. I am pondering getting an RPi5 when readily available to see how it copes. Could be useful as a basic backup device for my Windows computer.
 
I think I've already seen enough from my Pi 5 to be convinced it would work fine as my Emby Server, both 1080p and 4K content seems to work like a dream streamed to my TV or other devices, although I did see a few dropped frames if I was trying to do something else on the Pi5 at the same time (file transfer mainly).

That said I could see a scenario where I have two - one dedicated to being a Media Server and one setup for more general utilities like hosting my VPN Server, maybe my Docs and Files that aren't media (very little to be fair) although I'm sure a Pi4 would be fine to do that too but would seem silly not to just pay the extra for a 5 now.
 
Feek said:
Mine was at 08:05. The email from Pi-Hut with the announcement came in at 07:03.

@jrwagh333, you got yours in even quicker, any sign of it yet?
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Nothing yet. Got an email update from PiHut, just to say that they would be getting them soon.

There is priority if you had a code from something (never knew about that myself) then it's going in order of order received.
 
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