{"id":1077,"date":"2024-12-02T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2024-12-19T23:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:55:29","slug":"raspberry-pi-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/raspberry-pi-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finally got a Pi after hearing my cousin talk about it a few times over the past few days.  I so far am amazed at the performance to price ratio.  Below are benchmark results for it and the thecweb.com server(which is quite old really).  For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0D2WYFS23?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&amp;th=1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0D2WYFS23?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&amp;th=1\">~$125<\/a> it is a steal.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Benchmark<\/th><th>thcweb.com<\/th><th>pi5<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>CPU<\/strong> <br>events per second <\/td><td>1062.19<\/td><td>2730.24<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Memory<\/strong> <br>MiB\/sec<\/td><td>6025.36 <\/td><td>3649.76<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>File IO<\/strong> read<br>MiB\/sec<\/td><td>19.10<\/td><td>9.46<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>File IO<\/strong> write<br>MiB\/sec<\/td><td>12.73<\/td><td>6.31<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the pi5 appears to be much faster than the Intel Core i5-4570T running thecweb.com.  But, not surprisingly the pi5 can&#8217;t compete with the memory and file io.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since it has 8 GB of RAM and CPU to spare, I installed all the recommended software when I copied the OS to the SD card.  It comes with some lightweight window manager I don&#8217;t recognize and a few useful tools for updating the Pi and what not.  Debian based to nothing new for me there.  I moved the webcam over to it from thecweb.com and installed Motion.  It seems to work fine.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far I really haven&#8217;t had much fun setting it up.  Too easy.  But, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be tearing my hair out once I get to the electrical side of things.  It has been over 20 years since my time a Devry.  And I was a real shitty student.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a Pi after hearing my cousin talk about it a few times over the past few days. I so far am amazed at the performance to price ratio. Below are benchmark results for it and the thecweb.com server(which is quite old really). For ~$125 it is a steal. Benchmark thcweb.com pi5 CPU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,50],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linux","tag-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}