PogoPlug v2 pink Vs Raspberry. ?

[Rodney]

How does the CPU of the pogoplug compare to the CPU of the Raspberry as i have no plans for a keyboard or monitor. ?

Thanks

[hpglow]

The main thing you have to realize about the Rasberry Pi is that it has 1 bus, and that is a USB 2.0 bus. Therefore, your NIC and your drives all will be fighting for bandwidth. The processor in it is running at 700 Mhz, but the config.txt files on the R-Pi allow you to overclock and over-volt it. The PP v2 pink has a 1.2Ghz processor and is designed for this type of use, whereas, the R-Pi's Broadcom processor is designed for multimedia use hence the icluded GPU.

Not saying that the R-Pi won't make a decent low end NAS for $35, but I doubt it will touch the PP v2 pink.

Google is your friend...try it sometime.
http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-v2-pinkgray
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

[Rodney]

I couldn't find anything at google to see if the Raspbeey had a newer CPU and maybe a better instruction set even though it's only 700 Mhz , I never considered about it having a single bus so it's a good job i asked for opinions.

Thanks

[telzey]

It all depends upon what you want to do with it.

The Pogo V2 contains a Marvell Kirkwood based on the ARM9 core with no floating-point.
The Raspberry Pi contains a Broadcom BCM2835 based on the ARM1176 core with hardware floating-point.

The Kirkwood is designed for NAS and light server tasks. It has Gb ethernet and SATA ports built in.
The BCM2835 is designed for media playback and games tasks. It has graphics, HDMI out but no ethernet at all.

The Kirkwood is used in a lot of shipping NAS devices.
The BCM2835 is used in the Roku 2.

They're very different beasts.