I believe Jeff is how I heard about Turing in the first place (or at least the first time I saw their stuff working.)
Sure enough he still has the old videos up and I was wrong; it had 7 slots not 6, which means the new one loses almost half its slots, and explains some of my remembered disappointment.
Yeah; they went for expansion over raw compute capacity. It's an odd tradeoff, since I think for my own needs, I would like at least one M.2 slot, and maybe an A+E-key or mPCIe for a 4G/5G modem, but I don't need two, nor USB 3. That, plus going from an 8-port switch chip to more is probably expensive.
The DeskPi Super6C is more compact and IMO a little more compute focused. Both serve a purpose. I do like the BMC included on the Turing Pi 2, and it makes me more comfortable running it in production (easy to re-flash a node remotely if I need to).
I watched part of the video yesterday. I think he had 4 NVMe drives in M.2 slots on the underside of the board.
Their placement of the power supply is also unfortunate. They probably should move the slots over half an inch and rotate the power 90° so it doesn’t block airflow for front mounted case fans.
I believe Jeff is how I heard about Turing in the first place (or at least the first time I saw their stuff working.)
Sure enough he still has the old videos up and I was wrong; it had 7 slots not 6, which means the new one loses almost half its slots, and explains some of my remembered disappointment.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-cluster-...