Tenrec

Tenrec is a Raspberry Pi 4B

I am setting it up as a build machine

2020-May-09 arrived from Newark

Hardware

• 4GB 4B
• Seeed heatsink kit so cute, had to have one.
• 7" Pi touch screen from Element14
• Multicomp Pro case, clear
• Corsair GTX 240GB SSD
• Startech USB3 SATA3 cable (lsusb id is 174c:55aa with ASMedia ASM1053E chipset)

I drilled a couple holes in the bottom of the case, attached RAM mount hardware.

I am borrowing the USB3 hub that lives in the back of my monitor and using it to power an Apple keyboard and a Startech USB3 SATA cable.

The combination of USB3, SATA3, and a reasonably fast SSD is working well.

Power

I had the lightning bolt low voltage warning until I plugged in only a hub to the USB ports. I am using a 5V 4A switching supply and a USB-C cable. My power meter says it's pulling just over an amp at 5.1 volts.

Software

I have Raspian Buster Lite installed now.

I installed the window environment

sudo -s
dpkg --configure -a
apt update
apt full-upgrade
reboot
apt install xserver-xorg xinit