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Orbi RBK50 with and without USB 2.0
Can anyone explain the differences between the Orbi RBR50 that have USB2.0 port vs ones that do not? As far as I can tell there is no difference in terms of features and hardware specs. Only differ...
Memory is mostly for logging and platform for FW load. More room for FW as FW may get larger in size. I guess NG figured that since FW and operations worked with out maxing out v1 memory, that it's cheaper to remove some memory that was probably not being used. It won't effect performance. Most other routers use about the same amount of memory as v2. They are what they are. Nothing changing anytime soon. Orbi AX is next platform.
Looks like there is v1 and v2. I can only see that v1 has Memory: 4GB flash and 512MB RAM where as v2 has Memory: 512MB NAND and 512MB RAM. Honestly, not sure what that means, so can someone please explain?
NAND is a type of Flash memory, so in this case they are refering to the same thing for storage memory.
I have the RBR50 v1 with the USB port. Going to the http://orbilogin.com/debug.htm page shows that I have 512MB of memory and 4GB of Flash storage (round up from the 495MB number seen on the screen due to some memory reserved for the OS). Below is a screenshot. Can someone with an RBR50 v2 go to their debug.htm page and capture the same data? It seems odd to me that the v2 would have significantly less Flash memory for storage (512MB) than the v1 (4096MB).
