Solo SE v2 or Solo2?

[Banther]

Hello,
I want to buy an Enigma 2 machine but I don't know which one to choose between two VU+ products: Solo SE v2 or Solo2.

Do you think it is worth spending about 40$ more for Solo2 instead of the Solo SE v2?

Looking at the technical characteristics, here are the differences:
- the Solo SE v2 has an external IR receiver,
- the Solo SE v2 has twice of nand flash memory (512 MB against 256 of the Solo2)
- the Solo SE v2 I think is much newer of the Solo2,

- in the Solo2 you can add an internal hard disk;
- the Solo2 has a VFD display and a front USB.

Display, internal HDD and external IR receiver are not important but may be useful, but what about the half "flash memory"?

I'm not an expert: what is Nand Flash Memory? It may be a limitation to have 256MB instead of 512MB? What changes?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Ev0]

Hello,
I want to buy an Enigma 2 machine but I don't know which one to choose between two VU+ products: Solo SE v2 or Solo2.

Do you think it is worth spending about 40$ more for Solo2 instead of the Solo SE v2?

Looking at the technical characteristics, here are the differences:
- the Solo SE v2 has an external IR receiver,
- the Solo SE v2 has twice of nand flash memory (512 MB against 256 of the Solo2)
- the Solo SE v2 I think is much newer of the Solo2,

- in the Solo2 you can add an internal hard disk;
- the Solo2 has a VFD display and a front USB.

Display, internal HDD and external IR receiver are not important but may be useful, but what about the half "flash memory"?

I'm not an expert: what is Nand Flash Memory? It may be a limitation to have 256MB instead of 512MB? What changes?

Thank you in advance.

If you don't need the vfd display and internal hdd is not important to you, then go for the Solo SE v2 (the tuners are pluggable in this, so you can swap from dvb-s2 to dvb-c/t/t2 also.

However if you don't ever need anything apart from dvb-s2, then you can overcome the limited nand flash by using OpenMultiboot then your flash is only as small as your usb stick