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Thanks for the advice. Yeah, a NUC would be way overpowered most of the time. A R-Pi and NFS probably solves 90% of my use case.
by NickHoff 9y ago
Thanks for the advice. Yeah, a NUC would be way overpowered most of the time. A R-Pi and NFS probably solves 90% of my use case.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoThe RPi, even the 3, isn't a great choice for networked storage, since the NIC is running over the USB bus. A Beaglebone Black[1] would be similar but have better hardware for the job. 1: http://beagleboard.org/black http://beagleboard.org/black
- peatmoss 9y agoMy understanding is that the Beaglebone Black is also... opener. Or at least it seems like the Beaglebone Black is supported by more operating systems. If, for example, you wanted to run OpenBSD or even Minix 3, BBB is the system for you.
- nonamechicken 9y agoI have a Beaglebone Black with a WD USB 2 portable HDD attached to it. I get only around 5 MB/s while copying (from Beagle to PC) a ~500 MB file over 5 GHz wifi. Not sure if this is because of USB 2.0 though.
- milcron 9y agoPCEngines boxes would be pretty good for this too http://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm http://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
- pletnes 9y agoUSB drives and ethernet share the same bus on RPi so NAS performance is not great.
- tyingq 9y agoA chromebox with a new seabios rom (so it can run a normal Linux distro) would be a decent compromise between those two extremes. I have an Asus chromebox doing this, very happy with it.