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That is a damn good looking 3d print wow. My only beef with RPIs as servers is disk I/O is terrible. If that's been solved, I'd love to know! If the SOC has PC

That is a damn good looking 3d print wow. My only beef with RPIs as servers is disk I/O is terrible. If that's been solved, I'd love to know! If the SOC has PCI-E lanes that were accessable externally I feel like the server side would really take off

rwmj 6y ago
The Compute Modules have (optionally I think) eMMC which is not especially fast, but fast enough and appears much more reliable than SD cards. The RPi 4 also has support for USB 3 disks using UAS. I've attached a couple of SSDs to mine. https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/raspberry-pi-4-running-fedora-32/ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/raspberry-pi-4-running...
rixrax 6y ago
I think recent firmwares would allow Sd-card-less pxe boot. I was wondering the other day if you could then run the whole system from RAM disk only and/or maybe mount volumes via iSCSI from SAN (keeping in mind limitations of RPi 1Gb nic). Edit: someone has done this already. Of course! :) ( https://tech.xlab.si/blog/pxe-boot-raspberry-pi-iscsi/ https://tech.xlab.si/blog/pxe-boot-raspberry-pi-iscsi/ )
- 0x426577617265 6y ago
  Could also use the sd card to boot only, then pass everything to a USB3 SSD.
  - xtat 6y ago
    or just boot usb :)
kingosticks 6y ago
Yes, with the compute module. https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/ https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/