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This is probably a noob question, but i'm going to ask it anyway - what's the difference between Zima and Rpi (100$) and such (I know there are hardware differe
by Protostome 3y ago
This is probably a noob question, but i'm going to ask it anyway - what's the difference between Zima and Rpi (100$) and such (I know there are hardware differences, but do you really need intel quad core CPU for NAS?)
- derekp7 3y agoDepending on your use case. For example, I was using a RPi 4 with a large external drive to receive backups over ssh. Come to find out, the performance bottleneck was ssh encryption overhead -- ssh server is single threaded, so it only used one cpu core, and got about 20 MB/s instead of the expected > 100 MB/s I can get out of even a low end x86 board. On the other hand, a RPi 4 was cheap enough that if you needed to work on someone's Windows box, you can plop one of these down to get them "back in business" real quick for browsing the internet, video streaming, email, etc.