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I'd say: DO! If you are trying to learn how to do these sorts of things but as with everything Pi, don't get your hopes up about speed. Once you are comfortabl
by dazzawazza 14y ago
I'd say: DO! If you are trying to learn how to do these sorts of things but as with everything Pi, don't get your hopes up about speed.
Once you are comfortable you can move on to a better dedicated setup.
- calinet6 14y agoI say, come on, be realistic. This is not a practical thing you're building, it's a fun project that happens to work too. It's like building a model airplane. You don't do it because you need to fly across the country tomorrow in under 6 hours with drink service and a nap, you do it because you can and it's fun.
- bduerst 14y agoExcept it's a fully functional RC airplane that you can fly around your apartment.
- npsimons 14y agoWhat's impractical about it? It's very cheap and easy, and hey, maybe you don't need a faster file server. Hell, some of us with the money and expertise to setup an uber-NAS go with the Pi precisely because it suits our needs just fine.
- mdellabitta 14y agoWhy not build it on older, unused hardware, then. It's not going to help to have to go through all the trouble of getting something going on ARM only to have to start over on x86, for example.
- dazzawazza 14y agoOf course! If you've got older hardware do it on that. The audience for Pi are youngsters who want to play. They don't have an office full of legacy x86, PPC, Mips hardware to play around with. A tutorial like this is a great place for a youngster to start playing around.