<p dir="ltr">In terms of a better but still very cheap board similar to the pi, you could look at the beaglebone black.<br>
It is a newer processor and as I understand it the lan is not USB.<br>
Cheers,<br>
--<br>
Martyn</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 Jul 2013 12:55, "Jim Jackson" <<a href="mailto:jj@franjam.org.uk">jj@franjam.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Will Newton wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jim Jackson <<a href="mailto:jj@franjam.org.uk">jj@franjam.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> So to speak a little PC. Best would be if you could just take any<br>
> >> Ubuntu and put it on the NAS. A Raspberry PI would do it, but is<br>
> >> 'naked' and still requires an external HD.<br>
> ><br>
> > A word of warning about RaspberryPi - Ethernet traffic AND external<br>
> > USB disk traffic SHARE a link from the USN/Ether chip to the ARM chip, and<br>
> > that link is HiSpeed USB 2. So if you are file serving, the data goes up<br>
> > this link from the disk to the cpu, then back down the link from cpu to<br>
> > ether. This link is a serious performance bottle neck. I'd search for<br>
> > RPI USB fileserving benchmarks before committing to using the RPI for<br>
> > anything other than trivial fileserving.<br>
><br>
> Agreed. It's also a pretty bad USB host controller in the Broadcom<br>
> chip which pushes a lot of load onto the CPU. The core used is an<br>
> ARMv6 too which is not that well supported - for example Fedora are<br>
> switching to ARMv7 only and I expect other distros will follow suit in<br>
> coming months and years. A little extra money spent will get you a<br>
> much better board than Raspberry Pi.<br>
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At least the Debain based Raspbian Distro will be available for the life of<br>
the RPI, and is customised for the ARMv6. From what I've seen so far you<br>
will need to pay out at least double - but if you know of cheaper I'd be<br>
interested.<br>
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I reckon the RPI would make a pretty good home DNS, DHCP, NTP, syslog, SMTP<br>
and IMAP mailserver - with maybe a bit of light fileserving on the side.<br>
You could even solar power your server like Rob is doing.<br>
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