[Wylug-discuss] Linux NAS advice.

[Martyn Ranyard]

In terms of a better but still very cheap board similar to the pi, you
could look at the beaglebone black.
It is a newer processor and as I understand it the lan is not USB.
Cheers,
--
Martyn
On 15 Jul 2013 12:55, "Jim Jackson" <jj at franjam.org.uk> wrote:

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