[clue] Low power servers.

[Dan Kulinski]

I received a Raspberry Pi a week ago but it is going to drive my eventual
3D printer that I am working on with my son.

Another friend has been looking at making a Pi into a NAS and here is what
he and I have found:

The ethernet chip on the Pi is routed via the USB subsystem.  This means
that you are sharing time between the Ethernet and any disk you attach.

Serving files directly from SD flash is pretty slow.

If you can live with these limitations you are set.  If you would like to
evaluate something please let me know and I can either loan you my unit or
I can set it up for remote testing.

Dan

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 2:04 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> So I want to replace the old dual-PIII server I have with something that
> uses less power.  A
> freedombox would be nice :-)
>
> The server runs Debian for mail (exim, but maybe postfix in the future),
> mailman, apache, twiki
> (changing to something else), ssh, and not much else.
>
> Can a raspberry Pi do that?  I thought they were underpowered but someone
> mentioned using one as a
> file server so maybe it would be good enough.  My server certainly doesn't
> do much.
>
> I think I'd prefer an Alix board to a Sheeva/Guru Plug but I also think
> the Pi is cheaper.
>
> I don't need much beyond 100Mb Ethernet and a way to connect a hard drive
> (USB2 at least, though
> something faster like SATA or USB3 might be nice--or may not matter if
> USB2 can keep up with the
> network).
>
> Anyone doing real work with a <10w server?
>
> Thanks!
> Dave
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