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. <div><br></div><div>Another friend has been looking at making a Pi into a NAS and here is what he and I have found:</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Serving files directly from SD flash is pretty slow. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Dan</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 2:04 PM, David L. Anselmi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anselmi@anselmi.us" target="_blank">anselmi@anselmi.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So I want to replace the old dual-PIII server I have with something that uses less power. A<br>
freedombox would be nice :-)<br>
<br>
The server runs Debian for mail (exim, but maybe postfix in the future), mailman, apache, twiki<br>
(changing to something else), ssh, and not much else.<br>
<br>
Can a raspberry Pi do that? I thought they were underpowered but someone mentioned using one as a<br>
file server so maybe it would be good enough. My server certainly doesn't do much.<br>
<br>
I think I'd prefer an Alix board to a Sheeva/Guru Plug but I also think the Pi is cheaper.<br>
<br>
I don't need much beyond 100Mb Ethernet and a way to connect a hard drive (USB2 at least, though<br>
something faster like SATA or USB3 might be nice--or may not matter if USB2 can keep up with the<br>
network).<br>
<br>
Anyone doing real work with a <10w server?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Dave<br>
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