Re: netbook hardware recommended for USB3.0 terabyte ZFS?
Hi,
if you like a homeserver on low budget, why not buy an rapsberry pi?
greetings
On 09/30/14 12:17, Roman Czyborra wrote:
> Hi, I plan to purchase a (space-saving, outage-surviving-battery-laden,
> terminal-controlled) netbook with gigabyte RAM and USB3.0 high-speed
> access to my external terabytes and plan to create a Zettabyte File
> System on it that is then served via wired fast and wireless Ethernet
> and not spend too many or to few euros on it.
>
> http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/lenovo-ideapad-g505-59418215-a1097257.html
> lists that amd64 with 4GB+8GB+500GB and 2y warranty as costing €240.
> Would you recommend
> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/G505 on that FreeDOS
> machine even if my experience with Lenovo ThinkPads is that non-free
> wireless firmware taints the Linux kernel non-free?
>
> The single http://www.notebooksbilliger.de/aspire+one+725+c7xbb for €180
> would save me €60. But it comes with half the RAM and half the
> warranty.
> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Acer/AcerAspireOne725/wheezy
> tells me about the required newest kernel and non-free firmware for the
> ATI HD 6290 graphics but calls everything else perfect with that.
> Wonder if ZFS-FUSE's many processes willnot clog near badly as my 512M
> ThinkPad to gain the advantage over Linux's native ext4 XFS btrfs
> claimed by
> https://web.archive.org/web/20140904203458/http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/corruption-fast08.pdf
> https://web.archive.org/web/20120425142508/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2011-May/048159.html
>
>
> http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/toshiba-chromebook-cb30-102-plm01e-004008gr-a1055341.html
> is another contestant for €250 with plain Intel chips and two USB3
> outlets and no internal disk but I get the idea that there might be
> hidden problems in
> http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Toshiba/Chromebook like in
> http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Samsung/ARMChromebook and that
> I would be paying for the amputated ChromeOS and silver design.
>
> http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/asus-transformer-book-t100ta-dk002h-32gb-90nb0451-m00810-a1011563.html
> asks 320€ and does not seem like the right candidate for the home server
> task but for a later touchscreen to develop a Debian experience for
> mobiles with http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/Transformer
>
> Do you spot any obstacles and dangers that I haven't spotted yet or can
> you provide any more experienced advice?
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