Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes
On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 11:23:01AM -0500, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 15:11:57 +0100
> Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> > Inspired by my previous attempts to implent NFS on my Synology NAS, I
> > am thinking about buying a mini server where I install Debian to
> > serve as file share (SMB and NFS) and DLNA server.
> >
> > It should fully support Debian Stable, have a low price but be capable
> > of performing the tasks well, ideally have working WIFI, be silent,
> > low-power and small.
> >
> > Do you have any recommendations for me?
> >
>
> I'd suggest a Raspberry Pi 4B. The requirements you listed elsewhere
> would make this a cheap and workable alternative. The only issue is
> that any SATA disks would have to be run through a USB 3 port. Using an
> SSD might mitigate any lag. I use one of these with a laptop drive in a
> Geekworm case to be the web server on my LAN. My wife an I have NFS
> and Samba access to the drive as well. You can run Raspberry Pi OS (a
> Debian derivative) on it. Matter of fact, I think you can run the
> various media server packages on such a rig as well.
>
And we can do one better:
the raspi compute module and the cm IO board.
here you will get a PCIe socket which then can take up
a SATA controller.
-H
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