On Jo, 03 feb 22, 06:35:40, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 3/2/22 5:42 am, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > 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. > > My home server is a nanopi M4V2 with an NVME drive main drive. The boot > partition is on an SD card but everything else is on an NVME drive. > > It has a fan but never gets hot enough to turn it on. Instead the CNC case > acts as a large heatsink. In summer the room temperature is over 30C but > there are no thermal problems. > > O/S is straight Armbian with no tweaks. This makes it more compatible with > mainline Debian than Raspberry Pi OS is. > > Another advantage of the M4V2 over a Pi 4 is four USB-3 ports. With the > USB-3 it would be very easy to implement a fast RAID array. The RockPro64 from PINE64 runs pure Debian, has a PCIe slot that takes a SATA adapter and should run fine with just passive cooling. Availability might be an issue though... Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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