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Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

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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
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  Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-02-02 15:40 +0100
    Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-02-02 17:00 +0100
  Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Grzesiek <pld@sojka.co> - 2022-02-02 15:40 +0100
  Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-02-02 15:50 +0100
    Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-02-02 16:00 +0100
  Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-02-02 17:30 +0100
    Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2022-02-02 22:50 +0100
      Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2022-02-02 23:40 +0100
        Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-09 12:20 +0100
      Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-02-03 03:10 +0100
  Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-02-02 18:00 +0100
    Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-02-02 20:30 +0100
      Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-02-05 23:00 +0100
    Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-02-02 22:30 +0100
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