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echo: rberrypi
to: RICHARD FALKEN
from: A. DUMAS
date: 2020-11-29 08:15:00
subject: Re: rpi4 as server?

Richard Falken  wrote:
> The PIs are not great at I/O. They will do for a personal server with a
couple
> of users, but it is not ideal as a server platform.
>
> II don'tknow about the newer PIs, but at least the early ones used an USB bus
> for the ethernet connection, which meant network I/O was limited from the
> start.

Why post if you don't know. The Pi4 has a true 1 Gbps ethernet port and two
usb 3.0 ports of 4.8 Gbps (what others now call usb 3.1 gen 1). This is
possible because the new chip has PCIe (x1).

Also, get Fidonet to fix their clocks.

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