On 28/11/2020 11:56, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 28/11/2020 11:33, Mike Scott wrote:
>> I currently use an old i386 machine as home server (everything from
>> local NFS file-store, to bind, to email server). It's an acer aspire
>> r3700, running at 1.8GHz, 2 proc/4 thread job. It runs freebsd
>> headless, and I use vnc for day-to-day operations on it.
>>
>> I'm contemplating replacing with a rpi4, which I gather is now
>> supported by freebsd, using a usb3 external hard drive. But is this
>> likely to prove slower or problematic for any other reason?
>>
>> TIA for any thoughts.
>>
>>
> You really do not need a lot of power on a server that isn't running may
> applications. I suspect the bottleneck would be USB disk drive speed.

It will still be quicker than the old PATA drives on a old 386 system.

My Pi4 which I use as an NFS file server with a USB attached 2.5" hard
drive and it does about 100MB/s locally and 50MB/s over the network.

---druck

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