On 30/11/2020 19:46, druck wrote:
> 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.
>

Mi rPi4 Samba file server using two USB attached drives gives:

SSD I get 345 MB/s local read, 110MB/s over the network read&write.

I get slightly slower than you for a very old laptop 2.5" HDD. 90 MB/s
local, 45MB/s network.

Local was measured using hdparm.

I'm curious as to why the 2.5 HDD is only half speed over the network?

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