On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:33:09 +0000, Mike Scott wrote:

> Hi all; a quick query about speeds.
>
> 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.

Late to the party but my thoughts would be

Network on I386 is probably 100mb/s at best so will be the main bottle
neck in your current set-up (actually network speeds are nearly always
the bottle neck on a network server.)
the pi has a 1000gb interface, IIRC it still cannot achieve full
performance but it can achieve considerably more than  100mb/s.

therfore performance will be better than your current set-up even if it
is not as good as a dedicated NAS

in a domestic environment how critical is this anyway?

as always it boils down to fast, reliable, cheap - choose any 2.





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