On 2020-12-12, alister  wrote:
> 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,
               ^^^^^^ I wish !!! That should be 1Gb

> IIRC it still cannot achieve full
> performance but it can achieve considerably more than  100mb/s.

You are out of date - Pi4 can do full gigabit and fill the pipe. Unlike
previous Pi's it has native ethernet and seperate USB3 and 2.
This is old news now.

> 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.

or 3 if using a pi4 :-)

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