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to: ROB MORLEY
from: D.M. PROCIDA
date: 2017-05-07 16:29:00
subject: Re: Pi Zero W throughput

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Rob Morley  wrote:

> On Sun, 7 May 2017 11:12:03 +0100
> real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote:
>
> > A Raspberry Pi 2 has been doing fine as a Time Machine backup server
> > running over wireless over a few days.
> >
> > On that basis, can I assume that if swapped in a Pi Zero W, it would
> > be similarly up to the job? The Pi is powering the 2.5" external USB
> > drive.
> >
> You should be able to answer that by checking the CPU and RAM usage on
> the Pi2 - if it can get by on half the RAM and only one core ...

I would expect that to be fine, it's more I/O hardware that I was
wondering about.

Daniele

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