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On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 4:59 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I may do some mobo hunting shortly. See what little thing I can buy |
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> that is powerful enough. I don't think a Raspberry Pi is enough. It |
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> gets close tho. Biggest thing, I'd need a lot of SATA ports. LOTS of |
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> them. |
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Granted, I had a couple of old cases which lowered the cost but |
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I went to a local computer store and bought used motherboards |
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that came with processors and memory. They were both Core i7 |
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but I paid only about $75 each. I needed power supplies and hard drives |
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so each machine ended up around $350 or so by the time I was done. |
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Each has 2 4TB drives for storage and a 1TB drive for the OS. A lot |
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of used motherboards have on-board VGA and Gb/S networking. |
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These are TrueNAS machines, FreeBSD not Linux, but they have |
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a Linux version now if that makes you more comfortable. |
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I'd stick with AMD64 as it's better tested and I don't think you'll |
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get the network throughput you need to be fast with a Raspberry Pi |
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