| Rich Freeman on 26 May 2013 03:21:02 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi NAS questions, cont'd |
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Will <staticphantom@gmail.com> wrote: > I would just say use a different device for the NAS like a cubie board or > beagle bone black. The reason being is that the pi (and other ARM v6 > processors depending on the vendor) use the USB bus for the Ethernet > controller. This came up at the PLUG N Pi discussion. That was the recommendation there as well. Honestly, I couldn't see implementing a NAS using any hardware which didn't include: 1. Gigabit ethernet. 2. Multiple SATA/eSATA interfaces. You could probably get away with less if it were just a backup server, but you want a file server to be fast. Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug