On Vi, 26 sep 14, 09:05:32, Paul Lewis wrote: > > In this case I have a Trendnet IP camera which will write to an NFS > share. I was looking for a server device that would be quieter and > consume less power than a conventional machine that I might be able to > run in a headless configuration. The Raspberry Pi seems to fit the > bill. > > Throw in a couple of cheap usb drives and it seems to be a very > workable fairly inexpensive system.
Beware I/O performance is horrible and the Raspberry Pi may even crash under load. I had to cap torrent downloads to 1 MiB/s to get stable operation. Of course it doesn't help that the ethernet is also connected via USB (internally). There are other cheap devices out there with SATA. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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