Hi, I read the article about the PiDrive and like to contribute a bit.
As I am studying electronics and interested in IT and networking stuff, I am familiar with software development and its problems. Unfortunatly I do not like writing code. My contributions are looking towards hardware and networking. Actually I am using ownCloud on a standard x86 server, installed via the ubuntu-packages, without any special config. That is everything i had to do with ownCloud up to now. A typical user :D Nevertheless I want to share my opinion concerning the PiDrive: First of all I have a raspberry pi and a few colleagues also have one, I discovered huge problem with them: our raspberry pi's are eating SD cards, especially by power out-takes! If I would be a user of this device, I do not want to search for the problem and/or buy a new SD card, because my children occasionally pulled out the powerplug. Secondly, the raspberry pi has a bottleneck, its 100Mbit ethernet and its USB port. The CPU has only one USB-Host port and everything, including ethernet and the HDD data has to go thought this. As of today HDDs (and of course SSDs) are much faster than these interfaces. As a conclusion it would be great if there is a second platform (or the RPi is replaced by another SBC). An example would be a platform from hardkernel/ODROID. Those guys supply SBCs with GBit ethernet, eMMC and USB3 options. The USB3 variant called ODROID-XU4 looks great to me. Finally, I just want to make clear, that I will not write any code, as I do not have the right skills and time to do this. Therefore I am not applying for the challenge. I just want to share and discuss my opinions and maybe act as a beta tester for the system. Greetings and good luck everybody! David
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