I use an odroid u2 as a server at home. It has the same problem as the pi with usb ethernet and disk. but it's fast enough to watch videos over wifi, so that's all I care about.
there are pi like boards that have sata, but the one I saw around the same time I bought the odroid had only one sata port, and I needed 2 or more. If i was going to use it for a small business server, i would want 2 sata ports for raid1. odroid u2 is about $100 usd, quad core arm cpu, quad core gpu, and 2GB ram. looks awesome, very few cases available for it, but that wasn't important to me. It's basically a short business card size pcb mounted onto a heatsink. has an option for a fan for hot environments and overclocking, but it runs fine without, and has an option for what I think they call emmc storage, which from what I can gather is really fast storage with a micro sd interface. With emmc it compiles a kernel in a few minutes. It runs on 5v 1amp (needs a 2amp PS for headroom and to power usb devices) On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:38 PM, David Lyon <david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com > wrote: > I'm really slow to get new stuff. I only just got a sata SSD. > > However, I've seen these: > > > - > > http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Free-PP-Case-USB-2-0-to-2-5-SATA-Hard-Disk-USB-Interface-Converter-Adapter-/181006710919?pt=AU_CablesConnectors&hash=item2a24d73887 > > > That might allow me to connect an SSD. The one I have is really tiny like > this: > > > - www.ebay.com.au/itm/360579278186 > > > It's an indirect path. It has to sit on a SATA convertor: > > > - > > http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SYBA-SY-ADA40050-mSATA-PCI-E-PCIE-SSD-50mm-to-2-5-inch-SATA-Adapter-Converter-/390550912626?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5aeea5fe72 > > It's a lot of adaptors... > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
