On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 11:23:01AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 15:11:57 +0100 > Christian Britz <cbr...@t-online.de> wrote: > > > Inspired by my previous attempts to implent NFS on my Synology NAS, I > > am thinking about buying a mini server where I install Debian to > > serve as file share (SMB and NFS) and DLNA server. > > > > It should fully support Debian Stable, have a low price but be capable > > of performing the tasks well, ideally have working WIFI, be silent, > > low-power and small. > > > > Do you have any recommendations for me? > > > > I'd suggest a Raspberry Pi 4B. The requirements you listed elsewhere > would make this a cheap and workable alternative. The only issue is > that any SATA disks would have to be run through a USB 3 port. Using an > SSD might mitigate any lag. I use one of these with a laptop drive in a > Geekworm case to be the web server on my LAN. My wife an I have NFS > and Samba access to the drive as well. You can run Raspberry Pi OS (a > Debian derivative) on it. Matter of fact, I think you can run the > various media server packages on such a rig as well. >
And we can do one better: the raspi compute module and the cm IO board. here you will get a PCIe socket which then can take up a SATA controller. -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
