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Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by djsumdog »

Medox wrote: post #46

Depending on the purpose, for example if somebody just wants a compact home cloud, the Odroid HC2 could also - still - be considered: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/ - Half the RAM but double the cores. I'm waiting for some benchmarks to see if the RPi4 is faster and by how much. - Also Gigabit Ethernet and it works great. My downloads are always at 108-111MB/s for the whole transfer. - Not…

I'd love to run something like this, but I recently switched to ZFS which recommends having a lot of RAM (my NAS has 4GB). It's what kept me from going the route of the Helios 4.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by djsumdog »

bscphil wrote: post #40

> 4K! I'm very excited about these upgrades too (especially GigE), but as far as I can tell nothing on this news page specifies whether the Pi will also support HDR output as part of the 4K upgrade. That's most of the practical benefit of 4K - that 4K releases tend to come with HDR10 or DolbyVision support. Anyone know if we can expect HDR output to work? If I knew it supported that I'd be purchasing one right now to…

I haven't been able to get HDR working on my desktop amdgpu + X11. I don't think it's supported in Wayland yet either (let me know if I'm wrong) and the devs in #mpv on freenode said they don't have HDR10 output support either (although mpv can do HDR10 tone-mapping).

For HDR videos, I still play them via my Windows box. I think the current MacOS supports HDR too (and if not, it will get support soon as they have that crazy new $6k HDR screen).

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by kllrnohj »

morphle wrote: post #405
tmikaeld wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which means, 2 ports and two drives (not ssd) should give at least 100MB/s each. Maybe I wasn't clear enough on that. - 1Gbit ethernet - 1Gbit USB 3.0 port 1 - 1Gbit USB 3.0 Port 2 Total: 3Gbit of 4Gbit, having some margin to spare.

It has: 1 Gbit Ethernet over RGMII 4 Gbit PCIe Gen 2 shared by 2 USB 3.0 (so 1x 4 gbps max or 2 x 2 Gbps shared) Total: 5 Gbits, no margin to spare

> or 2 x 2 Gbps shared

Only if both drives are saturated at the same time. But since the context here is a NAS usage, there's a max 1gbps upstream/downstream in the first place so you could comfortably do a 4 drive mirror NAS off of this and not have any bottlenecks on the USB 3.0 -> SATA side of things.

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Post by Marsymars »

bin0 wrote: post #390
PakG1 wrote: post #74

Gigabit Ethernet? I'm tempted to grab a few and try running Pi-Hole for my whole organization (~1200 users) and see how that goes. :) I know you can set up Pi-Hole on Ubuntu VMs. But there's something so attractive to me about running it separate from your hypervisors and closer to the core switch on very very cheap hardware.... Been curious about Pi-Hole on my bigger work scale for a while, this may very well tip me…

This seems like it could start replacing cheap firewall hardware. I believe pfsense no longer requires aes-ni (?), so it seems like a good choice for that.

AES-NI for x86 CPUs was going to be required for the next release of pfSense (2.5), but that requirement was dropped when the API that necessitated AES-NI was pushed back from the 2.5 release. AES-NI will probably still be a requirement at some point in the future.

AES-NI won't be a requirement for ARM CPUs - Netgate sells first-party ARM-based pfSense appliances that have non-AES-NI hardware crypto acceleration that they've confirmed wouldn't be affected by the AES-NI requirement. Not sure how that applies to third-party ARM systems.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by stirfrykitty »

I'm happy to see the 4GB RAM and better overall performance now available for a mere $55. I admin over a dozen RPis at work for signage and sometimes they barely keep up, but as a non-profit, we don't have the budget for much else. We can afford the new Pis, however, so I will likely be upgrading them this year.

I'll likely buy one for home to replace my aging Pi-hole.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by bityard »

morphle wrote: post #158
hlandau wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a nonprofit.

How are you a non-profit if you pay a salary to you employees and allow your suppliers to make a profit?. They act as a 'low profit' company, but they do make profits.

What you think a non-profit is, is not actually what a non-profit is.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by mrmuagi »

boromi wrote: post #562

Anyone have a good NAS setup guide using the Raspberry Pi? I've been wanting to get a Synology but gawk at the crazy prices for such limited specs. I'm thinking a DIY solution will be much cheaper.

I use a synology NAS myself, but I am down to setup something with Pi 4 + OSMC as it was well recommended.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by roboyoshi »

boromi wrote: post #562

Anyone have a good NAS setup guide using the Raspberry Pi? I've been wanting to get a Synology but gawk at the crazy prices for such limited specs. I'm thinking a DIY solution will be much cheaper.

Not for the pi specifically, but if you want a simple FileServer, then a debian (raspbian) samba setup is pretty much done in a few minutes: https://wiki.debian.org/SambaServerSimple Storage could be attached via USB3 or you can just use a big SD Card (maybe ~200GB)

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by richardwhiuk »

Spivak wrote: post #438
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #414

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> compact home cloud Can we just start calling them servers again?

The distinction in actual usage between using cloud, server, and homelab to describe their setup seems to be rooted in their purpose. * Home Lab :: Running a partial/full enterprise IT stack for fun and education. * Home Server :: Running primarily internal services like file storage, backups, media streaming, home automation, maybe some light networking. * Home Cloud :: Running primarily external services on the pub…

Unless your server offers some form of slicing of resources (containerization / virtualization) then it's difficult to describe it as a cloud in anything other than a buzzword.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by ryacko »

stirfrykitty wrote: post #605

I'm happy to see the 4GB RAM and better overall performance now available for a mere $55. I admin over a dozen RPis at work for signage and sometimes they barely keep up, but as a non-profit, we don't have the budget for much else. We can afford the new Pis, however, so I will likely be upgrading them this year. I'll likely buy one for home to replace my aging Pi-hole.

Are you using web apps or presentation software for signage?
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