Raspberry Pi Server Mark III • Hacker News Board

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by ekianjo » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC

sirn wrote: post #114

kingosticks wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you expand on why?

My guess would be Nextcloud put a lot of load on both CPU and disk (for thumbnail generation, file encryption, etc.) making Raspberry Pi which lack performance in both front not very suitable for the task. I tried running Nextcloud on Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) a while ago, and hitting performance issue on SD card very fast (initial DB import take very long). I tried to solve this by moving all Nextcloud data into iSCSI di…

I find you can get a much better experience with a cheap celeron NUC than a RPi because everything from single thread performance to IO speeds favor x86 right now.

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by Tepix » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 4:18 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #22

Tepix wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you need a cheap dedicated (for privacy) server to run a mail server and perhaps a private cloud with Nextcloud, this is ideal.

Nextcloud would be much cheaper to run on a x86 board.

Which x86 board do you have in mind?

The RPi4 with a USB SSD should be fast enough and use little power.

Re: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III

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Post by Tepix » Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 10:08 AM UTC

sirn wrote: post #114

kingosticks wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you expand on why?

My guess would be Nextcloud put a lot of load on both CPU and disk (for thumbnail generation, file encryption, etc.) making Raspberry Pi which lack performance in both front not very suitable for the task. I tried running Nextcloud on Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) a while ago, and hitting performance issue on SD card very fast (initial DB import take very long). I tried to solve this by moving all Nextcloud data into iSCSI di…

Try using a SSD connected via USB 3.0 on the RPi 4.