[plug] Pi as NAS was Re: Installfests

[Brad Campbell]

On 27/12/24 00:22, Chris McCormick wrote:
> On 26/12/2024 09:09, Gregory Orange wrote:
>> I'd love to say I will come to the March event, because my 10yo NUC is
>> overpowered for what it does, and when it eventually dies I would like
>> to know what I can practically achieve with a Pi.
> 
> 
> I have a Pi running in our place in Perth as a NAS (not sure if this is your exact use-case but I read between the lines).


We have 4 that are permanent and a couple that get used wirelessly for things like prgramming PICs or as wireless serial ports for configuring stuff. 2 are just running OpenElec as htpc boxes, so they don't really count.

One is running some custom stuff and rtl_433 to read weather and temperature sensors, and also works as a network key server.
The most important one runs our backup system. It runs SAMBA as a time machine destination for the Macs, but its biggest role is to perform nightly rsync backups of all our linux machines. It has a couple of 4TB USB drives attached, and we seem to average about 4 years of backups on a drive. It's on its third drive and a quick inspection of the filesystem indicates it was probably set up around 2014/2015. It has had a few hardware upgrades (mainly to improve cryptoloop performance), but still on the first sd card.


Mythic Beasts has been doing Pi co-lo for a few years now. I've been meaning to play with one of those.

Love my Pis.

Regards,
Brad