<div dir="ltr">If not married to the PI then I'd also suggest looking at 2nd hand mini PCs.<div><br></div><div>I picked up a Dell Optiplex 9020m i5 4590t with 8GB RAM and 128GB SDD (internal) for $227. This is a low power unit (idles ~10W) and way more powerful than a PI with proper full speed GigE and USB3 if you want to hook up external disks. Nice thing too is you can expand/upgrade it with more ram or replace the internal disk etc... It's also tiny, about the same size as my NBN router!</div><div><br></div><div>If you consider the cost of a pi4 4GB + power + case, then I think this is competitive - esp. if you were thinking of getting multiple PIs</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:55 PM Benjamin <<a href="mailto:zorlin@gmail.com">zorlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Odroid stuff is certainly worth looking at. My "Elastic NAS" project is built on 4x ODROID HC2 units running Ubuntu and MooseFS...<div dir="auto">- b</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, 13:53 William Kenworthy, <<a href="mailto:billk@iinet.net.au" target="_blank">billk@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>
<p>Or pay a small amount more and use an odroid N2 (6 arm cores, 4 G
ram) and run the services via LXC. I have a dav server, an
asterisk PABX, internet facing web server, slave dns, email and a
radicale calendar server plus a buildhost all in lxc on a single
N2. Everything including asterisk runs well on a gentoo-sources
kernel and a re-purposed Gentoo aarch64 raspberry pi user-land
from my old pi 3B. An Odroid c4 will also work - note both of
these have USB3 if you want to run extra usb network adaptors.
The n2 is running a bridge for LXC to the VLAN segmented networks
while the C4 I have (odroid 4.14 kernel, gentoo aarch64 userland)
is using 2 bridged USB 3 WiFi adaptors to vlans all without
problems. A major performance boost (at least 3x over an SD card
in my tests) is had using the odroid eMMC storage, though the pi's
have a sata hat available - I have tried using usb storage and usb
networking together on both pies and odroids and its a serious
no-no :) - corruption and really bad performance when busy). The
standard odroid OS is ubuntu and it can apparently also use
raspian.<br>
</p>
<p>Any pi less than a 4 will suffer from poor network performance
(it all goes through an internal, under-powered USB2 hub), though
I have used pi 1B's for all the above services in the past. Going
on my experience, a pi less than a 4 will do ok for a not very
busy home server but wont do well for routing and a pi 4 should be
better at networking whereas the more powerful odroid units will
do it better, perhaps to small enterprise level with the right
storage. see <a href="https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-c4/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-c4/</a> (the page
for the older n2 i have uses a pi3 for the comparison, the newer
N2+ is here
<a href="https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-with-4gbyte-ram-2/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-with-4gbyte-ram-2/</a>.)</p>
<p>BillK</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<div>On 10/8/20 12:58 pm, Russell Pereira
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hey pluggers,
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto">Just wondering what pi you recommend for Web
server, vpn server, file server, router and a firewall.</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto">Was thinking seperate pies for each one and was
wondering which model(s) would be best. I have a esberrybpi 3
with 1gb ram but figure it is a bit under powered.</div>
<div dir="auto"><br>
</div>
<div dir="auto">Thanks </div>
<div dir="auto">Russ</div>
</div>
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