For more money and wasted power. People overbuild quite often.

Oui, Oui.

My pi gets 81MB/s non cache HDD read speed over USB.

With an msata SSD into a USB adapter if gets non cache read speed of 437MB/s

I totally get that doesn’t compete with a pcie slot msata or nvme.

But it significantly improves access time and transfer.

OPs request was could they do it with pis. Yes you could. HDD is max 120mbs, with SSD over USB interface you get a lot more even thought its not running on the pcie bus. It is totally functional as long as you aren’t streaming 4k to your TV. And it is more than enough for most people. As a reliable backup solution it works, but best if you use a drive enclosure that is powered, rather than relying on the USB power of the drive adapter.

You seem irrationally irked about a viable suggestion, to OPs orignal question. Sorry if I triggered your inner nerd 😀

PS. I’m not talking getting nvme speeds on USB, I’m saying if you use an msata ssd you get tons more bandwidth on USB than HDD

I think you missed the part about me saying older Pi, being cheap. Like you can pickup a pi3b for $35 where as I’d have to pay $150-180 for a pi5. People get focused on hardware that is overkill for their needs (especially if you track access and system load). You can probably get a deal on an old thinclient or nuc also. Its good to show people options.

For example I have a 15 year old arm board with 256mb non expandable RAM. (Dedtined for the garbage dump) with debian It handles music streaming and samba shares perfectly fine with an SSD. And doesn’t even use 50% of the RAM.

You don’t have to have pcie for a simple nas, USB with an SSD is fine. I ran my video, audio and samba shares on it that way and its plenty good.

As a counter point you can grab an old Pi for cheap and install OpenMediaVault OS and have all the NAS tools you need managed from a GUI.

There are Plugins for tons of self hosting options, and GUI docker management for your own add ons. (New versions dumped portainer, in favor of their own GUI tools).

Pi3 is fine Pi4 would be better. Wattage is between 4-7

I used to host this way till I found a fanless heatsink case for a ITX board.
Idle wattage is 15, and 23 for processing heavier tasks

If I recall he was more hung up on the consent part, because he was probably a black and white logic thinker. If Teen consent, therefore OK. I think later he made a statement that he had re-thought it, after people argued that a teen saying yes is not consent because they can’t legally consent.

There are paid subscriptions with support. You could also test out other distros, the currated nature of some distros means a problem in one doesn’t show up in another.

I.e. My wife’s laptop is a samsung from 2010. Debian derivatives won’t run because of a bios bug that halts the system, or even halts install. Fedora or SUSE run fine, it shows the bug and works around it.

Yeah, SUSE, REL, Ubuntu have paid support. SUSE started as a service support company before spinning their own.

Pavucontrol is great. Sometimes just entering that GUI has fixed the sound connection for me

Bash.rc printout?..on tractor feed paper so she knows you the real deal

Yeah, just wondered because containers just hook into the kernal in a way that doesn’t have overhead. Where as a VM has to emulate the entire OS. But hey I get it, fixing stuff inside the container can be a pain

There are docker script and docker compose installs. It was basically reading the documents and Editting a few text files and launching it in docker. Hardest part I found was the face tagging, it was totally counter intuitive to assign a face and persons name. Like almost obfuscated. Once you set that up though it just does its thing superbly well

Why VMs instead of contsiners? Seems like way more processing overhead.

Why a full VM, that seems like a ton of overhead

Debloating a system for a tiny appliance device is worth it. Debloating on a machine with a modern processor, 16-64 GB ram and a TB harddrive is not necessary. You may not even notice a difference.

But if you enjoy that stuff, go for it.

I have only used KSH for a proprietary software install that needed it, it didn’t feel much different than working in a BASH shell.

Yeah, I was tinkering with a 16 year old Iomega NAS, and put Debian on it, which was an old Debian to fit the 3.x kernel in it. I needed to add a few packages but was getting odd errors. So I figured lets try chatgpt, since I’m just killing time with this anyway, and I have an image saved for quick redeploy.

Some stuff was good advice and progress, then it claimed I couldn’t get one thing installed because I needed a newer version of apt. It led me through how to find the apt releases and fins appropriate version. Downloaded that and installed it, it gave an error about something not supported. Chatgot then told me to run a specific command, which gave a massive warning. Chat says all, good just proceed.

It unistalled my working apt version and left me with a broken new one.

So I paste the result in and chat triumphantly tells me I did it and solved the problem. Lol

Now there’s no apt or way to download anything LOL.

Except GNOME did exactly that. Sh can’t accidentally alter anything. Some people just have a hard time with computers and expected UI. Ever tried watching a good grampa deal with printer install and windows popups…you have to simplify things for less tch savvy people. Just like cars now have auto ebrake and lane assist

KDE was a nightmare for my wife since it has the configuration right in the desktop bars and dialogs. Misclicks and drags meant she was making changes she didn’t want to. GNOME was a better choice, 100% simple and no surprises.

Good point