Re: Any good ARM based hardware for NetBSD fileserver

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

Hello,

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 01:16:30PM +0200, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> I have been playing with the Banana Pi BPI-R1.  It has an AllWinner H3 with the built-in emac and ahci.  I am using it with a 2.5? SATA SSD.  I haven?t done much with it so far, and I?m traveling at the moment, but I will follow up when I?m back home (about a week from now).
> 
> I got mine from AliExpress, and it looks like there are European vendors that resell it.
> 
> Really any of the AllWinner SoCs with the built-in ahci would probably work pretty well for your application, and NetBSD supports them quite well.
> 

Thank you for the reference! I will continue to play with the Raspberry
a little and will start looking at this.

Best,

T. Laronde
> 
> > On Jun 14, 2019, at 11:47 AM, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'd like to have a fileserver only, running NetBSD, so since it needs
> > only a CPU, no floating point unit, no GPU and should not be another
> > electric heater, an ARM based one comes to mind.
> > 
> > I'm playing a little with Raspberry but that's not it since what I'm
> > looking for needs internal disks support and efficient ethernet
> > interfaces.
> > 
> > Does anybody know of some such hardware that is reasonably accessible
> > (in Europe) and that will run happily under NetBSD (note: I don't care
> > much about RAID; I didn't have very satisfying results with built-in 
> > RAID 1 so far so it is no prerequisite).
> > 
> > TIA
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