Re: Any good ARM based hardware for NetBSD fileserver

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 08:41:37AM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 09:14:31PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost writes:
> > 
> > >significantly so this is not any longuer a great concern. I want
> > >something reduced to what I need for a fileserver, reliable, handled by
> > >NetBSD with low electric requisits and low heat dissipation.
> > 
> > Then one of the low power Intel/AMD sytems is probably the best.
> > An ARM solution might have the edge regarding power usage of the
> > SoC, but for a fileserver that's only a fraction of the total power
> > usage. As a plus you have a standard form factor, for a standard
> > case, with standard drive slots, etc.
> 
> I'm considering this too (since indeed one significant part of heat
> comes from the disks---due to the size of data served and backup'ed,
> spinning disks are the only reasonable solution.
> 
> But I'd like to give ARM a try in order to not have all eggs in the same
> basket and to see how this works.

If you have the system on the sd card, you should be able to spin down
the disk when not needed (check atactl setstandby) and limit power.

Not an issue for me as I use a SSD (another critical point for me is noise,
so no rotating parts :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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