Hi,
JK> For higher performance ARM machines than the Raspberry Pi 4 hard > -ware I already have, I'd go for a Rock Pro 5 or Orange Pi 5. Does NetBSD run (well?) on either of these?
I've gotten NetBSD running on an Orange Pi 5, but I wouldn't consider it ready for every day use. My Rock Pro 64 runs NetBSD very well, but I haven't tried a Rock Pro 5 yet.
Hopefully soon I can try to see about trying out the Orange Pi 5 more soon.
JK> I've been running a RPi 4 with an uptime of 225 days as an NFS > server for a fleet of machines that're running pkgsrc bulk > builds. This is really encouraging. I had been looking at the 3B+ but perhaps I should try a 4B now.
I have an 8 gig RPi 4 in a 1U server with raidframe mirrored disks, and it works surprisingly well, although it's no longer in a datacenter. The NFS server 4 gig RPi 4 just keeps chugging along, making sure all those pkgsrc build machines have a good place to work :)
John