Re: Any good ARM based hardware for NetBSD fileserver

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

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.

-- thorpej
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> 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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