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Raspberry Pi 4B (4 gig) Rocks
« on: April 26, 2020, 10:19:09 am »
I decided we needed to replace the ancient single core laptop we use as a home server. It's a 2010-era single core celeron chip and works okay. It's main issue is the internal hard drive is beginning to go and it only has USB2 and 10/100 ethernet. This means it is slow accessing its large usb drives from other PCs and devices in the house. Rather than get something big and expensive, I decided to try a Raspberry Pi 4B with 4 gigs of RAM. It has USB3 ports and 1 Gig ethernet (as well as Wifi which I probably will not use).

I got it in (I got the canakit rather that just the board) and set it up. Rather than immediately install a CLI only version of Linux to run it headless, I decided to try a start Raspberian Full install just to check out the claims that this tiny $100 kit PC is actually usable as a desktop machine. Amazingly it is quite capable as a desktop system for browsing the net, word processing, and the like. I'm typing this message with it now. I may eventually get a second one as an "emergency backup PC".

Heading out to actually set it up as a server.
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Re: Raspberry Pi 4B (4 gig) Rocks
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2020, 02:27:26 pm »
Heading out to actually set it up as a server.

I hope that means a followup review on how it functions in that capacity!

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4B (4 gig) Rocks
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2020, 05:21:42 pm »
I hope that means a followup review on how it functions in that capacity!

I can do that, although it may be next weekend. Donna had stuff for me to do today, so the pi is being ignored. As it runs a desktop just fine, I have no doubt it will be powerful enough to run as a home server. It will probably be better at it that the old laptop currently being used. If so, I will probably be able to have it do more than the current system. I'd rather use Ubuntu Server than Raspbian Lite as that's what I use for other stuff. It's supposed to work, we'll see.
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Re: Raspberry Pi 4B (4 gig) Rocks
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2020, 09:49:38 am »
I hope that means a followup review on how it functions in that capacity!

I've had the Raspberry Pi working as our home server for a couple of days now. It seems to be working great.

We don't yet have the new USB 3.0 drives for it. However, just being able to use gigabit wired ethernet instead of the 10/100 the ancient laptop used has made network drive usage better even with the old USB 2 external drive.
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