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I still don't see a RPI as useful as a nas. Especially with how cheap mini pc's are now.

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>I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My configuration for these Arm NASes is up on GitHub. I've been looking forward to TrueNAS support on Arm for years, though it seems the sentiment in that community was 'Arm servers aren't powerful enough to run serious storage servers'—despite myself and many others doing so for many years... but that's besides the point.

I still don't see a RPI as useful as a nas. Especially with how cheap mini pc's are now. Archive: https://archive.today/oXWVi From the post: >>I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My configuration for these Arm NASes is up on GitHub. I've been looking forward to TrueNAS support on Arm for years, though it seems the sentiment in that community was 'Arm servers aren't powerful enough to run serious storage servers'—despite myself and many others doing so for many years... but that's besides the point.

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Agree totally. Pi was cool when it was $40 bucks, it for the cost I can get a 10 year old i7 that’s smokes it. For about $30

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Yeah almost every pi project I come across, I always find myself thinking, "It'll be so much easier to just grab a $40 Dell or HP micro off eBay and use that instead."

Energy savings is really the only benefit a lot of the time but then you gotta square that with the increased buy in cost.

Unless your goal is just to tinker.