That could be for next meeting. Mini mail server competition ...<br><br>On Saturday, December 20, 2014, Jim Lynch <<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/19/2014 11:56 PM, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
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Looks like the SBC market is exploding again after the success of the<br>
Rpi with all these clones, beefed up clones and ultra-miniaturized<br>
desktops/laptops (NUC). The Radxa looks equally interesting as a couple<br>
others like the BananaPi and BeagleBone.<br>
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Since I have an Rpi now and it doesn't seem that I need much horsepower<br>
for this server I'm going to get another Rpi (and an external drive) and<br>
try it out. If it doesn't work I can always use the Rpi for something<br>
else and just get a bigger SBC.<br>
<br>
This is something that I'm probably going to have to do very soon since<br>
my mail server just puked again.<br>
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Even though you've decided, I want to toss another option in the mix. Recently someone mentioned that running an OS over a USB connected disk might not be optimal. The Cubieboard2 is a single board computer like the Pi and the BBB. It has twice as much memory 1024M, and most importantly a SATA port. It may not have quite as much GPU power as the Pi but for a server, a bit more memory and the SATA port are probably worth the $30 more that it costs. $65 for the Cubieboard2, a power cable and a SATA cable.<br>
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I have one that I've used for a platform for collecting log data and generating a map with information from the log, displayed on an html page. It also has been used with a USB camera to catch images for a time-lapse video. I have it configured to boot the OS from the SATA disk. It only reads the boot info from the SD card so I suspect it will last quite a while.<br>
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It's running a version of Wheezy, but there are a number of OS options, including Fedora.<br>
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Jim.<br>
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