[ale] Basic/playing-around distro

[Douglas Yoon]

My 2 cents: about 2 months ago, I got a Kingwin NGFF M.2 enclosure, shoved
in a 128GB SSD stick, and formatted my 128 MB* microSD card to boot linux
from the USB 3 SSD. I got better performance and my microSD card has not
corrupted itself since. I use the RPi daily now to run Ansible, Terraform,
and play with docker.

*yes, I actually had an ancient 128MB card and was so happy to have found a
use for it!


On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm for RPI but can you get adequate performance from SD card even hyper
> speed ones. Modern browsers rely heavy on cache and their own database for
> whatever. Even on my 64 bit distro with spinning disk I can see very heavy
> HDD action when Mozilla boots up and later when some JS invader starts his
> job.
>
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:42:12 -0400
>> Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Picking up where SteveT left off, wouldn't a $40 RPi3 be adequate to
>> > the task? With TDP in the range of an old school (pre LED) kid's
>> > night light at something like what 8 watts power consumption, you
>> > could run it fanless, reducing both noise and failure points. Just
>> > guessing, but a minimally tasked older system, esp. if P4, would
>> > likely draw over 10x more power.
>> >
>> > I'm not great with math, but if I did the numbers right
>> > 8Wx24x365/1000 = 70.08kWH/year at average of $0.10/kWH = $7.01/year
>> > for the Pi vs ~ $70/year for the PC (even more if P4). So it wouldn't
>> > take too many months to recover the cost of new RPi based system vs
>> > using an old decommissioned PC.
>>
>> But wait,  there's more! Your RPi3 would be great for bragging rights.
>> Your RPi3 would help give you the experience to help you later build RPi
>> based MythTV. I don't know what you do for a living, but I'm betting it
>> will raise your market value.
>>
>> LOL, it might even help your love life. After several years of
>> marriage, my wife Sylvia had seen me author books, fly all over the
>> country giving classes, and write programs to make computers do what I
>> wanted them to do. She understood this stuff was cool, but kinda took
>> it for granted.
>>
>> Then, one day, she saw me soldering. Her eyes grew wide, her face
>> filled with color as she said "you can do that ?????????". Let's just
>> say she was impressed.
>>
>> Greg's right. RPi3 is cheap to buy, cheap to run, and will forever
>> improve your life.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
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