[ale] Basic/playing-around distro

[Alex Carver]

My email server is an RPi B+ with an external drive running everything
and the SD card is boot.  It was using a spinning 2.5" IDE drive that
I've since replaced with a 2.5" SATA SSD.  Handles the email load
reasonably well.  Performance improved with the SATA SSD of course (so
did storage since the old IDE drive was only 20 GB and the new SATA SSD
is 256 GB).

On 2017-06-21 04:38, Douglas Yoon wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:slitt at troubleshooters.com>> wrote:
> 
>         On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:42:12 -0400
>         Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com <mailto: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
>