[ale] NUC vs. RPi mail server

[Boris Borisov]

That could be for next meeting. Mini mail server competition ...

On Saturday, December 20, 2014, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
wrote:

> On 12/19/2014 11:56 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>
>> Looks like the SBC market is exploding again after the success of the
>> Rpi with all these clones, beefed up clones and ultra-miniaturized
>> desktops/laptops (NUC).  The Radxa looks equally interesting as a couple
>> others like the BananaPi and BeagleBone.
>>
>> Since I have an Rpi now and it doesn't seem that I need much horsepower
>> for this server I'm going to get another Rpi (and an external drive) and
>> try it out.  If it doesn't work I can always use the Rpi for something
>> else and just get a bigger SBC.
>>
>> This is something that I'm probably going to have to do very soon since
>> my mail server just puked again.
>>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> It's running a version of Wheezy, but there are a number of OS options,
> including Fedora.
>
> Jim.
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