Hi all,
If we are to use an external harddrive and an external USB Hub, why not get a mini-ITX MBO powered with 12V and a small mini-ITX box? This way we can have a decent CPU which is also low power in electricity not low in computing power (about 30 watts total).
I think the RPi is only good in portable apps, but then again the SD Card is a major handicap. It could be good for applications that are not 24/7/365, such as an event where an AMPRnet GATEWAY is desired only for a few hours or maybe a few days max. If you operate the SD Card for more than a few days, it might get destroyed from the constant write of log files, updating databases etc.
Can we have a system with no writting on the disk all the time? I'm not sure.
73 de Demetre SV1UY
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:26 AM, K7VE - John k7ve@k7ve.org wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Yes, the Pi boots from the SD, but one can put files on an attached drive, especially swap, database, and logs. With a little configuration one could probably put everything except the boot configuration on an external drive and never write to the SD.
John D. Hays K7VE PO Box 1223, Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 http://k7ve.org/blog http://twitter.com/#!/john_hays http://www.facebook.com/john.d.hays
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:05 PM, sp2lob@tlen.pl wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) ______________________________**_________________ SD card is the _must_ for Pi to boot... To my knowledge - there is no other choice.
Best regards. Tom - sp2lob
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