Actually, I doubt the USB3 port would be the bottle neck on a Pi4 based NAS. It should be able to flood the 1000BaseT network cable at wire speed.
Even with the current Pi3 the network connection is fast enough that it is MUCH faster to place your files on a file server than to place them on the SD card. I have several Pi3 here and all the file live on a little NAS box in the upstairs bedroom closet. Sometime I'm in that closet and hear the NAS driver chattering away and think "what's it doing" It is doing the hourly backup. That is another reason for placing the files on the NAS, they get backed up hourly to both a big local disk and to a cloud storage service. All this works well enough even with the old Pi3 and Beagle Bone computers. The latest Pi3+ is actually very good for most uses. On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 6:18 PM Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Ethernet is not on USB. The Pi 4 uses new/different controllers for USB > 3.0 and Ethernet so they can run full speed instead of half the speed of > USB 2 and half the speed of 100 megabit Ethernet on the Pi 3. Finally a > Raspberry Pi can make a decent NAS host by connecting a pair of USB3.0 > connected drives. Not quite as fast as a proper not run through USB SATA > port but far better than any prior Pi. > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
