On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 6:11 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote:
> > From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com] > > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:03 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I should probably buy another high speed 16GB or 32GB MicroSD in prep > for > > > creating a 2.9 system that runs Path Pilot. > > > > > > > Skip the SD card. Pi4 runs faster with a USB3 SSD. This used to be an > > expensive luxury but now if you have a spare USB3 external drive it's > free. > > That's not a bad idea. I'll look into that. I have a USB to 2.5" hard > drive adaptor. > > > > > Another option is a server to hold the Pi4's files. It is not as slow as > > you might think if you use 1Gb Ethernet. Then it is fun to do a "df" on > > the Pi4 and see that it has 12TB of free space, but the real advantage is > > the files live on the server that uses a versioned file system and is > > continuously backed up. > > No idea if 1 GB Ethernet can be put onto a USB3. I'm using the Ethernet > connector on the Pi for MESA 7i92H. > NFS does run over WiFi. I'm not sure of the performance. I have a Pi4 inside a robot and all the Python code to run the robot lives on the server and is NFS mounted over WiFi but. In your case the files wuld live on the local USB drive and you's likely only use NFS for moving files or common things that you want on every computer (like a ~/Downloads, /gcode and such > > > > Chris Albertson > > Redondo Beach, California > > John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
