Re: asking for advice about low-power soc computer

Sorry I can't say much about the boards you mentionned but I heard great things about the BIOSTAR NM70I-1037U which from what I've read should perform better than the J1800 or J1900. Also if you have a bit more budget take a look at the SuperMicro A1SAM-2550F and A1SRM-2558F (which have 4 1GB

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

Hummm I see all your points and that is good food for thoughts. I now see that it is indeed a bad setup for a backup solution. I thought that for a home user it is not necessarily worse than someone using an attached drive to its router (Apple Time Capsule for example). Note that I said "not

OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

Hi, I'm buying some new hardware to setup a home server. The server's primary job will be to act as a backup/file server. I'll use a 500GB SATA drive for the OS installation and will setup two WD Red drives in mirror using softraid(4). A NFS or CIFS share later and that should be enough to

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

On 2015-09-28 20:15, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-09-28, dominik...@openmailbox.org wrote: I'll use a 500GB SATA drive for the OS installation and will setup two WD Red drives in mirror using softraid(4). Any particular reason not to just put the OS on the

Realtek RTL8111F

Hi everyone, I have some trouble figuring out if the Realtek RTL8111F network controller is supported under OpenBSD 5.7. The re(4) man page does not precisely mentions the 8111F version. Anyone has some experience with this chip? Thanks in advance. Dom

Re: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

On 2015-08-18 11:42, Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 01:59:49PM +, Jona Joachim wrote: On 2015-08-18, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, I am contemplating buying a new machine which will act as a router/DNS caching server for my home