On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Grant Bailey < [email protected]> wrote:
> Is either device powerful enough to act as small business server? I > realise that some people have turned the Pi into a server but I'm not sure > whether they have been deployed for commercial applications. > That Depends on the expectations. The main consideration is that the Pi has a really low performance disk interface. Out of the box it has an SD disk interface. It should be fastish* but SD cards have limited capacity. It can accept a portable USB disk but the USB transfer rate on the Pi is not great. But it might give you 500GB or more at slowish transfer rates. Still, depends on how much you load it. Samba will run. Sounds like it's worth experimenting to come up with some performance numbers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
