When you add up the component costs for RPi with NVMe, suitable case, cooling and power supply, it is not much cheaper than a mini PC which generally outperforms the RPi.
I use several RPis of various models. But there are times when even an old Intel/AMD laptop is a more suitable solution.
firecall · 1h ago
An old laptop has a built in UPS too!
serf · 57m ago
a UPS has a battery that is safe under failure, a laptop usually doesn't.
trenbologna · 4h ago
> So I can read from my disk at 117 MB/s. We’re far from the theoretical 1000 MB/s.
I think you are confusing megabytes a second and megabit. Gigabit speed is approximately 125 Megabytes per second. This is close to the speed you got.
kaelwd · 2h ago
Yes but not there, later they get 350MB/s with the same setup.
> I put that drive an ICY BOX IB-1817M-C31 enclosure, with a maximum theoretical speed of 1000 MB/s.
Checks out, it has a 10Gb/s USB port.
The mistake is
> the USB controller of the Pi has a bandwidth of 4GB/s shared across all 4 ports
I use several RPis of various models. But there are times when even an old Intel/AMD laptop is a more suitable solution.
I think you are confusing megabytes a second and megabit. Gigabit speed is approximately 125 Megabytes per second. This is close to the speed you got.
> I put that drive an ICY BOX IB-1817M-C31 enclosure, with a maximum theoretical speed of 1000 MB/s.
Checks out, it has a 10Gb/s USB port.
The mistake is
> the USB controller of the Pi has a bandwidth of 4GB/s shared across all 4 ports
It's actually 4Gb/s = 512MB/s