With a USB3 SSD I have been able to get over 200MB/s sequential (under linux, on RPI4). You can get a TB SSD for under $150 that can theoretically do 540MB/s (on a USB3.1 but pi4 is usb3 so half the peak throughput). For a venti server your bottleneck will be the GBe. I haven't been able to run Richard's latest image (may have to do with eeprom updates I did) so no idea what 9pi does as yet. > On Dec 12, 2019, at 12:30 AM, Dan Cross wrote: > > We had 9legacy running on Intel NUCs at Google for our internal development. It worked well enough, though of course wasn't an ARM based machine. Getting it going was a little hacky, but not too bad. We were using raspberry pi's as terminals. > > I haven't looked in depth, but I suspect there's relatively little support for SATA interfaces in Richard's BCM code. Targeting something like the BananaPi W2 as a small server would probably be doable and the delta from Richard's code would be smaller than an ersatz port. > > - Dan C. > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 12:02 PM Lucio De Re > wrote: > I'd like suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost > certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service). > Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always. > > Ideally, storage is where the value will reside, the actual processor > could be expendable. > > ARM would allow me to start with Richard Miller's release, which I > believe to be a very sound foundation. > > Thanks for any and all comments. > > Lucio. > > ------------------------------------------ > 9fans: 9fans > Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tfa3a09b0e78ea56b-M6bc9d051ece7ae7925fb6867 > Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription > 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink