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 <crossd@gmail.com> 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 <lucio.dere@gmail.com> 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.

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