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Hi Jim,I think you should be fine. I'm using five rescued HP ePCs all with PIII @800MHz, 128MB RAM and a range of HDs, including one one with 80GB. All connected via a HP ProCurve 1G switch. I have one RPi2 connected to the cluster and it, too, works fine with them. Still having struggles with auth, etc.For what it's worth, I have an ePC booting off a compact flash card (via an IDE adaptor) - that one is rather slow. I haven't benchmarked this cluster against anything, but my impression is that it's Ok, but a single contemporary PC seems faster (SSD, SATA3, etc)Well that's one dodgy data point for you!On 12 October 2016 at 11:33, James A. Robinson <jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:Folks,One of the things I'm thinking about is setting up a full Plan 9cluster, meaning one of the components would be a stand-alonefileserver hooked up to a decent amount of storage.I was wondering what experience people have had with slower or fastermachines in this role?I was wondering whether or not it'd be feasible to hook up somethinglike http://tinyurl.com/jgov5gc (Amazon.com) to something small like aRaspberry Pi 3, or if the I/O would be too much for that kind ofcomputer to handle.Does anyone here run a fileserver on a small computer like araspberry pi 3, or perhaps something like an Intel nuc?I wouldn't be supporting multiple users, just myself moving betweena couple of devices.Jim