FilePro on Raspberry PI?

[Brian K. White]

On 6/13/21 4:57 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:
> Is FilePro available for the Raspberry PI?
>
> Considering that I can put together a system with an 8gb
> Raspberry PI 4B, Argon One M.2, 1TB internal SATA SSD, and PoE
> splitter for less than $300.00, this looks like a viable
> replacement for an existing Linux box.  The Argon case doesn't
> need any internal fan, so no moving parts.
>
> This box would handle e-mail, OpenVPN, and pretty much everthing
> their current Linux system does.
>
> Bill

CPU & ram isn't the problem, the storage is. SD cards are not reliable 
enough even if you were ok with the speed.
There are a few enclosures and adapter boards that provide a real pcie 
slot, which you can attach a real ssd to, and I think now finally they 
have firmware updates that allow you to boot from that ssd.

I'm using a few pi4's but only for appliances that don't need to write 
much, and don't hold enough data to matter, where it's no problem to 
just download a fresh drive image if it fails. Like octoprint for a 3d 
printer, pi-kvm to provide lan kvm access to a work laptop.

As for fp, I haven't tried it, but there is something called box86 that 
looks promising.

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bkw