RE: Want to build a web server (LAMP) and NAS... w/ (1) Raspberry Pi 3 and (4) Raspberry Pi Zero

volly — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:27:36 GMT

getitdone I would strongly urge you to take [mention:b0bc65b9ecdc4307bd967592f00e340a:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] advice and also rather stick with the Pi 3's for your project. They just keep on impressing me one way or the other.

RE: Want to build a web server (LAMP) and NAS... w/ (1) Raspberry Pi 3 and (4) Raspberry Pi Zero

shabaz — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:28:23 GMT

Hi Steven,

I don't think it really matters if you don't partition. The Pi doesn't have a drive interface, so presumably your drives will be USB attached.

The Pi's various file system slices will all be on the SD card. Your USB drive will be mounted as another file system in /mnt for whatever you wish to store (applications, data, etc).

Bear in mind that the Ethernet and USB is shared into the processor, so 16 USB cameras into it may be optimistic (but I've not tried it, this is a guess).

I think it would be worth you trying with just one Pi 3 first, to see how you wish to implement it, to see your web server performance, and so on. Then multiply out and replicate with additional Pi's (and possibly drives) as desired.

The Pi zero cluster thing doesn't gain you any advantages if your bottleneck is the USB interface for your application, because it is like having an additional 4 water taps connected to the same pipe.