Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Technical Specifications

Meh, I wanna see USB 3 and Gigabit ethernet before I upgrade from RPi2.

Get an Odroid C2. It has gigabit ethernet.  Chan: They were in stock a few moments ago. Not sure if they sold out again.

Yeah, but lacks USB 3, thanks for the suggestion though
I like the raspberry and the whole community, so I would rather wait for the RPi to be better

In Dutch the expression is "op Sint Juttemis" (at the feast of St Juttemis). In English the expresion translates to "When pigs fly".....

When the raspberry pi was introduced, their first batch was 10k units. That meant that broadcom was "willing to sell the CPUs", but nothing more: The processor had to be one that already existed.

At the current RPI production volume of 50k or more a month, apparently broadcom can be persuaded to develop and produce a new CPU. But the volume is too low to do really special things. They have just gotten a slightly faster CPU core, and slapped on a few modules that they already have experience with. (At first I thought that the WIFI was integrated on the CPU, but since then I think the WIFI is a separate SDIO chip, probably the wafer scale package on the bottom near the antenna.)

So, possible nice upgrades would have been:

* a  SATA port.

* a bunch more USB ports

* an USB3 port.

* wifi on the chip.

All this was not done. So I don't think it will happen at all. Especially the "more USB2 ports" should be "easy" and was decided against...

Is it because you're doing a lot of file transfers? What's justifying the use of USB3 ?

Is it because you're doing a lot of file transfers? What's justifying the use of USB3 ?

That's it yeah. I am using one of my Rasberry Pi's as a low power NAS. That's why Gigabit and USB 3 would be great, as it would increase file transfer a lot
Of course onboard SATA controller would be really nice, but I just figure that would be a larger task, than implementing the other - but what do I know.

Sure SATA and USB3 are nice. Regardless of whether they have that, we're introducing another problem and that is it is not a RAID controller for redundancy or striping.

However, it may be possible to address the RAID situation in software? Perhaps there'd be performance gains in that for storage.

There's dedicated hardware for lots of things, but I'd certainly be interested in seeing if the Pi3 can be put to this kind of purpose -- my NAS is getting kind of old, and uses a lot more juice than a Pi3 would. Have you got it working madshenriksen, and what sort of performance are you getting from it?

Exactly Spanner Spencer.

The Raspberry approach was chosen because it could fill my need at a very low cost, and with low power (I haven't look at the power consumption of other NAS hardware).

I haven't run any performance tests on my system, as it is a fairly simple setup. I have two disks in a RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-3662U3 - these boxes have integrated SATA controller with USB3 connectivity, and also come in a version with raid controller.

So far it is handling downloading multiple torrents while my other Raspberry Pi2 running OpenElec is streaming 1080p video, without any issues. But like I said, I haven't run any benchmarks

Hmm, interesting. I really need to swap my NAS out, and I use it for much the same as you just described. It takes up to 10 minutes or more to appear on the smart TV in the living room so I can start streaming video, and it gets pretty damn hot in summer (which also means its eating electricity).

Would you be interested in blogging up your RPi NAS set up as a how-to over in the Raspberry Pi Projects section?

I'll see if I got time this weekend for it

Awesome! Can't wait to check it out!

Sweet, I'll look forward to it! Thanks.

e.g. when speed is not an issue, a raspberry pi can very well function as a NAS+ . The plus because it runs a fully open and accessible OS, so that you can program it to do other things a normal NAS would not be able to do.

A case where speed is not an issue is for example when you want to stream video. As soon as the NAS is able to cope with the throughput of the stream, there is no use in being "even faster".

Yes Chris. to be honest the software RAID under Linux has surpassed the speed of the HW implementations for years at least under x86 ...

Obviously the ability to off load that function to some H/W is good but the Linux implementation is "standard" at least in Linux and can be easily fixed if your system goes off pop unlike a customRaid implementation done on Chip