>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Stratton via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:

> This might be old news and off the Raspberry 5 topic.
> I have been looking at the Zimma Board for a SBC to mess with.

I have a couple of OrangePi3 LTS boards and I could bring one to
compare with the RPi5

> It is a different type of board for a different use case.  I am mostly
> focused on the performance and SATA port(s).  I do not like burning out
> SD cards.

How well would this board work to use to build a home ceph cluster?  I
used to think I wanted to get a bunch of Odriod H2 with the SATA ports
and setup my own distributed filesystem.


> 1) open media vault 2 drive NAS

> 2) Low end (low power, low budget) web page server

> 3) pihole with a firewall  (x86 build)

I tried doing this myself once, but in a VM and it was terrible.  They
are *so* tied into the RPi for setup and install that it's not funny. 


John