Anyone has seen and thought about using the RockPro64 (with 4GB Ram)?
I have used/tested a raspberry Pi 3B+ but in my use case itās to slowwwwā¦
Mainly I wanted to use NextCloud to share images with friends and family but the preview is really to slow (also if I have preloaded all images to create the thumbnails just before - so they were Cached).
Also an āupgradeā to Odroid C2 was not successfull in making this really usable.
I made some real szenario benchmarks and the Odroid C2 was defenetly an improvement, but still too slow.
(all tests have been made using a fast USB3.0 USB Stick and a ~95MB/s read, ~90MB/s write Samsung Evo Plus 32GB SD card )
now Iām considering to buy a RockPro64 as it has USB3.0 and a better CPU (and a lot moreā¦ but itās also a huge SOC board).
I donāt know what the bottleneck is in may case - I would say the Odroid C2 has not enough CPU power for the image preview.
Gigabit Ethernet and my Upload speed is definitely not the problemā¦
so it must be CPU and/or USB 2.0.
so what do you think?
what is my bottleneck and will the RockPro64 help on this and might you guys also do this great NCP for it?
After using Raspberry pi 3, i finally gone for something more powerful - mini pc with celeron 3965u (~85 euros, w/o ram and hdd), installed there 8GB ram and 512 hdd. So much faster then Pi3, full usb 3.0 aupport and rean Gigabit lan Running nextcloud installation in virtualbox on top of installed Debian and 2nd virtual machine (ubuntu) for home mediaserver
I have NCP running on a Rock64( 4GB Ram) and am very happy with it. Donāt do much with the preview feature. I will try to do some testing when I get home from traveling.
I have a 4 TB USB 3 external hard drive connected and it works well. Not super speedy when uploading 50 GB of files for the first time, but bad during normal daily use.
My up and download speeds are OK even with the Raspberry Pi2 it was āokā for me because I dont have that much data to transmitt.
But the preview was always the problem.
And thanks for testing it. If you dont want to share a gallery it would also be great to see a video of the previewā¦ likely from a remote/mobile internet because that would be the real use scenario and the bottleneck thing
Helios4 does a new campaign, maybe somebody is interested. A board with 4 SATA ports and 2GB ECC RAM might be of interest for NAS applications: https://kobol.io/helios4/
yeahā¦ I meanā¦ for low budget (~70USD) its ok, but you get an Intel Celeron 3965u with 8GB DDR4 ram for the price of this 32bit dual core 2GB DDR3L (even its EECā¦ its slower and not replacable like the one from User_home).
But interessing what kind of hardware tries to get into the cloud market.
I read most of this thread. To me it seems the odroid-xu4 is good value for money and has decidedly better performance than an rpi2 (which i currently have). Iāve been looking for something with good performance for 1-5 users + nas + raid.
so odroid-xu4 with cloudshell2 seems to be most suitable in the category cheap hardware to run nc on.
i also considered rock64, helios4, asus tinkerbox and the wandpi-8m-deluxe, but they seemed either inferior or as with the wandpi, donāt know if even compatible.
if anyone has a suggestion for an upgrade from odroid-xu4 with cloudshell2 nas, then it would be interesting to hear. Otherwise this seems to be a suitable upgrade from rpi2 at leastā¦
Hello thomaslp,
Iāve 2 Odroid HC1 (same Hardware as Odroid-XU4) running with Fedora 28 and Nextcloud for 5 User without any problems. Additional 1 Odroid-XU4 with CloudShell 1 as development plattform with Fedora 28 and 1 Odroid XU4 with Cloudshell2 with actual Ubuntu (with GUI) for playing around.
Very good performance. All server for infrastructure that I have are ARM.
Greeting
Andreas
How do you deal with the 32 bit nature of the cpu - you canāt deal with files over 4gb right?
@Jeffery_Frederick how is the Rock64? The 4gb ram version seems the perfect Nextcloud server! With the OS and database on the flash or EMMC and storage on the USB3 and/or the 2 USB 2 ports it should give very decent performance. Heck, put primary storage on the USB3 and use the USB2 for backup or less used external storageā¦ The board costs 45 dollar, I see, thatās very decent.
Yes youāre right. But I didnt have a problem with this. Weāre using Nextcloud in our familily to synchronise photos, caldav, cardav, and so on.
Andreas
I like also Cubietruck. It has 2 GB RAM and 2 Cores A20. It is very cheap to get used, especially after holidays when it was presented to many people and they like to get rid of it. Works good with NC.
Running nextcloud installation in virtualbox on top of installed Debian and 2nd virtual machine (ubuntu) for home mediaserver
