[talk] PCEngines APU question

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

Word,

> On Oct 21, 2016, at 2:30 PM, George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
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> Has anyone run an APU as a production server?

Yes absolutely, APU (original not APU2), with 1Tb Samsung 850evo SSD, formatted with ZFS even, FreeBSD 10.x.  HTTP and automated file shuffling / backup applications, so the little suckers weren’t idle.  The SSD cost more than the APU, but absolutely worth it- 500Gb variants are much much cheaper.

With applied use actually using the CPU for applications, did not use ZFS compression to improve IO- (ssd was plenty fast).

Uptime nearly 10 months the last time I touched em.

> 
> I'm not talking about a network device (firewall, etc).. but rather a
> full server using mSATA storage?

I chose stable storage from guidelines here,
http://www.storagereview.com/best_drives

SSD media is surprisingly persnickety, some of it is real garbage so it’s important to just check reviews online for various mSata SSD’s before buying.

> 
> Curious about experiences.  It seems like a decent alternative to i/o
> light functionality.

Actually, it’s impressive how performant the APU’s were in practice— truly a punchy little box, particularly with enough storage.  Do it!

Rocket-
.ike


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