Talk:Sunxi devices as NAS

I think this is something that quite a few people might be interested in (I've also seen related questions pop up on IRC from time to time). The available factual information seems sparse and/or scattered over many places. The key question probably is how to present / organize it without getting overly 'broad' on the subject, i.e. we need to keep some focus.

For example, I can imagine that the PMP stuff ("using port multipliers with sunxi devices") might be specific enough to justify putting it on a page of its own. -- NiteHawk (talk) 13:50, 20 June 2015 (CEST) (&rarr; done, this is now covered in SATA)


 * Agreed. And due to the nature of a wiki we can also reorganise contents if it's too much stuff for one page. Tkaiser (talk) 15:34, 20 June 2015 (CEST)

Stuff to add: There's a lot of further detailed stuff worth an explanation but the amount of contents is already too much IMO. -- Tkaiser (talk) 16:30, 30 June 2015 (CEST)
 * performance warning when rootfs is on slow SD card (&rarr; done)
 * reference to Optimizing_system_performance (&rarr; done)
 * maybe Link to TCP/IP stack tuning
 * maybe details for Identifying bottlenecks
 * hint that application specific settings (eg. contents of smb.conf) are also important (&rarr; done)
 * hint that due to the use of inappropriate benchmark tools like dd/hdparm many benchmark results found on the net for SBC are questionable (&rarr; done)

Since Igor Pečovnik's Debian build system / OS images now also include support for the pcDuino3 Nano (for all boards both 3.4/mainline kernel) and therefore only Hummingbird and the not yet available Banana Pi M1+ are missing from the list of recommended devices maybe it's a good idea to list Armbian as an alternative to manufacturer provided OS images? -- Tkaiser (talk) 12:50, 2 July 2015 (CEST)