Re: need your advice before new Raspberry Pi purchase

Hi,

>  JK> For higher performance ARM machines than the Raspberry Pi 4 hard
>    > -ware I already have, I'd go for a Rock Pro 5 or Orange Pi 5.
>
> Does NetBSD run (well?) on either of these?

I've gotten NetBSD running on an Orange Pi 5, but I wouldn't consider it 
ready for every day use. My Rock Pro 64 runs NetBSD very well, but I 
haven't tried a Rock Pro 5 yet.

Hopefully soon I can try to see about trying out the Orange Pi 5 more 
soon.

>  JK> I've been running a RPi 4 with an uptime of 225 days as an NFS
>    > server for a fleet of machines that're running pkgsrc bulk
>    > builds.
>
>    This is really encouraging.  I had been looking at the 3B+ but
> perhaps I should try a 4B now.

I have an 8 gig RPi 4 in a 1U server with raidframe mirrored disks, and it 
works surprisingly well, although it's no longer in a datacenter. The NFS 
server 4 gig RPi 4 just keeps chugging along, making sure all those pkgsrc 
build machines have a good place to work :)

John