I have an old Pi hanging around doing nothing. When I originally got it it had the latest Pi OS with desktop loaded and ran like garbage, not surprisingly. So I messed with it headless for a bit, then found RISCOS as an option in Pi imager utility and that is just a neat OS. Fun to play around with for sure. But now I’m wondering what else I could use the old thing for. I see folks run Pihole on it, but I’ve already got 2 instances of Adguard Home running.

Could this handle Syncthing? Or would the data transfer be so bad it’s not worth it? Wouldn’t mind having an off-site backup device at my parents house if it would work.

Anyone else got one in their homelab?

  • Scrath@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I think the Pi 4 was the first Pi with gigabit ethernet. All the Pi's before that were limited to 100Mbit. For that reason, syncthing is probably a bad idea since it will be very slow in terms of syncing speed

    • PeachMan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Eh, maybe. Depends on how much they're backup up and how often. They said the backups are off-site, so unless BOTH locations have a very fast connection, I'd bet that 100Mbit networking wouldn't be the huge bottleneck that you're thinking.