Hardware

Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD

       2263 words, 11 minutes

Finding a NAS that provides NVMe and SATA storage while being tiny enough to sit in my 10" rack, have a CPU that’s not hogging, use a small amount of watts and offers usage of a non-proprietary OS is not simple. Especially when you have the “must run any BSD” to the equation. But here we are, the AOOSTAR WTR Pro Ryzen edition meets all my prerequisites. And here’s what I discovered.

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FreeBSD 14.4 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

       698 words, 4 minutes

Not convinced lately with OpenBSD on this board , I went searching for another BSD OS to run on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. According to the documentation, FreeBSD should do fine. Let’s have a look.

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*BSD discovery on the PINE64 ROCKPro64

       3220 words, 16 minutes

I’ve been lurking on the PINE64 ROCKPro64 for a long time but its price compared to other options has always kept me from buying one. But being very happy with my ODROID HC4, I went hunting for a ROCKPro64 and found one. I have (a small) ZFS NAS plans for it. But before I get all the hardware, let’s take a quick look at it running various BSD systems.

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OpenBSD 7.8 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

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A few years ago, I ran OpenBSD 7.4 on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W . It was working quite nice as a DHCP and DNS server. But it froze too often for my linkings and I stopped using it. These days, that particular board is still not referenced on the official OpenBSD arm64 supported hardware list. Still, I gave it a try on OpenBSD 7.8.

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Running OpenBSD 7.8 on ODROID HC4

       809 words, 4 minutes

Some times ago, I acquired an ODROID HC4 arm64 board and installed OpenBSD 7.2 on it. I used it for a moment but there were issues when running with two disks so I stopped using it. For $reasons, I took it out of its box and gave it another try using OpenBSD 7.8.

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