04-02-2019, 01:30 PM
(04-01-2019, 08:23 AM)psychedup Wrote: I'm using one as a headless NAS / mail server / Nextcloud server. I got it to replace a Raspberry PI 3B which was doing the same things. The RPI had some serious performance issues due to lack of RAM and I/O.
Same exact boat as you - one is for my Nextcloud server, the other is email - precisely for the same reason. The pi was just not responsive enough!
Although I am finding the email to be a bit of a challenge running Bionic. I am trying to use Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, OpenDKIM and Roundcube all working together. I tried using Citadel and some other pre-baked distro's and whenever I hit a problem it was mind-bending in trying to find ways to fix it. So I chucked all the "make it easy" packages and just am trying to make all the core pieces work together myself. I still have yet to figure out why the Spamassassin "milter" stuff patently refuses to install right on the Rock (could be the bionic distro not having all the requisite parts, etc.) All in all I've been using a bunch of "Roll your own email" tutorials from a guy at ArsTechnica that wrote an awesome set of articles and others - but so far it's a hair-pulling labor of love. Needless to say I have blown away the whole distro and restarted so many times it's laughable.
I posted a question to the forum here under another thread to try and get a way to configure a microSD to boot and hand off the OS and boot from SSD after a delay (yeah, I flashed it, but it's WAY inconsistent and doesn't come up all the time - and I keep corrupting the boot volume. Go figure)
All in all? I've have fun with the Rock64 - and it's just SO damn much faster than the Pi (especially with I/O on the USB 3.0 port and over the network) Once I figure out some of these annoyances I think I will continue to be amazingly pleased.