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kleinbl00  ·  4108 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why everybody wants a slice of Raspberry Pi

It was a thin client that ran embedded linux on a board. Plugged directly into the IDE port. BIOS would boot, hit the thin client on the first IDE port, and the embedded linux would take over. Cheapest, easiest way to build a herkin' NAS back before anyone was building NAS. I had 5 250GB drives back when 250GB drives were $200 per.

And it provided ZFS, which everyone thought was badass, so I built the NAS ZFS. Because, after all, the thin client wasn't going to take a shit so why worry?

Then the BIOS on the mobo took a shit and took the thin client with it.

I had to build a fucking PC just to get my data out of it. Last time I ran RAID5 lemme tell ya.