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Is a old raspberry pi viable for anything with Linux? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by vrek@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

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[–] Limerance@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Depending on the Pi, you are limited to USB 2 speeds for the external drive. That’s enough for many things, like streaming video, but doesn’t cut it for regular transfer of large files.

[–] Filetternavn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've got a Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB, and I've never had a problem with speed, really. The only issues I have with speed are when I do things from outside my home network, which is a limitation from my ISP, not my hardware.

EDIT: Just checked with a quick dd and it seems my drive's sequential write speed is about 250MB/s, far exceeding USB 2.0. It's not a great SSD, so that's a pretty expected value, tbh.