Will need an additional power supply or with the official usb c one will be enough?

That's true, didnt think of that. The laptops at my works do. Idk I'm old. At least I didnt pull up a pata adapter lol

Still need an adapter though. Kind of blows my mind that they still haven't made it so the stock RPi can use anything better than SD cards.

Should be able to put in your machine with one if these Amazon nvme to data converter

Okay so this isn't like only useful for microPCs right? Like, I feel like i may be a moron for asking this...

Check out DietPi, it's a Debian/ARM distro for easy to use headless operation. They have a selection of well made CLI tools for installing and managing such tools.

So that’s helping answer the hardware question of moving away from Synology, but what about the software? One of the best things I like about my Synology is the fact I can do things like having a Windows backup agent, backing things up to an S3 bucket and running some containers on it. I could probably do all that by hand, but it was just stupid easy with the interface and software.

A NAS without ECC RAM is useless to me.

I use Grayjay on my MNT Laptop (arm64) in Linux through Waydroid. A native client would be better but the solution with Android emulation works a treat. No issues.

Nice. What are you doing with the picos? I have one inside my pi4 seeed studio router.

When you die, can I inherit your tinkering boxes? Please? :)

It's apparently an issue with my Wi-Fi access point I switched to an ssid that is wpa2 / wpa3 and it's working now.

github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4976

I think (I will not dive this rabbit hole right now haha) it's only related to the pi 3 archtitectur (shared USB bus with the ethernet controller?).

Yeah it probably added a lot of overhead and I/O bottleneck due not beeing optimized for it. But I'm not sure this is applicable in a more conventional setup !

I have an older laptop (+/- 10 years old) which run nicely with LVM-ext4 and does not hang or choks on piHole + qbittorrent in a similar setup.

Guess, I have to keep it simple on my pi 3, But happy it works as expected now !

Huh, TIL. I had no idea LVM had an appreciable impact on performance, even on a pi 3.

Hii :) Just as friendly reminder... Don't put a LVM system on an old Raspberry pi 3B+ !! I solved the issue when putting everything on a simple EXT4 filesystem. Now I'm able to download, upload, check integrity and resolve DNS without it giving a sweat.

Hello sorry to pin you but I fixed and found the culprit: putting an LVM ext4 filesystem on an old raspberry pi 3B+ was not the brightest idea I guess... After putting everything on a simple EXT4 partition I'm able to download, check integrity and resolve DNS without giving a sweat !

Thanks again and have a nice whatever you're in right now :).

I'll have to check and see. I just used the official rpi installer and input my ssid and PW.

How is it configured?

It's been years, but when the same thing happened on my pi I switched to wicd and had no more issues.

Ohh daaamn... I lost my answer while doing something else on my phone... Fuck !

I didn't expect to much for such an old device, however It should be capable to hold a small piHole (3 devices connected to the dns resolution) and a moderate qbit installation.

While uploading works wihout any I/O choking on the HDD on 100 torrents (sometimes uploads upto 10MB/s, which is the pi's limitation...) It can't handle a single download file? And checking the file integrity just makes the DNS resolution on piHole timeout ! That's kinda frustrating, because from the spec side It should be capable :/.

I don't think It's CPU or ram limited, with TOP/HTOP it is kinda getting a spike when checking or downloading a file, but nothing that would completely stop piHole dns resolution, this is bound to I/O choking on the HDD, which is even more frustrating, cause there's nothing I can do about it I guess? The HDD health is okay, it's a repurposed WD Red with acceptable SMART results. Also the pi is running with the correct cable I got with.

If it’s CPU bound you could try deprioritizing qbit and upping the priority of pi hole.

Even if it's not CPU bound I will give this a try, didn't know that was possible, thanks for the insight !! Also while rewritting my response, I though of maybe to increase the swap file/partition, and I'm not even sure I have one, so I have 2 things to try out when home !!

Thanks for your anwser !

Yeaaah, that's my point... It should be capable but it chokes on a single download file while uploading works without even giving a sweat.

lots of bad experiences with qbt @ pi3,

Yeah so it's not just me. It's kinda sad I though I could use it as a low power mini qbittorrent server and DNS service.

I guess it will only run piHole then ! Thanks for your personal experience.

multitasking + pi = headache (unless maybe on pi5)

personally, i would run pi-hole on a separate sbc. pi zero works fine.

for torrenting, even by itself, I'd prefer a pi4. lots of bad experiences with qbt @ pi3, although it is technically capable.

You kinda have to temper your expectations. It’s a 7 year old $35 computer with only 1 gig of ram and no cooling.

I think the 3 was the last Gen. where the Ethernet shared the same network bus as the USB, and to boot it’s only a USB 2.0 bus.

Are you CPU limited, or do you think it’s the network/USB bus? If it’s CPU bound you could try deprioritizing qbit and upping the priority of pi hole. You can do this temporarily using the nice options in HTOP. I forget how to permanently do it, but you’d do it on startup of the program.

Seems like a useful thing and the $40 price seems reasonable.

Doesn't work with pi zero? Meh, that decreases the utility by quite a lot. Maybe scrounge an old phone instead, depending on what you're doing.