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Would I notice any performance gain from using a cheap pc over a pi for something like BT sync?

The Pi's processor is equivalent to a 300MHz Pentium 2, and that's kinds scary.



Certainly. The RPI is not able to even remotely saturate its network card + a USB harddrive.


Especially with an encrypted disk.


After googling for alternative arm credit card boards I'm now looking into not too old [thin]m-itx atom ones. I wonder what's the cheapest out there.


you will notice a serious performance upgrade by switching to a BeagleBone black. IMHO the BBB is about twice as fast (or more) as the rPi.

The BBB is lacking in community support vs the rPi.




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