I finally got a Pi after hearing my cousin talk about it a few times over the past few days. I so far am amazed at the performance to price ratio. Below are benchmark results for it and the thecweb.com server(which is quite old really). For ~$125 it is a steal.
| Benchmark | thcweb.com | pi5 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU events per second | 1062.19 | 2730.24 |
| Memory MiB/sec | 6025.36 | 3649.76 |
| File IO read MiB/sec | 19.10 | 9.46 |
| File IO write MiB/sec | 12.73 | 6.31 |
So, the pi5 appears to be much faster than the Intel Core i5-4570T running thecweb.com. But, not surprisingly the pi5 can’t compete with the memory and file io.
Since it has 8 GB of RAM and CPU to spare, I installed all the recommended software when I copied the OS to the SD card. It comes with some lightweight window manager I don’t recognize and a few useful tools for updating the Pi and what not. Debian based to nothing new for me there. I moved the webcam over to it from thecweb.com and installed Motion. It seems to work fine.
So far I really haven’t had much fun setting it up. Too easy. But, I’m sure I’ll be tearing my hair out once I get to the electrical side of things. It has been over 20 years since my time a Devry. And I was a real shitty student.