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An RPI4 w/ SSD for $6 is probably the best compute for the buck right now in colo prices. This basically looks like a BYO hardware setup where they can maximize economics due to the RPI form factor being consistent.

I’d like to see the same thing but with a Mac mini.

There have been Mac Mini colos for ages.

I don't see how much use you would get out of a 2TB or 4TB SATA SSD attached to a raspberry pi if the network is locked at 10Mbps throughput.

~10.5 days per TB over 10Mbps :)

for the very patient rclone users

Depending on use that might be enough. I synced 1.4tb over multiple days with like 30mbit/s. Who cares?

A use case with that bandwidth is shipping them a disk with a full backup and rsyncing the incrementals day by day.

Thank you, as far as we could find out, this is really unique.

GPIO: Currently there are no plans for this yet. It is not possible at the moment, we point this out during checkout and on the colocation administration page. However, we think nothing is impossible. If you have a use case, feel free to write me at colocation@examesh.de ;)