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This is a weird article. It points out that yes, the server OS itself needs a partition sure - but if the author is using Alpine because as they say it’s so small, why bother with unreliable and potentially catastrophic USB boot? To save a few megabytes of disk space? Crazy.

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It's deffinately not the perfect file server. From using usb drives, 15 year old atom CPU, 2gb of ram and raid 5 for the drives... Just some of the reasons.

Granted, yes, the author should have chosen a more specific and less clickbaity title. But titles need to be short and pithy when dealing with the goldfish attention spans many people have.

So a better, more accurate title could be,

>“The perfect low-cost/no-cost file server utilizing old/upcycled and possibly obsolete hardware”

Except that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue with aplomb.

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