playing with another Pi this time replacing my ageing enormous file/backup server with a Pi

still waiting video from last build <hint hint>

Have you used http://cpc.farnell.com/pi-supply/poe-switch-hat/pi-poe-switch-hat-for-raspberry/dp/SC14178?st=PoE%20HAT

Originally posted by philsbbs
still waiting video from last build <hint hint>

on hold till the weather gets better, freaked the cat out

Originally posted by philsbbs
Have you used http://cpc.farnell.com/pi-supply/poe-switch-hat/pi-poe-switch-hat-for-raspberry/dp/SC14178?st=PoE%20HAT

Yes, although the new 3b+ comes with a separate POE header plug so will need to wait for new boards to come out that use that rather than the gpio header.
Results of my initial backup tests were great (it backed up two remote servers using URBackup while downloading 100K files via ftp and bearely broke into a sweat), so looks like I will be retiring my aged (very large) file server for something that will fit in a cigarette packet

The new server, picture of old server to follow as comparison

black box underneath is a 2TB USB drive.

Thanks for sharing love see photos of people set up. It's crazy you can get 4tb small portable drives now. Also 14gig drives are out too (if you know the right people). I added a touch screen to my pi.