Raspbian

The Pi 3B+ was the home-media workhorse for years: a 1 GB armv7l box on Raspbian that quietly served DLNA and seeded torrents off a portable SSD. Retired 2026-05-19 — its disk and both services have moved to the RPI4. The page below is kept as a historical record (and as fallback documentation in case the migration ever needs to be undone).

Hardware#

• Raspberry Pi 3B+, 1 GB RAM, armv7l (32-bit)
• 128 GB micro-SD root
• Previously held a 466 GB Samsung T5 SSD — now lives on the RPI4

OS / kernel#

• Raspbian 12 bookworm, kernel 6.6.60-v7+
• 96-day uptime when the SSD was unplugged
• NetworkManager + wpa_supplicant for Wi-Fi
• mDNS at raspberrypi.local

Role (historical)#

• minidlna on port 8200 serving /mnt/media over UPnP / DLNA — discoverable by VLC / Finder / smart TVs as “raspberrypi”
• rtorrent as a persistent torrent box, session at /mnt/media/torrents/session, watch dir at /mnt/media/torrents/watch, config ~kiyomi/.rtorrent.rc
• LXDE desktop via lightdm, CUPS print server, vnStat traffic monitor

Status#

• Retired 2026-05-19. Media + rtorrent role absorbed by the Manjaro RPI4.
• Kept reachable for ~1 week as a rollback path, then powered down.
• Pi 3B+ + SD card retained as a spare board.