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DIY Raspberry / Orange Pi NAS That Looks Like a NAS - 2023 Edition
Author : axiomdata316
Score : 89 points
Date : 2023-01-15 18:22 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| mosselman wrote:
| Is this booting from USB or from the sd-card? I can't figure it
| out from the installation instructions.
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| If it is the sd-card then poor installation.
| axiomdata316 wrote:
| What is an ideal setup that doesn't use that method?
| mosselman wrote:
| I am not sure if I understand your question, but what I was
| hinting at is the reliabilty of the sd-card.
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| I've had several Raspberry installations get corrupted due to
| power outage, which the sd-card can't handle at all.
|
| Back then I didn't get booting from SSD through a USB-Sata
| adapter working. I've read that it is easier now though.
|
| What is your experience?
| bornfreddy wrote:
| Read-only sd card works pretty well though in my
| experience. You can make it rw for upgrades and remount to
| ro once done. All the files which need write access (but
| you don't care about preserving) can be "saved" to tmpfs.
| Shared404 wrote:
| I'm currently using the read-only Alpine install for my
| Raspberry Pi based wireless AP.
|
| Quite functional so far.
| smellstalefeet wrote:
| I just moved my Home Assistant from SD to SSD and it
| couldn't have been easier. Using the USB-Sata adapter I
| plugged my SSD into my Mac and then used Balena Etcher to
| dump the HA image directly to the SSD. Plugged it into my
| Pi and it fired up just like it would've if it had imaged
| to the SD card. I was pleasantly surprised with how easy it
| was and it's nice to have HA running off of an SSD now.
| andreasha wrote:
| You can clone it while running as well [0]. For speed
| make sure the adapter is USB3.0 and plugs into one of the
| USB3.0 ports on the pi and also that it supports UASP and
| enable trim on the drive [1].
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| [0] https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone
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| [1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-
| usb-boot...
| pja wrote:
| Pi4 will boot straight from a USB drive. Given the
| unreliability of sd-cards this is preferable if you need a
| USB drive anyway.
| okaliptos wrote:
| [dead]
| stuntkite wrote:
| Orange PiNAS goes hard in 2023.
| smashed wrote:
| This is a cool project and I am happy to see interest in this
| sort of thing.
|
| Too bad though that general purpose SBC's kind of suck for
| NAS/Storage though. Both the rpi4 and orange pi zero mentioned in
| the project lack any kind of SATA port and relies on usb to sata.
|
| The best project I saw was the Helios4/Helios64
| (https://kobol.io/), but sadly, they folded in 2021. Is there
| anything even remotely similar around?
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| Right now I am still using intel-based mini-pc's for diy NAS
| storage as they simply work better.
| tyingq wrote:
| Not ARM, but there's the Odroid H3 and H3+.
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| https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3/
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| https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-plus/
| hanklazard wrote:
| Yeah, these seem pretty great for a small NAS, especially
| with a simple mirrored ZFS setup.
| MaKey wrote:
| I'd love to have something similar with ECC RAM.
| tyingq wrote:
| Expensive, but the FAQ says it supports ECC:
|
| https://morefine.com/products/morefine-s500-mini-pc
|
| And it has 2 NVME slots.
| sprash wrote:
| > Is there anything even remotely similar around?
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| There is GnuBee [1] with two models for 2.5" drives [2] and
| 3.5" drives [3].
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| 1.: http://gnubee.org/
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| 2.: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1
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| 3.: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2
| ajb wrote:
| There is also the odroid hc4. It only has two slots, but the
| argument is, for the price you may as well expand by getting
| multiple of them.
| lokl wrote:
| ODROID-HC4 (toaster), ODROID-HC4-P KIT (horizontal drives in
| enclosure)
| Palomides wrote:
| it seems like none of the consumer-level ARM chips expose
| enough PCIe lanes to do anything interesting, no SATA
| controllers or 10Gb+ ethernet
| ranma42 wrote:
| RK3568 / RK3588 have 3 SATA controllers and for example the
| Rock Pi 3A seems to have the SATA routed to the bottom m.2
| connector, as well as the possibility to switch the USB3 port
| over to SATA
|
| https://linuxgizmos.com/pi-like-rk3568-sbc-grows-sata-out-
| of...
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| "The Rock 3 Model A exploits the RK3568's ability to
| multiplex SERDES lanes to enable SATA support on the dual USB
| 3.0 ports (OTG and host) via a SATA breakout cable."
| rektide wrote:
| Orange Pi 5 (rk3588 based) has m.2 pcie 2.0. I think maybe
| only a lane?
| Matsta wrote:
| Yep, you can get an m2 to SATA breakout board pretty cheap.
|
| If you pickup a Rock 5b (rk3588 as well) you will get 2.5g
| ethernet too.
| bornfreddy wrote:
| There is Argon Eon which gets good reviews, but I haven't
| decided to try it yet. A bit more expensive than this diy - 180
| EUR [0]. It has space for 2x 2.5 inch and 2x 3.5 inch disks. If
| someone has it, I would be curious to know how good it is.
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| [0]
| https://www.en.galagomarket.com//item/display/3130/10443_ohi...
| gymbeaux wrote:
| My "NAS" is a "slim" Intel NUC 8 with a 3D-printed "riser" that
| allows it to fit a 4TB (15mm) 2.5" HDD. No redundancy of
| course, but otherwise it's superior to a legit NAS or Pi NAS in
| every way.
| r3trohack3r wrote:
| First time I've heard of an Orange Pi.
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