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NAS Build Idea

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Looking to see if you would do a NAS build using the Rasberry Pi and with hot swap bays that can accept 3.5" and/or 2.5" HDD's. Software could be FreeNAS. Needs to connect with gigabit ethernet to the home network.

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  • Steve,

    I love the Pi, though I've only been playing with mine for about a month. One thing I've noticed is that it's quite slow, at least in comparison to the average workstation. And using USB as the I/O channel seems like a very slow choice as well. If you plan to use a Pi-based NAS as a target for background, over-the-network backups (particularly if a slow Internet connection is bottlenecking the data anyway), that might work. But I don't think the Pi is a suitable platform to base a general-purpose NAS on if you hope to get even mediocre performance from it.

     

    I don't mean to sound surly, and I'd truly love to be shown how wrong I am if I'm just ignorantly blathering nonsense.

     

    The Fit PC3 from Tiny Green PC looks like it could be an interesting NAS platform that wouldn't break the bank. It's not so different from using the Pi in terms of the DIY-ness of the project. They're both complete, stand-alone computers that you can plug drives into. The Fit PC3 is just more ... fit for the purpose. :-)

     

    --Jeff

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  • Steve,

    I love the Pi, though I've only been playing with mine for about a month. One thing I've noticed is that it's quite slow, at least in comparison to the average workstation. And using USB as the I/O channel seems like a very slow choice as well. If you plan to use a Pi-based NAS as a target for background, over-the-network backups (particularly if a slow Internet connection is bottlenecking the data anyway), that might work. But I don't think the Pi is a suitable platform to base a general-purpose NAS on if you hope to get even mediocre performance from it.

     

    I don't mean to sound surly, and I'd truly love to be shown how wrong I am if I'm just ignorantly blathering nonsense.

     

    The Fit PC3 from Tiny Green PC looks like it could be an interesting NAS platform that wouldn't break the bank. It's not so different from using the Pi in terms of the DIY-ness of the project. They're both complete, stand-alone computers that you can plug drives into. The Fit PC3 is just more ... fit for the purpose. :-)

     

    --Jeff

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