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ORICO 4 Bay Multi-Bay External Storage DAS Solution (9848RU3) on sale for $199.95 - $85.98 with promo code
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Details:
- Flexible RAID Support: 8 modes including RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, JBOD, CLONE, and CLEAR for data backup and personalized needs
- High Capacity: Supports up to 22TB per 3.5" SATA disk with maximum total capacity of 88TB
- Fast Data Transfer: USB 3.0 with SATA 6Gbps delivers up to 235 MB/s transmission speed
- High Power Supply: Built-in 150W power supply ensures stable multi-disk operation; compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Excellent Heat Dissipation: Aluminum enclosure with 80mm silent cooling fan and front/rear vents for efficient cooling
- Safety Protection: Tray-less design with independent safety lock prevents accidental hard drive ejection or loss
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DAS = Directly attached storage (this)
NAS = Network attached storage
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Add this to a mini PC and you have a very competent NAS for less than Synology costs.
As for building a NAS from scratch, I'd pick up a NAS board on AliExpress instead of going the Pi route.
They tend come with way better CPUs, 6 or more SATA ports, and decent ITX layout for more expansion (often including PCIe slots). Some can even double as a router with 4 or more 2.5Gb and 10Gb Ethernet ports.
If you need a little more compute and may want to add a GPU, there's also x99 ES boards popping up that look very compelling. Some have HS or HX series Intel i9s in them.
The Raspberry Pi is always going to be limited by bandwidth either from the storage or the Ethernet, even if you were to add something like a PCIe hat to the Pi5.
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As cool as the concept is to use a pi as a server, it is not the best choice if you are starting the server from scratch is a used old laptop running linux would be a better choice. A old pc/laptop will have enough to power any external drive long term.
So yea a box like this hooked up to your pc via a single usb 3 line is possuible, but idealy. you would want those drives in a mb native sata IO configuration for data speed. It will be limited to usb 3 speeds through al of the drives.
In my perfect pi world, I would have a 5 port powerd hub (20a - 30a 5vdc or so) to provide a satable power scource to the hard drives.
In my mind, I figued the best server for me was a "NUC". The ddr4 versions are cheap (gen 7 to 11 intel) they are are as cheap a a loaded pi and case.. It is also infanataly configurable.
Also if their other products are any indication, the USB gets flaky on this device when there's high throughput.
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A single USB 3.0 drive can bog it down.
Also, not sure what you have against USB.
There are plenty Gen 3.2 DAS that do 10Gbps reliably, so I'm not sure how 3.0 5Gbps is so unheard of to you.
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