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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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- 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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Ultimately I migrated back to a low-tech solution of external drives (18 and 20 TB), connected individually to a hub. I've used most solutions including RAID (0,1,etc., (RAID 0 is for fools
Are the drives fast? Not really. Do I need to worry about network attachment, managing a cluster, or powering up 4 drives if I only need one? Nope. It all depends on what you really need, but I'll take my current solution over a single box of any kind.
I bought this one instead. eSATA and $93 right now after 15% coupon.
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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.
- This DAS in particular, over USB 3.0, is "up to 235 MB/s" according to the marketing copy both on the link and the post. That's not even 5Gbps.
- The Pi has Gigabit Ethernet. GbE is 1 Gbps, or ~108 MB/s.
- What you don't seem to realize is that the "shared bus" you are talking about is PCIe 2.0 x4, or 2,000 MB/s. Do you see why it would be impossible to "bog it down" even if you max out both the USB and Ethernet ports at the same time?
- Further, the "SATA 6" (SATA III) in the marketing speak is the internal speed of the individual bays. Each link is 600 MB/s, but there are four of them. So, assuming you're reading from each drive simultaneously, for instance under RAID 1, internally the DAS is reading at 4x600 MB/s = 2400 MB/s but the catch is that it bottlenecks at USB on the DAS, again, at 235 MB/s. This is regardless of what hardware you have at the other end, whether it's a Pi or a full desktop with a dedicated USB 3.0 PCIe expansion card.
- What I have against USB here is both that, again, in my experience other ORICO products tends to flake out over high bandwidth USB transfers. Maybe that's the case with this product, maybe not. Either way it was worth mentioning.
- What I also have against USB here is that this unit can hold 4x22 TB = 88 TB of data. Presumably that means you're using a decent chunk of that. You might stock it with smaller or a lesser amount of drives, but you're not buying this if you only have like 4 TB of data to store. Personally, I don't want to transfer terabytes of data back and forth at "up to" 235 MB/s even if the connection stays stable. Do you?
- As you yourself mentioned, the Pi (at least the 5) has a PCIe 3.0 lane exposed that you can access if you add an NVMe or Oculink hat. However, refer to my bullet point above in regards to the bottleneck inside the DAS->USB link itself. Besides, this product doesn't appear to have either.
So once again...you're concerned about the bottleneck (that doesn't really exist) on the Pi side when this product is USB?
Edit: For anyone reading this who's still interested, https://slickdeals.net/f/19470963-wavlink-rapidfire-4-bay-3-5-2-5-sata-hard-drive-enclosure-w-10gbps-usb-c-3-2-88tb-max-capacity-4k-hdmi-output-99-99-free-shipping is also 4x22 TB, USB 3.2 10 Gbps instead of USB 3.0 5 Gbps, it's $14 cheaper, and does 2.5" drives in addition to 3.5" ones. It also has dual fans instead of a single one and it has 4K HDMI out. It also appears to have limited USB hub capabilities since there's "PC in" and "USB out" USB-C slots. However, it doesn't appear to support RAID, if that's important to you; it's just a JBOD unit. You can, however, power the drives up and down individually via switches on the back.
You'll have to get it from Newegg instead of Amazon, unfortunately. I can't vouch for its quality, either, but Wavlink and ORICO are both fairly well known budget tier brands.
The vastly overpriced Pi5 won't have this issue because of dedicated PCIe lanes, but every other Pi prior will.
They currently want $300 for the 16GB Pi5, not sure, let's recommend that for someone trying for a small setup.
I addressed your talking points head on. You addressed none of mine in this reply and addressed a bunch of things I didn't say in your previous one. Also, you brought up the Pi5 initially, not me. Remember the talk about PCIe hats? You explicitly mentioned the Pi5.
The funniest part is that even if you'd just said "Pi" we would still only be talking about the Pi5 because it's the first model that exposes a PCIe lane...yet here you are, trying to pretend that I'm the ridiculous one for bringing it up and that there are cheaper alternative choices, which is suddenly an issue.
Not to mention that once again, the bottleneck happens in the DAS long before it's a bottleneck with any model of Pi. Because it's USB.
Nothing worse than a know-it-all who doesn't actually know it all and yet still tries to talk down to others on the basis of made up "facts".
Edit: Formatting.
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.
if you like to lose money
restricted to a list of HDD like WD Red
support that takes weeks, months
and finally lose data anyway
i know folks who have lost their entire business backup TBs of decades of data
never again
Ultimately I migrated back to a low-tech solution of external drives (18 and 20 TB), connected individually to a hub. I've used most solutions including RAID (0,1,etc., (RAID 0 is for fools
Are the drives fast? Not really. Do I need to worry about network attachment, managing a cluster, or powering up 4 drives if I only need one? Nope. It all depends on what you really need, but I'll take my current solution over a single box of any kind.
did the same
after learning the hard way
Synology is a scam
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