Re: Raspberry NAS, anyone?

On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, Lars Poulsen wrote:

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:32:07 +0100, D wrote:

I wonder if it would be possible to build a PB storage system for
archive use cases on a bunch of Pi 5? =) Does it have any good ways to
connect disks, or is it still only USB? I wonder how many disks per
system it could handle with confidence?

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

https://smist08.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/raspberry-pi-5-with-ssd/
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The Pi 5 has a PCIe port and there are Raspberry and third party NMVe
solutions.

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On 2025-01-18, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Interesting! Thank you for the link. This could be a fun hobby project. I
wonder if it would be possible, over time, to get it to such a state that
someone might actually consider using it in production environments? With
sounds and strong redundancy, maybe!

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I have a shelf with IDE/PATA and SATA drives from 200GB and up, that I have
not had the heart to throw out. Would it be worth the trouble to find an
enclosure and build a NAS out of them? Probably not. The enclosures that
can hold 4-6 drives seem to cost twice what a 4 TB USB-3 archive drive
costs, so a Pi-4, a USB-3 hub, and two of those wrapped up with rubber
bands in a shoebox would be cheaper.

This works. I've had similar setups at one point of another. These days I stick with 2 x 4 TB drives in a Zyxel NAS (great!) and 2 x 4 TB drives in a Dlink (horrible!) NAS, and that's worked for about 10 years or so.
I had a look today for fun at Pi 5 LSI controllers and I wonder how many spinning SAS disks a single Pi 5 can drive without power problems?

Would anyone like a couple of smaller (say 200 MB) drives for repairing
antique systems that can't handle more than 32 bits worth of space?

Somewhere in a dark corner of my attic storage space, there is a quantum bigfoot with a copy of my old BBS. I always wonder if it is beyond repair and/or restore? Would be fun to see the "elite haxor" stuff from my childhood! =)