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I'm very happy about that ! I needed to build a low power Nas with ZFS and the only board that could do the job (gigabit Ethernet, sata IO, powerful 64 bits pr
by icefo 7y ago
I'm very happy about that !
I needed to build a low power Nas with ZFS and the only board that could do the job (gigabit Ethernet, sata IO, powerful 64 bits processor, 4GB of ram) was the rockpro64. Sadly I discovered after receiving it that it can't run regular Linux distros out of the box. I had to download an image from some guy on GitHub. He seemed reasonably trustworthy since it was linked from the manufacturer's page but there's still a small chance that my Nas is part of some botnet now. It's something that can't happen with major manufacturer's like raspberry.
- amelius 7y ago> (gigabit Ethernet, sata IO, powerful 64 bits processor) The RPi4 doesn't have sata.
- icefo 7y agoDamn I read the article a bit too fast, neither does the rockpro64 but it has pci-e and the manufacturer sells a sata card. An usb3-> sata adaptater is ok if the USB bus is reasonably fast. I care more about being able to update my board and trusting what runs on it than pure speed
- leemailll 7y agoYou can take a look at odriod’s x86 board
- listic 7y agoHow exactly do you plan to connect hard drives to a Raspberry Pi? Use drives in external USB enclosures just lying around? Looks a bit hacky to me. I am planning on doing a NAS to, but decide to forgo the low power aspect and use an older PC hardware. But not too old, apparently, as FreeNAS requires 64-bit and 8+ GB of RAM, nowadays, for the ZFS, apparently.