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Raspberry Pi NAS vs. Asustor – Hardware Setup
- geerlingguy 6y agoFull disclosure: ASUSTOR sent me their Lockerstor 4 NAS, and the rep also convinced Seagate to send me four IronWolf NAS drives to make the comparison fair, using latest-gen hard drives. There's also a blog post with just the hardware details (light on narration): https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/building-25-gbps-5-drive-pi-nas-hardware-setup https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/building-25-gbps-5-dr... Next week I'm planning on the follow-up, with performance benchmarks, a comparison of the software and RAID setup process, and at least my initial verdict after working with both NASes for a few weeks (I've actually had them running for a couple months now, with the Pi doing surprisingly well, giving ~200 MB/sec network copies in most conditions. On the flip side, the Pi also seems to kind of 'pause' a copy every now and then, if I try saturating the bus with a very large copy using RAID 0/1/10.