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I was hoping for a bit better performance. Any suggestions for similar that could max out 4-5 drives, maybe add a M.2/U.2 for caching (or 2), and handle 2.5 gb
by sliken 5y ago
I was hoping for a bit better performance. Any suggestions for similar that could max out 4-5 drives, maybe add a M.2/U.2 for caching (or 2), and handle 2.5 gbit ethernet?
- Shank 5y agoIf you want that many drives you’re better off with a proper NAS and a RAID setup imho. If you want an M.2 drive for caching, you’re basically in Synology territory if you throw your other requirements on top. Sure, it’s not running an OS flavored for the Pi, but everything else you want is covered.
- geerlingguy 5y agoDitto—though I'm also testing the Radxa Taco, which is hopefully coming soon. It has a 2.5 Gbps network port and M.2 slot, but the overall bus is still limited to 5 Gbps (3.6 Gbps real-world) because of the Pi's internal PCIe x1 Gen 2 lane. If you really need the sustained performance, especially if you want to use it for things like transcoding, it's better to get more supported hardware.
- jagger27 5y agoIt's stunning how much can be done with a single ancient PCIe 2.0 x1 lane.
- westpfelia 5y agoThe max bus throughput was always something that was the real limit with Pi's. Luckily they are getting better and better. I'm still rocking a first gen Pi as my Pihole. Dont need too much power for dns queries.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoSynology 420+ ticks all of those boxes. I have one and love it.
- sliken 5y agoCan you run debian or similar on the synology 420+ so that when synology dies, merges, abandons the 420+, is bought, or just changes their mind that I can switch to something with updates?
- MichaelBurge 5y agoI think you want a Synology or QNAP device at that point. I bought one of these for $550: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-932px https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-932px 5 HDDs and 4 SSDs for caching, with 10gbit fiber or 2.5gbit ethernet. I have 40 terabytes of storage in mine(21TB free). If I ever fill it up, I'll probably buy an actual storage server with ~500TB of drives.
- sliken 5y agoCan you run debian or similar on the ts-932px so that when synology dies, merges, abandons the ts-932px, is bought, or just changes their mind that I can switch to something with updates?
- MichaelBurge 5y agoThe QNAP OS is already a variant of Linux, so with enough work you could make it run anything you want. I haven't tried or looked for instructions on it, though. But, the data is more important than the OS here. And the filesystem is a variant of ext4 and there's some instructions floating around on how to mount drives on an external standard Linux machine to recover said data in the event of a disaster. You should also back up the data regularly so it doesn't matter if the hardware or company fail.
- sliken 5y agoWell the trick is, can a user do it themselves. Is there a locked bootloader? Proprietary binaries? Etc. I'd be find with a vendor linux, but vendors tend to get bored with older products, drop support, go bankrupt, get purchased, revoke previously promised functionality, have security holes in their addons, etc.