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Building a tiny 6-drive M.2 NAS with the Rock 5 model B
- pm2222 3y agoWish this kind of hw were available for x86. Just give us the m2 slots and let software take care of the rest.
- jqpabc123 3y agoBuy a x86 motherboard and plug this into it. https://www.newegg.com/riitop-4p-nvtpce16x-pci-express-controller-card/p/17Z-0061-000A7?Description=pcie%20m.2%20adapter%20raid&cm_re=pcie_m.2%20adapter%20raid-_-9SIA6V8HR02789-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/riitop-4p-nvtpce16x-pci-express-contr...
- muziq 3y agoCan throughly recommend these.. Currently running one of these with 4x4TB and it’s lovely, as long as your Chipset supports PCI-E bifurcation..
- tw04 3y agoIt is: https://www.asustor.com/en/product?p_id=80 https://www.asustor.com/en/product?p_id=80 https://www.servethehome.com/asustor-flashstor-12-pro-fs6712x-review-12x-m-2-ssd-and-10gbase-t-nas-crucial/ https://www.servethehome.com/asustor-flashstor-12-pro-fs6712...
- rasz 3y agoits called $100 2 year old laptop with cracked screen
- pm2222 3y agofour slots or more and reasonable prize?
- rasz 3y ago1 to 4 pcie splitters are $10-20. In case of laptop you can use https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004873201793.html https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004873201793.html
- CameronNemo 3y agowho cares about slots old x86 kit has very good throughput even if a laptop will only typically expose a couple slots (btw the rock5 only has 2 m.2 slots, this uses a breakout board).
- geerlingguy 3y agoLattePanda or Zima Board plus some adapters is the closest possibility right now but there are price and power efficiency tradeoff a in both cases.
- gigel82 3y agoI'm confused about what I'm seeing. That machine has just 4 lanes of PCIE gen3. No details at all about the "daughterboards" / carrierboards for the M.2 drives. Also near the end he's talking about 100Mb/s write speeds, which is worse than what I'm getting with SATA HDDs (of the spinning rust variety). I have a whole bunch of 1Tb NVMe drives I pulled from servers and would really love an inexpensive solution to chuck them all in for a NAS, and this article's title gave me hope, but I don't think it's what I'm looking for.
- 1MachineElf 3y agoEven if the read speeds are limited by the drive interface, for a NAS, 100Mb/s decent for the most common denominating factor - a gigabit link.
- ehutch79 3y agoIt has a 2.5gb link, per the article
- rasz 3y agoIts a clickbait article from the "better than raspberry pi" variety
- CameronNemo 3y agoIt probably gives each drive 1 pcie gen2 lane? Or maybe two drives get a gen3 lane and the other four get gen2... I dunno. There is very little details on how he made it happen in the text, that is to be sure.
- geerlingguy 3y agoThis kit uses SATA, relying on one of those M.2 6-port SATA adapters for the split-out, and a custom PCB sandwich that routes the SATA signals to three sets of two slots.
- turnsout 3y agoThis is super cool. I wish the hardware was available to make a comparable tiny TrueNAS system with ECC ram.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoWould love to see RISC-V chips that compete for offering 4 - 32x lanes of PCIe. Hifive Unmatched has 16x PCIe 3.0, and is $665. It's 1.5 years old, and still one of the few sub $1000 systems with more than 4x lanes. https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched
- MR4D 3y agoI really hope that when the Pi 5 comes out that the one thing they change is the number of PCIe lanes in a meaningful way. As much as I’d like all sorts of other improvement, this one improvement is far above the rest for me.
- squarefoot 3y agoFor those who still don't trust solid state disks for a NAS, this one might be an option to use good old spinning rust drives with small Linux boards. https://www.ebay.com/itm/313880737600 https://www.ebay.com/itm/313880737600 The chip is well supported under Linux. https://www.jmicron.com/file/download/996/JMB585.pdf https://www.jmicron.com/file/download/996/JMB585.pdf There are also similar cards employing the JMB575 port multiplier. example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/134517464170 https://www.ebay.com/itm/134517464170 (no relation with the sellers, just search for "m.2 5 port sata")
- CameronNemo 3y agoSomeone has even spec'd out an RK3568-based NAS that uses a JMB585. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/User:CounterPillow/NAS-Board https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/User:CounterPillow/NAS-Board
- pm2222 3y agoI wish 2.5 SATA SSD could be powered with one data/power cable.
- eternityforest 3y agoI think if I was going to build a NAS, I would just use USB 3.0 drives. Easier to connect directly to for debugging, more common standard hardware and cases, and mostly fast enough. This might be amazing for non-NAS stuff with heavier bandwidth requirements though.