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On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:27 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I looked into the Raspberry and the newest version, about $150 now, |
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doesn't even have SATA ports. I can add a thing called a "hat" I think |
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that adds a couple but thing is, that costs more and still isn't enough. I |
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really don't like USB and hard drive mixing. Every time I do that, the |
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hard drive turns into a door stop. Currently, I have three Rosewill |
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external enclosures and they have USB and eSATA ports. I use the eSATA |
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connections and no problems. It's also really fast. So, I plan to stick |
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with SATA connections. |
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You do NOT want the Rasp Pi for this. You would have to compile and |
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maintain the OS yourself just adding work and the disk interfaces aren't |
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high performance enough. |
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Obviously you can do what you are most comfortable with but to me a NAS |
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machine with a bunch of external drives does not sound very reliable. |
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> I have a old computer that I might could use. It is 4 core something and |
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I think it has 4GBs of memory, maxed out. I think it will perform well |
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enough but wish it had a little more horses in it. |
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That's more than enough horsepower for TrueNAS Core. If the box will hold 3 |
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drives then you have 1 system drive and 2 data drives for a ZFS RAID1. |
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That's how both of my NAS boxes are set up. |
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You can buy more memory at lots of places inexpensively but you don't need |
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it to start. 4GB will work with TrueNAS Core. My machines have 8 & 12GB. I |
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never use it all. |
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https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/ |
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Even if your old box has only 2 drives, download TrueNAS and just set it up |
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on one systemdrive. It's not Gentoo difficult. It's a fully formed install |
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system which will probably be running in an hour. You can use 1 drive in |
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your data tank and add additional drives later. |
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The speed of a NAS is _mostly_ a balance between network speed and disk |
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speed. Processor usage for me is generally about 20%. If your network is |
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GigaBit then you can sustain somewhere about 850Mb/S on the cables which |
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translates nicely to about 100 MegaByte/S on your disk drives. There isn't |
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that much CPU usage as it's mostly compression when backing up. |
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Unless you use the box as a file server getting data back off is a once in |
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a while event where you don't care too much about speed, or at least I |
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don't. |
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Just do it. Download the install disc and give it a try. Nothing much to |
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lose. |
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Good luck. |
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Mark |
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