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blundaruss

blundaruss

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Looking at building a NAS using a raspberry pie. I am using a raspberry pie for a couple of reasons 1. I have one which isnt being used at the moment 2. Low power usage.

Anyway, I'm looking at hard drives and I see there are NAS specific hard drives especially WD RED. I'm assuming these only benefit if you have an actual NAS enclosure?
 
blundaruss said:
Anyway, I'm looking at hard drives and I see there are NAS specific hard drives especially WD RED. I'm assuming these only benefit if you have an actual NAS enclosure?
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WD red etc are of benefit in any storage system not just a nas. They offer longer MTBF failure rates and are engineered to be less susceptible to vibration E.g when using several drives.


As others have said think more of an issue is how you will connect them to a raspberry pi (as opposed to an actual pie :) )
 
Trouble with using a pi as a NAS. 100mbit lan, usb2 connection to hdd.

Just buy a Synology NAS with red drives. Do it properly, once.
 
did think of this (assuming pi 2)
Startech USB 2.0 to Gigabit Ethernet NIC Network Adapter (depending upon the chipset, drivers aren't likely to available)
but the onboard nic is actually a usb -nic all the usbs go though an onboard usb hub

he could house the drives in a usb attached DAS, but with the usb limitations listed above, I'd be surprised if he could sustain 15MB/s transfer rate, but I could be wrong he may get full usb 2 transfer speed.

I may actually try a disk to disk transfer via the pi's usb's. ... but not tonight.
 
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Its only a raspberry pie 1. The thing is i wanted to make an always on server for *cough* torrent box *cough*

Although i guess i could still use the pie for that reason and get a seperate NAS. I assume they power down if not in use? Just concious about how much power i use.
 
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