[talk] NAS hardware

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 11:35 PM Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Ipsen S Ripsbusker <ipsens at ripsbusker.no.eu.org> writes:
>
> > I want to make a small NAS with two disks in RAID1, or even just one
> disk. Its only purpose will be to take nightly backups of less than 1GB.
> What hardware should I use?
> >
> > The hardest part might be finding a case that small.
>
> Depending on if this is for home or for work, you can take an RPi and
> connect two external HD's to it setup in a zraid (or mirror is probably
> best).
>

Be careful, though, as the usb bus will be taxed potentially with two
drives and the network traffic on it, so there is a 3x factor here. Since
it isn't USB 3, you are limited to 480Mb/s, or 60MB/s total, or 20MB/s max
throughput.

Warner


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