Banana Pi

[spellegrino]

Hi Phishfry,

I am now thinking of using the following based upon your advice https://www.pcengines.ch/apu4c4.htm (it also has a 64-bit CPU which is ideal for ZFS, although I do not think it has ECC memory, which is desirable for ZFS too).

I am thinking of connecting it to the following enclosure... https://www.ebuyer.com/700786-synol...MIl4ztqZ733wIV77_tCh2uzghAEAQYAiABEgIf2fD_BwE

What are your thoughts and comments in relation to this proposal? Thanks.

Regards,

-STacey Pellegrino

 

[Phishfry]

Well the problem is that the APU series only has 1 SATA port. So you would have to add some miniPCIe adapters for SATA.
That would not get you to 12 drives though. Most MiniPCIe SATA adapters only have two ports, so that is 5 drives.
These are driven through some oddball controller, not an LSI SAS controller that is preferred by me.
MiniPCIe only offers x1 PCIe lane so there is not much bandwidth to mess with.

I really know of no ideal baby NAS board.

 

[alexey123]

I build Xigmanas for BananaPi-M1

nas4free-bananaPI - Browse /Xigmanas at SourceForge.net

This is nas4free server for banana-PI board

sourceforge.net