Raspberry pi 4 DIY NAS vs QNAP/Synology

[Thor]

So with the Raspberry Pi4 having Gigabit eithernet now I want to know if it worth building a DIY NAS with it.

(only thing I'm unsure about is SATA to USB and Raid on the PI).

The QNAP 2 Bay is R2700 and then 2 x 8TB hard drives would be R8500

So that is very expensive for a home NAS hence why I was thinking of using the PI.

 

[Grant]

So with the Raspberry Pi4 having Gigabit eithernet now I want to know if it worth building a DIY NAS with it.

(only thing I'm unsure about is SATA to USB and Raid on the PI).

The QNAP 2 Bay is R2700 and then 2 x 8TB hard drives would be R8500

So that is very expensive for a home NAS hence why I was thinking of using the PI.

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[Sinbad]

Not worth it. I doubt the pi has the io bandwidth available to it.

Just use an old pc with freenas on it.

 

[Thor]

Not worth it. I doubt the pi has the io bandwidth available to it.

Just use an old pc with freenas on it.

Broadcom BCM2711, Quad core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
4GB LPDDR4
2 USB 3.0 ports
Gigabit Ethernet
H.265 (4kp60 decode), H264 (1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode)

You can set up raid across the two USB 3 ports, the Pi has more than enough io bandwidth available to handle the job of a NAS.

 

[Thor]

With that said, this will be the base for my NAS:

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2/

 

[AdrianH]

Broadcom BCM2711, Quad core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
4GB LPDDR4
2 USB 3.0 ports
Gigabit Ethernet
H.265 (4kp60 decode), H264 (1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode)

You can set up raid across the two USB 3 ports, the Pi has more than enough io bandwidth available to handle the job of a NAS.

You'll likely need active cooling though. Been reading articles that the RPi4 gets a little toasty.

 

[Willie Trombone]

Not worth it. I doubt the pi has the io bandwidth available to it.

Just use an old pc with freenas on it.

https://medium.com/@ghalfacree/benchmarking-the-raspberry-pi-4-73e5afbcd54b
What kind of bandwidth would you want?

What does the Synology do?

 

[Willie Trombone]

You'll likely need active cooling though. Been reading articles that the RPi4 gets a little toasty.

I believe this is true. A big heat sink may not be enough for regular use.

 

[RonSwanson]

With that said, this will be the base for my NAS:

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2/

Nice unit for a firewall / VPN too, processor supports AES-NI.

 

[Hemps]

If you have an old dual core lying around you could turn it into a Synology https://xpenology.club/downloads/

I fiddled around with this and got the Business backup working on Proxmox, mounted a 6TB share with snapshots, must admit copy speeds are around 90Mb/s

 

[Gnome]

So with the Raspberry Pi4 having Gigabit eithernet now I want to know if it worth building a DIY NAS with it.

Even the original RPi could be used as remote storage, it would just be really slow.

If you want redundant storage, like RAID-Z, I would say definitely no, but if you don't mind spending a bunch of time setting up something custom then you can get JBOD going with it.

Question is: Is it worth all the time you need to spend vs just buying something x86 and running FreeNAS on it?