Re: NAS

On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 06:55:59PM -0700, bch wrote:
> I?m entertaining the idea of a storage appliance, and wondering: does
> anybody have a recipe for building their own, or experience with
> whether or not it?s worth it? I suspect the single biggest issue is
> getting some small device w enough i/o to hang a RAID set off of it.
> What are the preferred boards for that. Other option is just treating
> it like a consumable and getting a buffalo device and accessing via
> Samba or such and trusting/hoping everything is working well.


I have done that with a GuruPlug in the past, currently a Quartz64 board,
and will move on to a Firefly P2S in the near future (hoping to get a SATA
port mulitplier working on that). Finding devices with enough SATA ports
and sockets for enough NVMEs is indeed the hard part. I think the Pine64
shop has a few offers that could fit.

Samba from pkgsrc worked good for me.

Martin