General discussion • RPI NAS with 2x4TB storage: comments please

Hi. This is my first time on the forum. I’m new to Raspberry Pi.

I’m thinking of putting together a NAS on a wired ethernet connection with 4TB of RAID1 storage. The box would ideally run a minimal install of Debian stable as I only really need rsync and ssh for backups. It would be great if the box could be woken with wake-on-lan (WoL) and be pretty power efficient. My budget is around £500.

I came across the Waveshare CM4 NAS box which can take 2 x NVME drives and requires only an RPi compute module 4. (I don’t expect to make full use of the speed of the NVME drives.)

There seem to be other interesting possibilities out there, such as the Wiretrustee SATA, but the Waveshare seems smaller and more convenient. I’m a bit worried about heat dissipation, though.

I’d be grateful for comments on the feasibility of my proposed setup, which is detailed below.

Thanks!
Rory

Waveshare CM4
https://www.waveshare.com/cm4-nvme-nas-box.htm
About £88.52

RPI Compute module 4
CM4008008 (8GB storage, 8GB RAM) for boot disk
About £80

2 x NVME drives
For swap, tmp and storage
2x Fikwot FN950 4TB (~ @£170 on sale; never used these)
About £340

OS
Use a Debian image from https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/

WoL
Wake On LAN doesn’t seem to be supported on Raspberry Pis

Statistics: Posted by rorycl — Sat May 25, 2024 4:38 pm

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