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I still don't see a RPI as useful as a nas. Especially with how cheap mini pc's are now.

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>I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My configuration for these Arm NASes is up on GitHub. I've been looking forward to TrueNAS support on Arm for years, though it seems the sentiment in that community was 'Arm servers aren't powerful enough to run serious storage servers'—despite myself and many others doing so for many years... but that's besides the point.

I still don't see a RPI as useful as a nas. Especially with how cheap mini pc's are now. Archive: https://archive.today/oXWVi From the post: >>I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My configuration for these Arm NASes is up on GitHub. I've been looking forward to TrueNAS support on Arm for years, though it seems the sentiment in that community was 'Arm servers aren't powerful enough to run serious storage servers'—despite myself and many others doing so for many years... but that's besides the point.

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Agree totally. Pi was cool when it was $40 bucks, it for the cost I can get a 10 year old i7 that’s smokes it. For about $30

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Yeah almost every pi project I come across, I always find myself thinking, "It'll be so much easier to just grab a $40 Dell or HP micro off eBay and use that instead."

Energy savings is really the only benefit a lot of the time but then you gotta square that with the increased buy in cost.

Unless your goal is just to tinker.

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There is no good reason you would want a Pi to be a NAS. I appreciate the effort and all, but just get a real computer for that. Keep your lane, Pi.

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Looked like a pain in the ass. It's cool, but not really worth the time unless you're making a YT video about it.

Though arm based true nas sounds like a great idea because of the power savings. Most of the time a nas is just sitting idle so extra power savings are always welcome.

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I've looked into Ampere Arm's. The motherboards seem expensive. How much money did you put into it?

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Not my post. I have a self-built trueScale server but it is built to do far more so it's running a Ryzen7 with 64gb of ram, 10gig networking..etc.