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
