Raspberry as NAS, multiple HDDs and an enclosure

It seems weirdly difficult to find a good solution to attach HDDs to my pi. Best case would be for me a enclosure with small power supply, space for my pi, and at least 2 bays for HDDs, rather 4. All that for under 100€ of cause :D

I could not really find cheap hhd enclosures that connect via usb. Any recommendations? I don’t really want to use HDD toasters, they feel not permanent enough for a Nas. I could also not find sata to usb hats for the pi that are available right now

fart_pickle,

I’m using terramaster as hdd enclosure. I have two of those, both connected to lenovo thinkcentre. I’ve tried rpi but I needed more power hence the lenovo thingy.

rambos,

Pi NAS is a big pile of cables and adapters IMO. You can buy used PC with multiple SATA or M2 ports for 100€

thedirtyknapkin,

yeah, once you have the drives, building the rest of the system can be done for dummy cheap if you look at like cheap used workstations that some company or school is offloading. and it would still probably be a more capable system all around.

beeng,

I ripped out the control board of the 2x bay toaster and then bought some sata extension cables (with power) for 2x HDDs. 3D printed a little drive bay type thing and then slapped the raspi on top with the usb controller. It works great!

Works for my usecase of basic NAS /SMB /SFTP and I can stream 1080p etc.

But would look to sata in the future also like you mention, couldn’t find a hat, but USB speeds are fine for me.

possiblylinux127,

Your raspberry pi doesn’t have sata or pcie support. Depending on your use case you may want something other than USB as USB is slow

BearOfaTime,

And likes to drop the connection.

Oisteink,

I think your best option would be a pi 4 compute for high speed bus. www.waveshare.com/cm4-nas-double-deck-c4a.htm

krigo666,

There are several solutions but will be above the budget. Best solution is the Argon Eon case for the RPi 4. I’m waiting for a version for the RPi 5.

Can house the Pi and either 4x 2.5" drives or 2x 2.5" and 2x 3.5" drives, all SATA.

atzanteol,

It seems weirdly difficult to find a good solution to attach HDDs to my pi.

Being a nas is not at all what a pi is made for. So it’s not surprising at all.

JonhhyWanker,

The Raspberry Pi would be a great low power device to have always on with some storage attached to backup to, store family photos, etc.

So not a high performance NAS, but good enough for this use case.

atzanteol,

not a high performance NAS

That is an understatement.

loganb,

I dont know if this qualifies as a “toaster” but Ive used this docking bay in the past for a NAS and it served my purposes decently well. One thing to keep in mind is that random IO will be lacking with a usb interface. Also, this particular chipset does powercycle all the drives when one is removed so drive swaps end up requiring you to power the entire system off to perform. Also no integrated cooling may be a deal breaker as you illuded to.

If I was basing a nas build off of a PI, I would look to use the PCIe 1x2.0 interface on the pi 5 as a HBA.

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