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Radxa’s Penta SATA HAT fits nicely atop the Raspberry Pi 5. Can I use it to build the ultimate Pi 5 NAS? Or will we run into issues?
This video is not sponsored, neither Open Sauce nor Radxa paid anything, nor did they have any input into this video—however I did recieve the Radxa Penta SATA HAT featured in this video for review, as well as the Pineberry Pi boards.
My build included the following (some links are affiliate links):
- Raspberry Pi 5 8GB:
- Radxa Penta SATA HAT:
- TMEZON 12V 5A Power Adapter:
- SanDisk Extreme 32GB microSD Card:
- Samsung 870 QVO SSDs: (NOTE: these went way up in price... I would recommend cheaper 2 or 4TB SSDs instead)
- ThirdReality Zigbee Smart Plug Gen 2:
You have two options for 2.5 Gbps networking, if you want it. First, for all PCIe, and stackable boards:
- Pineberry Pi HatBRICK! Commander:
- Pineberry Pi HatNET! :
But that will downgrade the PCIe connections to Gen 2.
The second option keeps Gen 3 speed for the disks and gets slightly better performance (in fact, slightly better than the switch), using a USB 3 Ethernet adapter. I used this Plugable adapter:
Guides I referenced:
- GitHub issue with full build details and benchmarks:
- Blog post on macOS Finder Samba slowness:
- Create a RAID array in Linux:
- Create a Samba share on Pi:
- Set up OMV on Pi:
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Merch:
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Contents:
00:00 - The Ultimate Pi 5 NAS
01:35 - YOLO this thing
03:51 - Assembly
08:14 - (Don’t) release the magic smoke
10:08 - Software setup - RAID 0
12:59 - It’s hot
15:05 - Benchmarking RAID 0
16:54 - Open Sauce
17:45 - Reads over writes
18:56 - Networking
22:06 - But is it faster?
23:33 - OMV ZFS Setup
27:42 - ZFS Performance
30:37 - Oops.
31:17 - DIY or Buy?
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