I'm confused. How could building a Pi with 6 HDD be anything but an expense? What's your business model to make a profit?Earlier this year i also build this with a pi 5 and 6 HDD's - its getting closer to making a profit each month, and that is the one with a public dashboard.
https://youtu.be/zD5zkPcbtaw
I'd be interested in that too. With five drives on a single PCIe lane performance is going to be interesting. If all the drives are active you'll be lucky if you can saturate the ethernet connection. And copying data between two drives is going to be half that speed.
When I rebuild my current CM4 based NAS onto a CM5 (a project for the spring) I'll probably put the OS back onto SD card/EMMC, spread the data drives across both USB 3 ports (more bandwidth per drive given the PCIe x4 link between RP1 and SoC) and stick a second ethernet card in via PCIe. Bonded with the on board one for more network bandwidth.
But that's me. And I can't see the point of a 72TB Pi based server let alone a business model for it. Oh, and I've my doubts about airflow in the "case" used in the video.
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Fri Dec 27, 2024 6:10 pm
