You should maybe plan or mention what the NAS should do. How many SATA devices and what SSD HDD 3,5" 2.5" filesystem redundancy/RAIDI want to create a NAS using the Radxa Penta SATA HAT and I am in the documentation/purchasing phase. I would like to know what model of cooler might work best. Because (for example) the official active cooler doesn't seem to work out of the box.
I'm also wondering if it's possible to mount the HAT on the bottom (yes, I know what HAT means) for better cooling or to accommodate beefier coolers, like the ICE Tower or Argon THRML 60. Though I guess that would require the Pi to be laid on its side if I plan to also use the Penta SATA HAT Top Board.
And since I'm here I might as well ask if you would recommend the 4 or 8GB Pi 5 for this project.
In general a Pi5 is overkill for just basic Ext4 and a bit if parity calculations if RAID. So 'the fan will be off' mostly as 4x Cortex-A76 will be idle mostly. I build a NAS with 4x Cortex-A55 2GB SBC, only tiny heatsink, 1 SATA HDD and 1 NVME for cache. Only when on-the-fly Zstd compression it is max load, but even that issue I tuned now so fine. Is only 3 months old, right now there is already better similar priced SBCs 8nm SoC and 4x Cortex-A72, will need no heatsink at all. My NAS is in basement, will never reach normal room temperature, that is also part of the solution.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Sat Jun 28, 2025 8:57 am