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Has anyone here ever tried making a NAS based on Cubieboard 3? I am thinking about it, because I need a small NAS that would be an archive, not a media server. We can find there GbE and SATA II, so I think that some 3D-printed case and 2TB WD Red HDD would be perfect for me. :)

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Looks like it's a single SATA port and you would need a separate power supply to power any 3.5" drives. This would be a fairly ineffective NAS device. Better to look into a cheap Atom motherboard.

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Just now, kerradeph said:

Looks like it's a single SATA port and you would need a separate power supply to power any 3.5" drives. This would be a fairly ineffective NAS device. Better to look into a cheap Atom motherboard.

Ok, but 2,5"? 

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Apparently it would power it but trying to run a NAS with a single 2.5" drive seems kind of pointless. It will have very little capacity. Building a NAS with this kind of board would indicate you're trying to do so on a budget and you best TB/$ rate is 3.5" drives.

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Just now, kerradeph said:

Apparently it would power it but trying to run a NAS with a single 2.5" drive seems kind of pointless. It will have very little capacity. Building a NAS with this kind of board would indicate you're trying to do so on a budget and you best TB/$ rate is 3.5" drives.

Ok, you won. :D Going to find sth else

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i have yet to find one of these maker boards that is decent as a NAS. Most cannot compete with an external USB 2.5" drive

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Just to be brave, you can try use an ARM board based on NXP i.MX 6 Quad. That thing have built-in SATA, gigabit Ethernet as well as PCIe port. I think you may be able to find one in mini-ITX form factor and throw in a hardware RAID card for faster and more reliable disk I/O.

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3 hours ago, maxtch said:

Just to be brave, you can try use an ARM board based on NXP i.MX 6 Quad. That thing have built-in SATA, gigabit Ethernet as well as PCIe port. I think you may be able to find one in mini-ITX form factor and throw in a hardware RAID card for faster and more reliable disk I/O.

Yeah, found some mini-ATX and going to buy i3-6100U with 4GB RAM. 4 drives 5 TB each, RAID 1+0. From a budget ARM-based I decided for high-end home build, RGB, 3D printed NAS. :) Linus likes that. :D

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3 minutes ago, NotSoEzAsIXpecteD said:

Yeah, found some mini-ATX and going to buy i3-6100U with 4GB RAM. 4 drives 5 TB each, RAID 1+0. From a budget ARM-based I decided for high-end home build, RGB, 3D printed NAS. :) Linus likes that. :D

I would prefer a second hand server grapde based build for home NAS. Those parts can last despite being used, and can be very cheap too.

The Fruit Pie: Core i7-9700K ~ 2x Team Force Vulkan 16GB DDR4-3200 ~ Gigabyte Z390 UD ~ XFX RX 480 Reference 8GB ~ WD Black NVMe 1TB ~ WD Black 2TB ~ macOS Monterey amd64

The Warship: Core i7-10700K ~ 2x G.Skill 16GB DDR4-3200 ~ Asus ROG Strix Z490-G Gaming Wi-Fi ~ PNY RTX 3060 12GB LHR ~ Samsung PM981 1.92TB ~ Windows 11 Education amd64
The ThreadStripper: 2x Xeon E5-2696v2 ~ 8x Kingston KVR 16GB DDR3-1600 Registered ECC ~ Asus Z9PE-D16 ~ Sapphire RX 480 Reference 8GB ~ WD Black NVMe 1TB ~ Ubuntu Linux 20.04 amd64

The Question Mark? Core i9-11900K ~ 2x Corsair Vengence 16GB DDR4-3000 @ DDR4-2933 ~ MSI Z590-A Pro ~ Sapphire Nitro RX 580 8GB ~ Samsung PM981A 960GB ~ Windows 11 Education amd64
Home server: Xeon E3-1231v3 ~ 2x Samsung 8GB DDR3-1600 Unbuffered ECC ~ Asus P9D-M ~ nVidia Tesla K20X 6GB ~ Broadcom MegaRAID 9271-8iCC ~ Gigabyte 480GB SATA SSD ~ 8x Mixed HDD 2TB ~ 16x Mixed HDD 3TB ~ Proxmox VE amd64

Laptop 1: Dell Latitude 3500 ~ Core i7-8565U ~ NVS 130 ~ 2x Samsung 16GB DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM ~ Samsung 960 Pro 512GB ~ Samsung 850 Evo 1TB ~ Windows 11 Education amd64
Laptop 2: Apple MacBookPro9.2 ~ Core i5-3210M ~ 2x Samsung 8GB DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM ~ Intel SSD 520 Series 480GB ~ macOS Catalina amd64

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