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[Turgut Kalfaoglu]

Get an Orange PI 3 LTS.. it comes with 2 USB 3.0 ports -- which you can add a USB (powered) hub too if you'd like.
I have that Orange PI and it's sharing two drives.. Total cost? about $50 for the Orange PI plus the drives.
I have Ubuntu on it, so it's doing SMB, NFS and Rsync daemon.. Very happy with its price, speed and convenience.

 

[johndoe85]

I'm running something similar but with Raspberry Pi 4 and a case from geekworm with passive cooling on all the chips. NVMe drive with usb c to usb 3 cable. Good speeds.

Shame that the NIC and usb share speeds.

Though i'm running raspbian os on it. The light version.

 

[Tech9]

Get an Orange PI 3 LTS.. it comes with 2 USB 3.0 ports

It comes with single USB 3.0 port according to the manufacturer:

Orange Pi - Orangepi

 

[sfx2000]

Get an Orange PI 3 LTS.. it comes with 2 USB 3.0 ports

You get what you pay for with OrangePI's - just saying - as a hobby/dev board, they're ok, but there are much better solutions out there.

Hopefully you're not running their SD card image - there's a few security concerns there.

Armbian does have images, and they're "safe"... I'll be up front, I'm part of that community.

Orange Pi 3

PCIe port is not supported: Allwinner H6 has a quirky PCIe controller that doesn’t map the PCIe address space properly to CPU, and accessing the PCIe config space, IO space or memory space will need to be wrapped. As Linux doesn’t wrap PCIe memory space access, it’s not possible to do a proper...

www.armbian.com

That being said - doing a NAS on a community board - can be done - I've posted howto's here on SNB forum that setup and securely setup a singleboard machine for data services, web, vpn, etc...

Going with the mainline NAS providers - for most, this is a better path - they're optimized for that task, and more importantly, they have customer support.

 

[sfx2000]

Though i'm running raspbian os on it. The light version.

The 64-bit images on RPi4 are fine..

 

[johndoe85]

The 64-bit images on RPi4 are fine..

Yeah they are

The only thing im actually missing on the rpi 4 is WiFi 6, or atleast higher WiFi speeds than 100mbit.

The rest is very doable and solid.

 

[Turgut Kalfaoglu]

I'm running something similar but with Raspberry Pi 4 and a case from geekworm with passive cooling on all the chips. NVMe drive with usb c to usb 3 cable. Good speeds.

Shame that the NIC and usb share speeds.

Though i'm running raspbian os on it. The light version.

Mine is similar -- I added passive radiator on the chips too, to cool them a bit better.. it's rock solid for months so far.