It seems weirdly difficult to find a good solution to attach HDDs to my pi. Best case would be for me a enclosure with small power supply, space for my pi, and at least 2 bays for HDDs, rather 4. All that for under 100€ of cause :D

I could not really find cheap hhd enclosures that connect via usb. Any recommendations? I don’t really want to use HDD toasters, they feel not permanent enough for a Nas. I could also not find sata to usb hats for the pi that are available right now

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It seems weirdly difficult to find a good solution to attach HDDs to my pi.

    Being a nas is not at all what a pi is made for. So it’s not surprising at all.

    • JohnnyWanker@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The Raspberry Pi would be a great low power device to have always on with some storage attached to backup to, store family photos, etc.

      So not a high performance NAS, but good enough for this use case.

        • Turun@feddit.deEnglish
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          10 months ago

          It entirely depends on what you want to do with it. So calling it underpowered is not a statement that can be made in general.

          • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            10 months ago

            Disk I/O always been the weak point of RPi, with slow USB being the only way to attach drives, and the USB port sharing the same bus as the network controller. A requirement for a frequently used Network-Attached Storage is… well… decently fast network and storage access. The Pi will not cut it for this specific task (moving external USB drives around your house would be faster and more practical).