Following the Supermicrology, I have also spend some time building a Raspberry Pi-nology.
A small NAS with room for 2.5 inch drives..
Starting with a Raspberry Pi 4, the first thing was getting the USB to sata to work.
This involved some changes to the USB driver settings, because the initial USB 3 speed was around 40 KB..
The following post on Raspberry forum helped me with that:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=245931
The components of the NAS are as follows:
- Raspberry Pi 4
- 2 Bay Supermicro HDD caddy
- 2 SATA to USB 3.0 cables
- POE hat RPI
- 3D printed mount for Sata cables
- 3D printer casing
- Piece of opal plastic to put on top of the case
After two days of printing, and a quick assembly, this is the outcome:
The intended use case is to be working as a travel lab, with a second USB wifi allowing it to logon to the hotel Wifi on the go, sharing the connection with laptop, Tablet, Phone, providing instant VPN access to home.
Further to that, ideally, it should allow to store some media to play some movies on the road.
But that’s a next step, on the software side.
