creating a NAS-/SAMBA - whatever-server with Orange-PI

[dil_bert]

 

dear community,

i want to creating a NAS-/SAMBA - whatever-server with Orange-PI

does the  Orange Pi (Zero) NAS Expansion Board Interface Board  support all kind of Orange Pi - sbc

 

love to hear from you

[dil_bert]

dear friends
new to OPI

i own a Orange Pi
- pc
- prime

question;  does the  Orange Pi NAS Expansion card (also know as Orange-Pi-Zero-NAS-Expansion-board-Interface-board )
fit to these above mentioned boards too

love to hear from you

ps - what i mean is this: "Orange Pi Zero NAS Expansion Board Interface Board Support All Types Of Orange" -

 

[gizmola]

This board only support the OP Zero cards.

In general the quality of these addon boards is not very high, but this should not be a surprise given the low price.

As it only has a 10/100 port in it, you are going to be constrained to a max throughput of 10 Megabytes per second max.

While it supports SATA drives, it's through USB 2 connectors, so the connection to SATA drives is going to be throttled to USB 2.0 speeds.

In summary, it's an interesting toy, but you should not expect to build a NAS server off this that works for anything other than low performance file sharing.  There is also the problem of how you are going to power the thing and any external drives you might attach to it.  Maybe when they address some of these issues and come out with a version that has a Gigabit ethernet port, it might be worth considering, but a NAS that doesn't have redundancy of some sort (RAID 0+1, RAID-5 or RAID-6) isn't a great idea, considering the amount of time its going to take to load the NAS with files as well as backing it up all the time.