I CREATED A PI NAS With RAID 5 Setup | Radxa Penta Sata Hat for SSD🔥

[@panconqueso9195]

You mentioned you were planning to replace the SSDs with mechanical drives, It would be cool if you made a guide on how to make it work with 3.5'' drives since all internet guides work with 2.5'' formats.

[@SmartHomeCircle]

There nothing much to do when replacing 2.5' to 3.5'. To make it work with 3.5' drives, you just need to use SATA extension cable. Here is an example cable on amazon. amzn.to/4fkokrq . Also you would need something like 12v 8A power supply as 3.5' drives take more energy.

[@johanneskingma]

12:28 you missed an important step here. One has to install the multiple device plugin from plugins.

[@SmartHomeCircle]

I did mention 5 seconds later that I will be making a separate detailed video on setting up RAID 5 with the plugin. I mentioned it in the video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnK5gJqegb54q5o

[@codmobile9727]

Small correction, the penta sata hat can support upto 5 any disk with sata port, not just SSD

[@SmartHomeCircle]

Ohh yes.. any sata drive.

[@An.Individual]

How can a 3.5" HDD be connected? It just would not fit.

[@LegoBobRoss10]

​@@An.IndividualYou can get extension cables and run it like that but it'll be VERY noisy.

[@tecbs]

Thank you for sharing greetings from Spain

[@johanneskingma]

why not use zfs?

[@SmartHomeCircle]

@@johanneskingma at the time, I was more familiar with the old RAID setup which came with OMV before, which is now provided via multiple devices plugin. I was supposed to explore zfs, but somehow didn't get time to get to it. I might make a video about it , so stay tuned. 🙂

[@venix20]

nice video and great idea bout the case ! just a tiny thing , you might want to make few lines for ventilation on the opposite side like the ones on the ssd mounts in size 5 of em should be fine just so the warm air can escape from the opposite side !

[@SmartHomeCircle]

@@venix20 yes. That can be done.. I dint do it to reduce the dust getting inside. However the panels are not tightly sealed.. so there is some space for air to leave..

[@williammantovani1913]

What's the plan if the microSD card gets damaged? How would you restore the RAID 5 setup with a new microSD card and a fresh OMV installation? I'm planning to build a NAS using a Raspberry Pi 5, but I haven't done a lab test to ensure it can be restored in this scenario. Congrats for the video, very cool.

[@SmartHomeCircle]

@@williammantovani1913 thats a good point. I am currently relying on taking a copy of the entire nas data from the sata drives to an external hd via usb. But i see there are plugins to take configuration backups of omv. I will try and see how this backup and restore works. It's a good idea for a video also.. 🙂

[@williammantovani1913]

@@SmartHomeCircle I was thinking about creating a very precise copy of the SD card using a tool like dd or Win32DiskImager. The real challenge, however, is keeping this backup up to date. My biggest nightmare would be losing the RAID configuration, rebuilding it from scratch would be almost impossible. I’m excited to share this brainstorming session for a new video and can’t wait to see it.

[@SmartHomeCircle]

I have already figured this out. There is a plugin in OMV to take the microsd card as a backup which can be flashed again to the microSD Card. I will be making a video about the whole backup scenario soon.

[@williammantovani1913]

​@@SmartHomeCircle Very cool, I just bought a RP5 with a Argon NEO 5 M.2 NVME PCIE case to test NVMe performance as well, I'm following you to check the backup scenario. Tks

[@johanneskingma]

I think more important how to setup a hot spare ssd. Considering the time it takes to create a RAID5 set, having a hot spare is no luxury

[@ChordsofEcstasy]

What is the read a write speed while using with omv on a 5G network? For my nas setup with raspi 5 and 1 tb normal hardisk on usb 3.0 on 5G im getting only close to 12 MBPS

[@phaijal]

What do you mean by '5G'? Is your Pi connected via wifi?

[@ChordsofEcstasy]

​@@phaijalit's the 5G wifi network

[@phaijal]

@@ChordsofEcstasy okay, that's expected. I mean for wifi, pi doesn't have very good wifi capabilities. I have pi4 and I use 1 gig eth cable.

[@SmartHomeCircle]

You can get speeds of about 100 MB/s if you are connected using a LAN cable. Wireless use would have limited speed.

[@juboraj666]

what is the dimention of acralic box?

[@SmartHomeCircle]

Its 10cm x 10cm x 15 cm height

[@PhoenixsRealm]

So first thank you for this tutorial! I have a few issues I hope you can help with - Since adding the SATA HAT the cpu fan kicks on at start, but won't try and kick on again to cool the CPU even when it passes 50C. - Download files from it are 120 mb/s uploading to it is 80 mb/s. Drives are 500 mb/s after testing same way u did, using 2.5Gb USB to ethernet adapter. Help is appreciated :)

[@SmartHomeCircle]

- I am not sure about the why the CPU fans dont kick off. Dont happen to me - Are you accessing the network with 2.5Gbit Router or USB on you computer? Both needs to use 2.5 Gbit connection.

[@johnrinehart]

How did you cut out the acrylic?

[@SmartHomeCircle]

I brought the acrylic box. Links are in the video description. Then I cut the square out using a blade and ruler. There are quite a lot of videos on KZbin around it..

[@hugoauthen]

Great video! Potential dumb question, what is the polarity of the dc adapter for the penta sata hat? I have the quad sata hat myself and I can't find anything about the polarity needed.

[@SmartHomeCircle]

I didn't understand what you meant by polarity. Do you mean the dc pin config?

[@hugoauthen]

@@SmartHomeCircle yes, like, minus or + in the center/middle

[@SmartHomeCircle]

@@hugoauthen positive is always inside, while negative is outside on the dc male connector. While for the female connector on the board, the pin in the middle is positive..

[@hugoauthen]

@@SmartHomeCircle thank you so much for clarifying!

[@fred3259]

Which is the power consumption idle, and in use?

[@SmartHomeCircle]

@@fred3259 At idle it consumes 9 W. I haven't seen it go above 11 Watts on use.

[@fred3259]

@@SmartHomeCircle Thanks!

[@rippedray]

how do you get that window to open to be able to do the ssh for windows?

[@SmartHomeCircle]

On windows, you might have to use putty to do an ssh.

[@johanneskingma]

make sure to enable ssh by doing sudo touch /boot/firmware/ssh

[@johanneskingma]

@@SmartHomeCircle Windows 11 now comes with OpenSSH so there is no need for putty or cygwin

[@timmark4190]

Thanks. Can you show how you can use Pi5 with camera module 3 for image recognition

[@SmartHomeCircle]

I might look into that for my next project.

[@cjlowe1650]

No active cooling?????

[@SmartHomeCircle]

@@cjlowe1650 you mean for the pi? I have used an active cooler. For the ssd its a constant 12v fan running at 5v.

[@PgOp-f6c]

Power supply is 5.5mm x 2.5mm port right, but you said 3.5mm , which one to go with????

[@SmartHomeCircle]

Sorry. My bad. Its a 5.5mm x 2.5mm port. Check the video description for it.

[@gerryrudolf2070]

I noted that said you are able to get higher speeds with a 2.5gbps network by using usb3 2.5gbps Ethernet adapter. I have tried this but could not get my pinas to connect with this connection. Can you give any advice how this can be achieved. I am using a UGREEN 2.5 adapter purchased from Amazon.

[@SmartHomeCircle]

@@gerryrudolf2070 you need to configure your Ethernet USB adapter in OMV. Check the network settings in OMV, you will have to add your Ethernet adapter and allow ipv4 and v6 on it..

[@gerryrudolf2070]

@@SmartHomeCircle thanks for the quick reply. It’s late here now so I will try tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

[@gerryrudolf2070]

I was able to get the 2.5gbps adapter working thanks to your advice.

[@SmartHomeCircle]

@@gerryrudolf2070 glad I could help 🙂

[@thelesls]

I would like to build this to be nas and media server. Will 8t be enough?

[@RefactorFirst]

Yes.. you can add more if you want.

[@PgOp-f6c]

You said dc power adapter, in the one you showed it’s actually written ac power adapter

[@SmartHomeCircle]

It's an ac to dc power adapter.

[@lorribot64]

not sure that fan will do much, you need to add some vents on the opposite panel to get so flow through, alt that will do is create a low pressure inside the box if it wasn't for leaky panels. likely the pi is running hotter that if there was no fan.

[@SmartHomeCircle]

The panels are not air tight. Also the fan runs at really slow speed just enough to pull little heat out. It's just enough ventilation.

[@joselaveda7449]

Do you use this NAS with your data, real world...?

[@SmartHomeCircle]

Yes.. I am editing my videos off it.

[@rv6amark]

You must have bought all of the remaining ribbon cables in the world!!! After waiting several weeks for this hat to be delivered, I opened the box and discovered that the ribbon cable was missing!!! Without the ribbon cable, this thing is a 50USD paper weight!!! I have contacted Radxa, but so far no reply. An extra cable is available for 2.50USD, but shipping will cost me and extra 12.50USD!!! So far, this thing is a big useless FLOP!

[@SmartHomeCircle]

Sorry to hear that 😕. I think it's an in complete product that is delivered to you. I had seen some reviews on Arace, they didn't get the cable, so I had brought an extra one. But turns out it was already there in my package. I can only say, try reaching radxa directly using the contact page. I hope they solve your issue. You can check on AliExpress if they are selling it separately so that you don't have to pay the hefty shipping cost. I hope you get to enjoy the hat soon 🙂

[@HimanshuThakur-co8yd]

R u not Indian