Jeff Geerling | I built a $5,000 Raspberry Pi server (Radxa Taco NAS) @JeffGeerling | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 14 minutes ago.
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Radxa's Taco, along with a boatload of SSDs, is the new gold standard Raspberry Pi-based NAS.

But my 48TB SSD NAS build is probably a dumb idea. Why? Well, watch the video and find out!

Mentioned in this video:

- Radxa Taco: wiki.radxa.com/Taco
- Blog post on mdadm RAID setup: jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/htgwa-create-raid-array-linux-mdadm
- Blog post on ZFS on the Pi: jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/htgwa-create-zfs-raidz1-zpool-on-raspberry-pi
- 96W Power supply: amzn.to/3Fnt9xd
- Noctua 5V PWM USB fan: amzn.to/3FntcZV
- Samsung 870 QVO 8TB SSD: amzn.to/3qJ2syP
- Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB NVMe SSD: amzn.to/3Fr3m7c

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Contents:

00:00 - Absolutely ridiculous
00:31 - Thank the sponsor!
01:01 - Should I build it?
02:12 - Radxa's Taco
03:13 - NAS Assembly
04:22 - 96W Power-up
05:05 - Pi OS driver support
06:07 - 2.5 Gbps Networking
07:53 - Benchmarks: RAID and ZFS
10:02 - Benchmarks: SMB and NFS
11:23 - Energy use
11:47 - My Thoughts, Availability, Pricing
12:25 - Outtro and Outtakes