I've been running my Pi 5 with a 4-drive RAIDZ1 array for over a year now (it's configured as part of my arm-nas project).
It's been quite stable, and I have a USB 2.5 Gbps NIC attached that gives me 180-200 MB/sec for any large file copies. I replicate a larger NAS to the Pi NAS using ZFS, it's nice and handy.
I haven't used it as a primary NAS, but there's no reason I couldn't. It is generally fast, even with small files, but the latency is a little worse than my big beefy NAS server. That's fine though. The big server is using 100W at idle. The Pi uses like 8W idle with four SSDs!
I wrote more about my particular Pi 5 setup on my blog, as well: Radxa Penta SATA HAT with Pi 5 — that's the same setup I have running to this day!
It's been quite stable, and I have a USB 2.5 Gbps NIC attached that gives me 180-200 MB/sec for any large file copies. I replicate a larger NAS to the Pi NAS using ZFS, it's nice and handy.
I haven't used it as a primary NAS, but there's no reason I couldn't. It is generally fast, even with small files, but the latency is a little worse than my big beefy NAS server. That's fine though. The big server is using 100W at idle. The Pi uses like 8W idle with four SSDs!
I wrote more about my particular Pi 5 setup on my blog, as well: Radxa Penta SATA HAT with Pi 5 — that's the same setup I have running to this day!
Statistics: Posted by geerlingguy — Thu May 29, 2025 9:32 pm