I built a $5,000 Raspberry Pi server (Radxa Taco NAS)

Yes raid shadow legends sponsorship would be awesome. I wonder if someone from LTT ever helped them out with those drives. I will try to contact them for you red shirt, Jeff.

this almost looks like a pi (case) i dreamed of. but it had a 3.5 at the bottom for stability, 4 2.5 slots in the back and a m2 for boot, in a compact case. maybe you can create my dream Jeff?

As someone who's dabbled with the negotiation issues of one end not matching the other, it usually boils down to auto-negotiation not being compatible between devices. A workaround is to try setting those to a different settting (I.E. - if it was 2.5 before, change it to auto on one side, test again, if it was auto, change it to 2.5, etc). Might get your speed back!

not to mention the risk to your data and perf when using QLC SSD drives...but a fun build nonetheless...

120MB/sec in Raid 5 over 2.5g ethernet, and no booting from M.2 are deal breakers for me. No point in even having the 2.5g nor the M.2 ports on the board. I know Samba is a resource hog and the Pi is not powerful, but if you didn't watch the whole review and pay close attention to the benchmarks you could totally expect this to do something it can't do.

I wish my Argon EON was using CM4 with PCIE interface but im happy with mine 18TB 🤗

Has this become vaporware? I put off getting a NAS when I saw this was supposed to be released soon, and didn't like the other options. I still don't like the other options. Not sure what to do.

and what to do if my RASPBERRY PI 4 does not see all disk memory?

I am very disappointed after 9 months from this video it is still not possible to buy the "Radxa Toco" server for Raspberry Pi CM4.
I thought that after this project, which you presented here, after 2 maximum 3 months, a ready-made product will be available for sale.

Very nice video. I HATE these thumbnails but it seems to be necessary these days :(

were did you buy SSD?

10g pushing file to 2.5g endpoint have transfer jitter...
The easiest way to solve that jitter is to manually set your mac's 10g interface down to 2.5g and everything in between to 2.5g.
Otherwise you might want to play with flow control settings; because 10g is overwhelming 2.5g, but the other way around is not.

does anyone know when will the radxa taco be released?

Hi Jeff, how much do you pay the electricity bill for all those stuff you have plugged in?

Honestly how breakable it looks seems like the biggest issue. Like if you accidentally slip or drop something on it you've now snapped the connectors on $5K worth of SSDs.

Just remember Harlan Ellison's words of wisdom. "If you're going to sell your soul, get a good price."

Hell even 1Gb ethernet is bottle necked by CPU or drive speed in many cases. Drive speed must be high enough at both ends and all that packet making isn't cheap, you need about 1000Mhz of dedicated CPU core per Gb of raw ethernet traffic, and for technical reasons it is not practical to offload packaging to a dedicated I/O chip(unlike [non-packet] firewire/1394 for counter example which used an I/O chip.) Mix in encryption or compression loads and yeah... is it better to use 500Mhz on compression and run 500Mb network or 1Gb on uncompressed data...
Huge packet sizes may reduce CPU load a bit but the entire network must support them and all nodes configured for the same huge size.. so only really good for a point to point trunk.
But I only notice 1Gb on the rare ocation when dealing abnormal files sizes to my NAS, for normal uses any delay is not perceptible.

what!!!!!

U have a lambda. Cost 150K

I was thinking about building something similar, but you have a nas on steroids.

With a two pound pure gold casing (with excellent heat transfer), it would be a $ 60000 Raspberry Pi.

You should definitely accept money from Raid Shadow legend so that people who don't know how to install an ad blocker pay for the rest of us

One day ... we will hear you swear Jeff :D ( Outtakes )

just a quick question, why are all the boards that you talk about impossible to get? are they just that new?

But would it be great for a regular 3.5 HDDs?

love your videos Jeff but this board is not available and info for it is very lacking (non existent)

This probably did not ever release? "out of stock" everywhere ... then again so are RPi

Doesn't look like the Taco is for sale yet?

Want to order a Taco, hope Radxa release it soon!

Mad

I have a matter of history and possibility for development that give good purpose to things like this.
Let us suppose that we take a 12TB Iron Wolf and attach it to the SATA connection on such a RPi compute node?
Let us also add a twin 2.5Gb/s LACP or single 5Gb/s? I believe the Compute Module can handle this.
Then we revive the infamous CMU's Andrew File System (AFS). One of these servers with SSD's handles the meta-data and each RPi + SATA drive + LACP ethernet becomes one drive node each in a scalable network. The network then is the storage area network (SAN), and its bandwidth and latency is distributed over the network.
I am just saying this would make for an interesting storage and compute capacity network. I do have some books and notes on the subject that might prove handy in determining optimal arrangement for these kinds of devices.
Just saying. Oh, you have one of those. So, I suspect two Iron Wolfs and M2 would supply the cache and storage need as a AFS node amongst many. A 100Gb/s back plane would be enough to distribute this setup to for hard core compute modules and say a number of Mac mini M1s with twin 10Gb/s ethernet. Wow.
Partnership is golden.

This is super cool. I'd love to have a small All-In-One Twister OS Desktop & NAS setup. Five 2TB SSD's in RAID 5 (or 6). This is the direction I'd like to head in. Thanks!!

lol @ "fat juicy raid shadow legends sponsorship"

OK that is a ridiculous thumbnail…

Does software RAID leverage the GPU on the Pi for it's parity calculations?

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link of products?

You are seriously crazy! I love it. Just don't go to S****w L******s. (But then I'd have gone for RAID Z2... :) )

I just got the notification 6 days later haha

I know it sound really dumb. I think you should take one of those Raid sponsorships, build a 40 raspberry pi mining rig and make custom ingenered hitsinks and a bunch of custom cnced parts.

I must say this is the most entertaining channel I follow. Even if the subject material isn't very interesting, Jeff makes it fun.

I have NO NETWORK KNOWLEDGE AS YOU CAN TELL.

JEFF, IHAVE A NETWORK SWITCH QUESTION. IM TRYING TO SAVE ON RUNNING MANY WIRES THROUGH HOUSE. 1GB THROUGHPUT IS FINE.
I HAVE NETGEAR 8PORT - 1GB PORTS + 2 10GB PORTS SWITCH. CAN I RUN QTY 1 10GB ETHERNET WIRE TO LIVING ROOM AND CONNECT TO A NETGEAR 8PORT - 1GB ETHERNET SWITCH? Will that single 10GB wire handle 4 connected devices throughput from living room to router without bottleneck? Or each device at 1GB needs it’s own line back to host switch/router?

You‘re making great videos! But do you really think making a silly face on the yt-title leads to more clicks? I don’t think so.

Those bloopers :D

Sir Jeff, I know you like to CHALLENGE RASPBERRY PI4 ALWAYS!
I NEED 1 SOLUTION. LION BATTERY PACK AND POWER REGULATOR TO run R PI4 8GB for “”12”” hours (including a good laptop type screen.
Battery pack removable so I can SWAP in a 2nd 12hr battery pack.
IF not you, who among your Tech Circle would be interested to build this (with detailed step building, EACH component listed with website added in details. That way anyone can source video and go shop by source websites to buy exact same components to replicate.

I find myself REMOTE and need 12hr power source via LION battery pack. Pi 4 -8GB is heavily used.
(Reaching out to remote areas to teach very basic introduction to Pi and the OS to children to stimulate their interest and become more in life.

Currently NO PROGRAMS FOR REMOTE CHILDREN.