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

so previously we had seen how we can create a pine ass using a Raspberry Pi 5 and an external drive today we will be making use of this hat from ratza that supports connecting five drives to a raspberry pi5 so with this let's get started so we have all the components that we need we have first of all is the Raspberry Pi 5 now this is the 4GB Ram version then we have the Hat here so this is the penta sat hat and this supports four SSD drives on this as well as it supports one more Drive via this connector here so let's look at the other components along with this I have this four 1tb drives and these are from crucial so I have bought four of these here so we have like in total 4 TB here along with this we have this active cooler and then we have this connector cables with us now using this connector cables we will be connecting this board to this Raspberry Pi 5 so before that let's actually open this board so now you get all the components in this neat case here and inside this first of all you have this connector cables I bought extra one of these here just for backup sake and I have these two connector cables in the box now this is the connector cable that I was talking about with which you can connect the fifth drive to the board along with this we have these nuts and bolts here so using these studs we can mount this on the Raspberry Pi 5 and then finally we have the board here along with the board you have these support panels so using these support panels you can have the drives in a steady position let's look at the board itself so this is how the board looks like it has four slots for four drives here as well as it has this extra Port through which you can connect a fif drive now to power this board you can power it using this 12 Vol DC adapter pin as well as you can power it via the Molex connector using this now along with this let's look at the other things so here we have another 10 pin connector Now using this you can connect another o board which is a board with fan and an O display let's look at the board underneath here so here we have is a connector for the fan and here we have the connector to connect this board to the raspberry pipe so now let's look look at how we can connect this board first of all so we have the brand new Raspberry Pi 5 which is the 4GB variant right now so let me take this board out now so we have the Raspberry Pi 5 here now let's connect the active cooler to it so right now I've connected the active cooler to the Raspberry Pi 5 now let's actually connect this board here so let me connect this and as you can see right now this board does not fit in here because because this 12v DC pin is kind of touching the active cooler here so let me actually take out three of these from here so that this one fits in okay so right now I have connected the active cooler back again and I have removed three parts from here such that this hat can then properly fit in so now before I fit in this hat what I'm going to do is let's open this FPC cable pouch right now we have two of these cables and we are going to make use of one of these so I'm going to keep this one aside and then what you have to do is make sure when you have the board facing this way you have this thing printed on the FPC cable here so this is the way that you need to connect this to the board and also keep this metal ring that you have here on top of the FPC cable so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to push this thing inside and this fits right in so pretty straightforward just make sure that you have the FPC Cable in this direction and you have the board upside down now I'm going to flip this and I'm going to put this holder in place so now this is in place right now this is really thin it's it's like paper like thin like meaning I'm not sure like if if you bend it too much it could even crack and break so it's really thin and really paper like FPC cable so now what we're going to do is we are going to now put this with a Raspberry Pi so this is how the the hat is going to fit in so this is how this cable has to fit in here so let me do that right now okay really delicate stuff so this thing is right now fit inside the FPC connector here and this is how we have the Hat connected to the Raspberry Pi 5 now before we actually connect this or attach this to the Raspberry Pi 5 what we need to do is we are going to put those metal studs here so these metal studs that we have that I provided I'm going to put these metal studs here such that it holds the board in place now after a good painful amount of time I figured out that it would have been nice if I had to connect these struts before I connected the FPC cable this is what happens when you don't plan things and you just do it and this is what I figured out so in case if you're doing this make sure that you put these studs first and then connect the FPC cable so anyways right now what we are going to do is we are going to now connect this board so so I'm going to put this board this way and then I'm going to now fit it in this gpio pens here so this is how it looks like from here on top of the USB ports here then this is how it looks like from this side this is how it looks like from the back and this is how it looks like from the GP pin s so now what I'm going to do is finally I'm going to put in these small nuts here so these are fitted right now and the board is sitting nicely on the Raspberry Pi 5 right now and there we have this now what we are going to do is we are going to put in our ssds on top of this so let me open these ssds right now and now we are going to now assemble this using these two plates that we have so first of all what I'm going to do is I'm going to peel off the coating on top of this so we have these two plates with us right let's open the ssds now so now what we need to do is we need to attach all of these drives using this acrylic plates so let me do that right now so right now I have connected all the four Drives together now this is pretty much properly attached to these acrylic plates and now what we're going to do is we're going to connect this to the hat right now so let me bring the Hat in here so this is the small connector and this is the larger one so I'm going to flip this this way so I had to give it a little bit of push for all the drives to go in and now all the drives are sitting pretty well inside this so we have our Nas right now ready so now this is complete from the hardware point of view right so but we still have to look from the software point of view so for this what I have here is a Micro SD card and on this micro SD card we are going to have a Raspberry Pi OS light because using Raspberry Pi OS light you can install open media volt so let's do that now using the raspberry pi imager we will first select the device then we are going to select Raspberry Pi OS light because omv can only be installed on Rasberry Pi OS light and then finally we're going to select the SD card now here in the settings what we are going to do is we going to set the host name as well as the username and password to access the pie and we are going to make sure that we are going to enable SSH access to this P so first thing what we're going to do is we are going to put in this micro SD card now next what we're going to do is we're going to power it with this DC adapter so now this is a 12v 7.5 aamp DC adapter which has this 3.5 mm pin through which we are going to power this board here now you don't need a 7.5 aamp if you're just going to use ssds now I a 7.5 amp because most probably I will change this from ssds to hdds in the future so if you're using just ssds like four or five ssds then you can buy adapters which could be around 5 amp or even 6 amp I think that's more than enough for the ssds but if you are planning to go for agds get something which is like 7.5 or 8 Amp with 12 volts of input before we actually connect this DC adapter what we are going to do is we need to get the maximum amount of data from this right so we are going to actually connect a ethernet cable so I have this ethernet cable here and firstly I'm going to connect this Ethernet cable so now with the Lan cable and all connected let's power up this device by connecting the DC pin so now let me connect this here and now during the first boot it's going to reboot like twice because it's doing the internal settings for your Wi-Fi for your ethernet as well as as setting up the SSH part so it will now reboot twice so let it finish doing this thing so now with this the Raspberry Pi has now booted up let's try doing an SSH so right now we are already into the Raspberry Pi now let's check if these four ssds are detected so let me type and if you see the four ssds have not been detected so for this what we need to do is we need to do some configuration change so let me open open up boot firmware config.txt and here I'll be putting this configuration so first parm that I'm going to put is DT param PCI Express 1 and I'll be putting the Gen 3 configuration so now with this I'm going to save this and I'm going to reboot the Raspberry p and if you see right now we have some LEDs been Glu so now these four LEDs that are there it is actually telling that the drives have been detected right right now now let's wait for this thing to fully boot up so now the Raspberry p has fully boot up let's actually check if the discs are found and if you see right now we see all these four drives here so these are the four drives that are now detected by this now just to see what speeds we are getting I'm going to install this small utility called as HD param and using this we will check the speeds what we are getting with these drives so I'll just do a simple test with one of them so using this command that is HD param minus t we're going to check what read speeds we are getting with this SSD so I'm just testing it for one of them so let me enter this and see so I'm getting around 540 mb per second so that's a good amount of speed for ssds this is not an nvme wherein you would have got like somewhere around 800 but this is like 540 which is good for an SSD right now so next what we're going to do is we are going to install opal media volt now for this I have this article here now this is the article that I have and I already have a video for this wherein I created the Nash Drive using an external hard drive so if you want you can check out this entire video I will link it into the description below as well as a link to this article I will put it into the description below so you I have given step by-step guide on how you can do this so what I'll be doing right now is I will be installing this open media World by just copying this command and I will be running this here so I don't want any kind of network configurations to change and this will install open media Vol for me now this takes a little bit of time like it may take around 5 to 10 minutes to do the entire installation and after that we will be able to access the open media World U so with this open media world is right now installed now before we terminate from this SSH session what we're going to do is we're going to access the UI and I'm going to put in the default username and password that is admin and the password is open media Vol so let me enter this and there we have it we have open media Vol set up with us so now what we're going to do is we're going to see if our discs are detected here so let's go to the storage section here and I'm going to click on Diss and if you see all the four drives are detected next I go ahead and set up raid five using the multiple device plugin now I could have included that in this video but the video length would become really long so I'll be publishing that video separately later on this week so make sure to hit that subscribe button to see the full video once it is out now let's go ahead and put this Hardware inside a case that I made so here we have all the components that we require to create a case to fit in our Raspberry Pi 5 the ratza hat and the ssds inside the case so what I have bought here are these acrylic plates of a display case so I found this display case on AliExpress with the dimensions of 10 cm by 10 cm with 15 cm in height now you can use this case to have any kind of decorative article that you want to display but in this case we will be making use for creating a case for a Raspberry Pi so now along with this case what we have here is this 12vt DC fan so this is an 80 mm by 80mm fan with 10 mm in width so we will be powering this 12vt fan using the pins from this connector so now this connector is actually meant for the ratar top hat and this Top Hat has this OLED display along with a fan but I saw the pinouts of this connector and we will be powering this fan that is the 12vt fan using 5V input form here now I'm doing this because I don't want this fan to run at full speeds and make a lot of noise rather I just want it to have like an enough air flow such that it pulls in the hot air from here and pushes it out I don't want it to run at full speed but at a very slow pace so that's why I'm powering this 12vt fan using the 5V output from here so now let's see what we have here so let me move this behind a bit and let me show you what I've done with the display case so in this display case you get a series of plates here which you have to assemble together as a box so what I have done here I have cut out one of of these plates for this fan here on top as well as all the connectors that we have here below so the idea is that all the connectors fit in here and this slot that I've kept here is for the power cord so I'll be passing the power cord through this and this section will allow me to access the various ports on the raspberry pi5 so right now I have done all these cutouts but I have not peeled out the protective film on this so I'll be doing this for for the first time right now so I hope I've done the cutouts properly so let's do this okay so it looks like the cutouts that I had done they look pretty good uh meaning I'm not a professional cutter I didn't kind of cut it using some kind of a laser or something but I saw some videos on YouTube on how you can cut these acrylic plates and I tried doing those so it's not the perfect cuts that I have but they are pretty good for the look right now so what we are going to do now is I'm going to peel off the remaining ones here so I have pulled out all the protective films that was there and also I had made holes for this plate such that I can mount this Raspberry Pi on top of it so this was done before I peeled out the protective case so first what we are going to do is we are going to mount this on top so I'm going to put in the screws here now I have put in all the screws here and I'm going to tighten the screws after putting this plate so we will be putting this plate here this way wherein these ports come out properly from here but before that I need to fix the fan that we have so let me fix in this fan here such that we can have this in place so now I have hot glued the fan onto this acrylic plate and this is how the fan looks like right now so what we're going to do is we are going to actually now Mount this panel here now before mounting this what I need to do is I need to pass in the power cord from here because there's a small gap for the power cord and also connect these wires to this connector over here now the pin configuration of this connector is provided on the radza website so I'll be connecting pin number four for 5V output and pin number nine for ground so now let's actually pass in the power cord through this right now so right now I have this power cord and I'm going to pass this through this and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to connect these wires here before I tighten the screws I need to put this panel inside this slot here so this cutout that I made now I have accessible to all the ports of the Raspberry Pi 5 and now I can tighten the screws below so with this I have tightened all the screws that we need so now what I'm going to do is I have this fan here I have these two panels which are there now I'm going to mount the remaining panels that we need okay so I have now mounted all the panels in this and to fasten these panels together they have provided these rubber bands here so these are clear rubber bands I'm going to open them and I'm going to use them right now so this is finally how the case looks like so we have the Raspberry Pi as well as the Hat inside and you will see some really good LEDs glowing over here now if I ever want to open this case what I can do is I can pull out these bands from here and then I can open this panel so with this I can access the internals of the case and I can access now the entire Raspberry Pi along with this so this is how the case looks like so if I turn it so this is how it looks like from the sides from the back and from this side also so now what we're going to do is we are going to put in the panel back again and then close this with this rubber band and then what we are going to do is let's power up this device now let's go ahead and Power on this device and as you can see the fan has now turned on this means that the Raspberry p has come on and we should soon see the LEDs on the rad side hat come on so there we have it we have all the four LEDs on the ratza hat on this means all the SATA drives have been detected and now we can start using this Nash device now after using this device with a raid 5 setup on a gigabit Network which most of you might have I was able to get around 110 mbes per second now if you have a 2.5 GB Network then you can make use of a 2.5 GB USB to ethernet adapter and get speeds of around 200 mb per second now let's look at the cost that was involved the Raspberry Pi 5 the 4GB variant cost around €63 the active cooler cost around 8.5 then the razza Hat including shipping cost around €55 the micro SD card cost around €10 the power adapter cost around €20 and the case itself cost around €8 so this brought the total cost to around €1 165 for the entire Nas solution now let's go ahead and compare this with an offthe self solution like from sinology nas now the basic 2bay version would cost around €15 and even after this you just get 1 GB of RAM 1.7 GHz quad core processor and it would only support up to two drives now in our case we have like 2.5 GHz quad core with 4GB of RAM and we can support up to five Drive obviously with fifth Drive connected via the esart cable now in terms of cost and specs we have a significant difference here now let's look at some of the downsides that are involved here now using omv since it's an open- Source version you will have to take care about the updates and doing all these configuration may not be beginner friendly now the other disadvantage at least for me was that when I turned off the Raspberry Pi 5 the lights on the hat remained on now this can be a little bit annoying that the Nas is off and the lights are still on on now let's talk in terms of usage now I'm currently using this as my video editing Nas wherein I'm editing videos off this Nas using a gigabit Network so I'm comfortably able to edit my videos on this and I don't need like a 2.5 gabit nit next this Nas itself looks really nice and it hardly makes any noise so the fans are pretty quiet because I use a 12vt fan on the 5V input and it's really silent now in my next video I'll be showing you how you can set up rate 5 using multiple device plug-in and ZFS so make sure to hit that subscribe button to see the full video once it is out now I keep on making things smart at home so if you want to support this channel you can buy me a coffee or you can support me via patreon with the links in the the description below now you can also join this channel as a member or you can give me one of those super thanks now if you like this 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Channel: Smart Home Circle

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Keywords: raspberry pi, nas, network attached storage, storage, open media vault, omv, pi nas, radxa penta sata hat, pi nas raid, pi nas vs synology, pi nas case, omv raspberry pi, omv nas, omv 7, raspberry pi projects, iot devices, smart home technology, raspberry nas, nas server, raspberry pi nas, nas with pi, raspberry pi server, raspberry pi network attached storage, raspberry pi nas server, SATA Hat, Penta SATA, Penta SATA Hat, Raspberry Pi 5, Pi 5, raspberry pi case

Id: QqSkYuV3b7A

Length: 22min 37sec (1357 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 06 2024