Ultimate Raspberry Pi 5 72TB Server - Geekworm X1009 SATA Shield | Low Power Storj Node

[Music] hello guys welcome back to the channel um some of you might know or remember that I made a Rasberry Pi 5 storage guide uh on this little thing right here well this is still running it's down for now but that's because I want to upgrade it already I found a really cool device that will let me attach even more uh hard Diss and that way I can expand my node already because this little thing is a beast so I'll show you what I bought and where you can get it and I'll show you exactly the upgrade path that I'm going to go with connecting more drive to the Rasberry Pi this is quite the build video so if you're into this kind of thing stay tuned all right so what exactly did I buy well I bought a hat for the Raspberry Pi and it's quite a special one because look at this this is a five s hat that uses PCI uh the pcie lane on the um rest pie now it is made that you can connect it to power but I'll be using this power supply right here to power the drives so I'm going to be connecting five uh 12 TB discs through the uh set ports and then I'm going to connect one of the 12 TB discs through the USB 3 and the OS drive through the other USB 3 that way I'll be able to have six hard drives all running St just on this little resper pie right here and this is going to be quite the build so please keep watching if you really enjoy this um I have this hard drive cage right here it's an upgrade cage from Corsair they're quite cheap um this will be able to house all the drives and then I have some USB uh 3.02 SATA converter so this will go into the hard drive and it requires external power as you can see right here but this power is just 12 volts so what I've gone ahead and done is I've taken a SATA connector and I have soldered uh the um Power uh connectors on right here that means I can power the uh adapters these two from the uh Power Supply right there so all in all this is going to be a build where the only two wires that is connected to Mains is the uh Raspberry Pi USBC and then the power supply for powering all of the hard drives um I went ahead and bought a high amperage USBC connector for the Rasberry Pi as well um I also got this fancy little switch right here that will keep the uh power supply running at all times it was really cheap and easy to use so that's fine so I'm going to go ahead and assemble it now um the drives that we are going to be looking at is the 12 TB C exus Enterprise drives these ones right here I do have another five of these ready to go so I'm just going to go ahead and assemble the tower and get the drive sitting in there all right so I went right ahead and got all of the uh 12 TB discs we got five right here and we got run right here this is also going to come out of this enclosure case this is not a case but this strap thing um this will give us six * 12 terab so 72 tab that's quite a lot of stuff storage for a Raspberry Pi 5 I think that's a great project and I think we should put it together all right so all six hard drives now have their little cage on and I'm going to be putting it into the mount here it has some screws that has been screwed in um this will help keep the uh mounting uh itself uh together um what I'll go ahead and do is put them in and then I will put the little uh heat sink on the uh SATA controller right here so let's do that all right so I'm going to go ahead and stick the little heat sink on the chip that is right here I believe that is the correct placement uh what I'm then going to do is go ahead and put in the standoffs and mounted on the Raspberry p now one thing that I noticed is that they did include two uh PCI ribbons which is really nice of them if you case you break one but that basically just goes into the PCI uh slot right here and then into the little connector that is right here so I'm going to go ahead and do that and see you in a bit all right so I did go ahead and screw in the standoffs and mount the SATA hat as you can see it does Connect into the gpio pins right here and then it has the uh PCI Express ribbon right here um one thing that's cool is that you can still have your fan uh underneath right on the CPU of the Rasberry Pi um I was saying earlier that it does support a power input of 12 volts and then you have actually a power connector right here with Seda that you can connect to it but it did say on the website that it was a little bit um uh you couldn't use it with all five uh of 3.5 in hard disk because of the power draw so I'm just going to ditch this entirely and power it off purely of my H6 power supply all right so as you can see all the hard drives are in the hard drive cage right here I did go ahead and add this huge fan that I have it's a Cooler Master fan um and I think it fits quite perfectly with the size uh I zip tied it on um just to make sure that it's uh sitting quite perfectly of I'm of course going to cut the SI ties right here but it does blow air right through the hard Diss and I can actually feel air coming out from the other side right here so this is going to help cooling the uh hard drives immensely it's going to I think it's going to do a great job um it is just a Molex to uh pvm or it's not pvm but it uses the pvm connector kind of fan connector thing so that's going to work perfectly fine um so yeah now cooling is done let's move on all right so it's definitely coming together now I did go ahead and add a piece of cardboard underne the RAS pie here just to prevent any shorts because this is metal right here I also added a zp tie right above the Hat uh just to make sure that the Rasberry Pi sits SN and then I went ahead and routed the USB cable for the top hard drive and put it into the USB 3.0 so you can see it sits d right here this is perfect and all the SATA cables are plugged into the uh hard diss as you can see down there so what I'm going to go ahead and do now is plug all of the seta connectors into this hat right here and I'll I'll see you in a bit all right so this monstrosity build is nearing complete we have put up all of the seta cables all of the Power connectors I did go ahead and put in a SATA splitter just to power the um the uh 12vt to the USB hub for these two I went ahead and plugged them in so we got OS drive we got six hard drives wired up I did put a fan on top of the hat I don't know how hot it gets but I believe with this many connections it could be trying to push through quite a lot of data so I did put it on there uh we do have access to the um HDMI and the USB and I did go ahead and wire up the um power button and zip tide in place that way I can just switch it on now I have not switched on the system yet so I'm going to go ahead and power everything um the Rasberry pie and the uh power supply is going to get some juice and we're going to fire it up together and see if anything pops up on the screen and if everything is working as it should so stay tuned for that all right so I've put in the HDMI cable the USBC for the pi I've put in the keyboard and mouse and I've put this on the on position I've put Power on both of these and when I press here everything should turn on simultaneously so we'll have a look and see if anything pops on on the screen I have not tested this myself so this is the moment let's give it a try okay we got fans and we got some spinning hard drives you might be able to hear we have light in the Hat okay and we have a video output please boot okay we are in emergency mode I have no idea why I'm going to go ahead and just look into it and I'll see you in a bit all right so I went ahead and after the pie wooden boot I went ahead and did some Googling and apparently because I changed USB controller one of the mounted drives in fstep was causing trouble so what I did was I loaded up the boot Drive in Ubuntu um on a PC and then I went into fstep and uncommitted a line of the story note that was causing the res P to not boot and just like that the p is now booted and I will show you and just like that the pie has now booted as you can see we are inside of the desktop here uh what I'm going to go ahead and do now is connect it to Wi-Fi that way we can uh remote into it and see if all the drives have popped up all right so I thought to myself that before I go ahead and connect it to Wi-Fi and plug in the uh HDMI dummy I wanted to check if all the drive were detected and as you can see right here they are all here all drives including the boot Drive of course because we booted from it um and the original Drive is on the SDF um path which makes sense because that was probably part of the reason why I couldn't boot because I thought it was on the sdb originally I believe so I think I can go ahead and boot the pie down get it uh hooked up to the Internet and I can remote into it in a bit all right so as you might see here I have remoted into the um Rasberry Pi with VNC viewer um what you see here is all of the drives and I can see their smart data and I'm currently uh making sure that they are all uh partitioned and mounted uh as you can see and then I'm going to go ahead and install sto on each drive and I will see you right after that all right so all the drives have now been mounted as you can see right here um you can see that sdf1 is the one that sty has been running on for some time since I made the first video and all the others are now ready to take some space so this is all great and I'm ready to install the nodes all right so after having connected everything getting the pie up and running I could confirm that all the drives were detected by the SATA hat um I am able to access them I'm able to read and write from them the say the had so far has been looking great running great um if anyone is interested I can leave a link in the description but just comment if you want the link for it it's quite expensive I believe it's $100 um but definitely a cool way to get a lot of drives on a raspber buy uh I will recommend though if you're going to power five drives get like a H6 power supply like I did um but yeah the product is really good all right so as you might be able to see here um the original Storage Note is running it as it always has been it's back up we can see that we have definitely been getting some data on this dis but we can also check the other nodes that I just installed and they are also running right now as you can see right here um I'm going to just go ahead and show you that they're all uh doing stuff uh getting data um keep in mind that these notes are on the same dashboard this means that they are sharing data currently but I believe that over time this will actually be fine because it will overall give less strain on the Raspberry Pi but also with the test data and the new uh TTL algorithm data thing a lot of data will flow through so I think that it's not so bad I think that they'll get plenty of data but we'll have to see I'll definitely keep you guys updated um but yes we now have six storage nodes running on a rasper pi5 with located uh just about uh 64 terab in total um so this is all great um I also updated my script uh my bandwidth script I have a video for that if you guys want to see it currently just shows two notes online but I think I'll just give that a couple hours uh because I think this one fetches some data from the satellite so I'll just have to see um how that goes It also says space available is only 21 but this should also update it does register all six notes so I believe the script will update so overall the gek worm SATA had has been working pretty great I think that uh so far so good um maybe I will do a speed test on the uh discs themselves if that is something you guys want to see uh please feel free to uh let me know down the comments I could do a video where I speed test all of the drives at the same time using the um the SATA hat uh but if that is all then thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed the video and bye

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Keywords: Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi, Budget, Tech, Raspberry Pi Projects, SSD, DIY, Hard Drive, NAS, Network Attached Storage, Storage, Technology, Server, Data, Raspberry Pi Setup, Raspberry Pi Server, Raspberry Pi Cluster, Massive Storage, Computing, 72TB, Storj, Storagenode, Storj operator, nas

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Length: 12min 40sec (760 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 04 2024