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Build a Raspberry Pi NAS with 4 Hard Drives and RAID

Written By Gary Explains on Thursday, Aug 15, 2019 | 12:37 PM

 
Get 96% off our Raspberry Pi Mastery Course Bundle: https://andauth.co/pideal The Raspberry Pi 4 has great I/O performance with USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. That makes it ideal for a Do-It-Yourself NAS (Network Attached Storage). If you connect 1, 2 or even 4 hard drives, what kind of read/write performance will you get? What levels of RAID should you use? Let's find out. If also need a step by step guide to building a NAS with a Raspberry Pi, then I have a video about that as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fIeiZx4voU RAID Levels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbXPFB1kKuA Megabits per second (Mb/s) vs Megabytes per second (MB/s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96iJpVM8ZA Introduction to Android app development: https://www.dgitacademy.com Let Me Explain T-shirt: https://teespring.com/gary-explains-let-me-explain-2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/garyexplains Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garyexplains/ #garyexplains Affiliate Disclosure: When you buy through links in our description Gary Explains may earn an affiliate commission.