- Aug 21, 2002
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Long story short, my cloud backup provider decided they didn't want to honor the "Unlimited" subscription I started over 5 years ago and the pricing they offered me for a 5TB plan didn't matter since I have roughly 12TB of data that I protect.
So I found a pretty cheap NAS - TerraMaster F4-210... it's a 4-bay unit with a Cortex A53 processor and 1 GB of RAM. Basically, it can't saturate the 1 Gbps network connection unless I'm using JBOD or RAID0... I'd prefer to use RAID5... I tested it with RADI1 and it even slows down to about 600 Mbps.
I can see that it's using mdadm and LVM on the back end, and it's an OpenWRT-based linux distro with Linux kernel version 4.4.18.
I found a YouTube video where a guy opened up the 2-bay unit and found internal USB ports and an internal VGA port and was able to hook up a USB mouse, keyboard, and install Windows Server 2016. I'm guessing I could install most any version of Linux that I want on it - I'd lose the "pretty" GUI, but I'm perfectly competent in regard to configuring this myself and I've found that the GUI gets in the way a bit anyway.
What I'm not sure about is whether or not installing a modern Linux distro using a newer kernel with possibly better ARM support might allow me to saturate the 1 Gbps network interface while using RAID5.
Anybody have any experience running Linux on ARM (in particular a Cortex A53) that can comment on disk/network IO?
So I found a pretty cheap NAS - TerraMaster F4-210... it's a 4-bay unit with a Cortex A53 processor and 1 GB of RAM. Basically, it can't saturate the 1 Gbps network connection unless I'm using JBOD or RAID0... I'd prefer to use RAID5... I tested it with RADI1 and it even slows down to about 600 Mbps.
I can see that it's using mdadm and LVM on the back end, and it's an OpenWRT-based linux distro with Linux kernel version 4.4.18.
I found a YouTube video where a guy opened up the 2-bay unit and found internal USB ports and an internal VGA port and was able to hook up a USB mouse, keyboard, and install Windows Server 2016. I'm guessing I could install most any version of Linux that I want on it - I'd lose the "pretty" GUI, but I'm perfectly competent in regard to configuring this myself and I've found that the GUI gets in the way a bit anyway.
What I'm not sure about is whether or not installing a modern Linux distro using a newer kernel with possibly better ARM support might allow me to saturate the 1 Gbps network interface while using RAID5.
Anybody have any experience running Linux on ARM (in particular a Cortex A53) that can comment on disk/network IO?
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