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Radxa’s Taco, along with a boatload of SSDs, is the new gold standard Raspberry Pi-based NAS.

But my 48TB SSD NAS build is probably a dumb idea. Why? Well, watch the video and find out!

Mentioned in this video:

– Radxa Taco: https://wiki.radxa.com/Taco
– Blog post on mdadm RAID setup: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/htgwa-create-raid-array-linux-mdadm
– Blog post on ZFS on the Pi: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/htgwa-create-zfs-raidz1-zpool-on-raspberry-pi
– 96W Power supply: https://amzn.to/3Fnt9xd
– Noctua 5V PWM USB fan: https://amzn.to/3FntcZV
– Samsung 870 QVO 8TB SSD: https://amzn.to/3qJ2syP
– Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB NVMe SSD: https://amzn.to/3Fr3m7c

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Contents:

00:00 – Absolutely ridiculous
00:31 – Thank the sponsor!
01:01 – Should I build it?
02:12 – Radxa’s Taco
03:13 – NAS Assembly
04:22 – 96W Power-up
05:05 – Pi OS driver support
06:07 – 2.5 Gbps Networking
07:53 – Benchmarks: RAID and ZFS
10:02 – Benchmarks: SMB and NFS
11:23 – Energy use
11:47 – My Thoughts, Availability, Pricing
12:25 – Outtro and Outtakes

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