by Jonathan Updated Feb 26, 2021 Published Feb 26, 2021 Raspberry Pi News
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Finally, with a bit of help from some Broadcom engineers, I got full hardware RAID working on a Raspberry Pi. And I actually used SAS drives this time. Special thanks to Broadcom for sending me a controller card and storage backplane to test on the Pi, and for their...
by Jonathan Updated Dec 4, 2020 Published Dec 4, 2020 Raspberry Pi News
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I built the fastest (to my knowledge) native SATA RAID array on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, and set it up as a NAS server, testing out hard drives and SSDs, and different RAID setups like RAID 0, 1, and 10. I discuss the advantages of different RAID levels, how...
