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Radxa's Penta SATA HAT fits nicely atop the Raspberry Pi 5. Can I use it to build the ultimate Pi 5 NAS? Or will we run into issues?

This video is not sponsored, neither Open Sauce nor Radxa paid anything, nor did they have any input into this video—however I did recieve the Radxa Penta SATA HAT featured in this video for review, as well as the Pineberry Pi boards.

My build included the following (some links are affiliate links):

Raspberry Pi 5 8GB: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/...
Radxa Penta SATA HAT: https://radxa.com/products/accessorie...
TMEZON 12V 5A Power Adapter: https://amzn.to/3vB7dPR
SanDisk Extreme 32GB microSD Card: https://amzn.to/3J2Cf6n
Samsung 870 QVO SSDs: (NOTE: these went way up in price... I would recommend cheaper 2 or 4TB SSDs instead) https://amzn.to/4cI1fO4
ThirdReality Zigbee Smart Plug Gen 2: https://amzn.to/4azSfbI

You have two options for 2.5 Gbps networking, if you want it. First, for all PCIe, and stackable boards:

Pineberry Pi HatBRICK! Commander: https://pineberrypi.com/products/hatb...
Pineberry Pi HatNET! 2.5G: https://pineberrypi.com/products/hatn...

But that will downgrade the PCIe connections to Gen 2.

The second option keeps Gen 3 speed for the disks and gets slightly better 2.5G performance (in fact, slightly better than the switch), using a USB 3 2.5G Ethernet adapter. I used this Plugable 2.5G adapter: https://amzn.to/4cGPxmF

Guides I referenced:

GitHub issue with full build details and benchmarks: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspbe...
Blog post on macOS Finder Samba slowness: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...
Create a RAID array in Linux: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...
Create a Samba share on Pi: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...
Set up OMV on Pi: https://wiki.omvextras.org/doku.php?...

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Contents:

00:00 The Ultimate Pi 5 NAS
01:35 YOLO this thing
03:51 Assembly
08:14 (Don't) release the magic smoke
10:08 Software setup RAID 0
12:59 It's hot
15:05 Benchmarking RAID 0
16:54 Open Sauce
17:45 Reads over writes
18:56 2.5G Networking
22:06 But is it faster?
23:33 OMV + ZFS Setup
27:42 ZFS Performance
30:37 Oops.
31:17 DIY or Buy?