Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC (2018)

Re:Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock6... by yaleman on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:55AM (#19968784)

Most external USB enclosures I've used run hot, die early and are dog slow...

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Re:Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock6... by kingosticks on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:15AM (#19968848)

I used an aluminium enclosure for a long time and no problems with heat. And perhaps that's why there were also no lifetime issues either. "Dog slow"? Yeh I agree but mine was USB 2.0. It's much less of an argument with USB 3.0 and even less again if you don't need high performance for your use-case (e.g. backups only).

So I don't think we have answer yet as to why you wouldn't use USB.

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Re:Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock6... by michaelt on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:24AM (#19969463)

  So I don't think we have answer yet
  as to why you wouldn't use USB.

The short answer is "USB has a widely known bad reputation"

How did that bad reputation arise? A combination of factors:

* USB 2.0

* Platforms like Raspberry Pi, where both disk and ethernet are on the same USB link.

* Sellers marketing products with the USB link bitrate (5 Gbit/s) rather than the rate of data transfer from the ideal disk.

* Embedded platforms that don't have the performance needed to saturate a gigabit ethernet link (or 5 gigabit USB 3 link)

* Articles like this, reporting "60-113mbps" without going into enough detail to determine which components are the limiting factors on performance.

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