Building the best Raspberry Pi NAS - Wiretrustee SATA

I've built a few Raspberry Pi NASes in my day, but none were *this* nice.

The Wiretrustee SATA is listed on Crowd Supply and will allow you to plug in a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and up to four SATA hard drives or SSDs to build your own gigabit NAS.

**UPDATE**: I just heard Wiretrustee is postponing production of this board for now due to component shortages and huge price spikes for some of the most important parts :(

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[JeffGeerling]

The day I finished editing the video for the Wiretrustee SATA, the folks behind the board announced they were postponing production because of the component shortage—some parts, most notably the SATA controller chip, had increased in price dramatically, and would only be available in small quantities.

You can still sign up for updates on the Crowd Supply page, and I'm still hopeful this product ships, since it's the simplest and most compact SATA NAS board I've seen for the Pi.

Subscribe so you don't miss out on some other really amazing boards I'm testing right now!

[TheTechieScientist]

Jeff's never ending Raspberry Pi NAS saga continues..

[nerffan]

Omg, the English word, "satan, " translates to "Satanas" in Spanish. When I saw the video icon (SATA NAS) I was like, "What does computing have to do with the devil?"

[p_mouse]

I really like the whole concept as a Raspberry Pi enthusiast. But for the price combined at this point, I would rather go for a (slim) mini itx x86 CPU onboard solution. Which is much faster as well. Or just a dedicated ready NAS.
But extremely nice idea 👍🏻😉

[JoshuaSmith-hryx]

Thank you for perfectly simulating the difficulties the rest of us would encounter trying to assemble it.

[over]

At first I thought it was going to be another generic raspberry Pi USB NAS...
This is something I actually am interested in ... saving for later!

[SchoolforHackers]

Jeff, I like this newer, relaxed style. It’s a lot more like you’re teaching live in the lab. Keep the great vids coming.

[warmwaffles]

It has been 0 days since you recompiled the kernel

[radexx]

The click it makes at 4:10 when you secure the Pi module in place must be the most satisfying sound I've ever heard ^_^

[ninline]

This is the best Pi NAS setup I have seen. I'm very interested in this.

[squelchstuff]

Thanks for showcasing this Jeff.
The mechanical design leaves a little to be desired, and I'd like to see an open hardware hot swap rack that could take this board and others. There's a few racks that will accommodate 2.5 and 3.5 disks already, but they come as a complete system, so not so useful for a diy build. The board itself looks like a great start, and I hope to see others follow suit soon (ASUS?)

What a shame the worldwide chip prices are all over the place at the moment. Part of it seems to be down to the pandemic and other logistic impacting events, but another part seems to be related to the demands of crypto mining. This rather inflates (artificially) the prices all round with those with enough resources to hoard hardware, and therefore pushing out consumers and enthusiasts wishing to make but the simplest of devices. I sure hope the bubble bursts on this soon.

[tapu_]

Him: *sata nas*
Youtube captions: *satan ass*

[andreaszweili]

Thank you for all the open source work you're doing!

[kayneahnung]

the advantage of 3.5" drives is, that they are cheaper per terabyte, and if you use a typical 1GB-Network Connection they are fast enough. My intel based Fileserver uses 5 3.5" drives in raid5 setup and can usually reach up to 200MB/sec whereas a 1GB connection "only" can do about 112MB/sec. So no need to use SSD as long as you only have 1GB Network. I'd love to see the case being able to accept a hotswap-Box for 3.5" drives, there is a couple of them that use 2 or 3 5.25" Bays - those would be perfectly suited for this setup.

[RaidOwl]

"This is always the best part"
*hides peel from camera*
lol great video, Jeff!

[rigues]

The title image gave me a good laught. "Satanás" is one of the words in Portuguese for "Satan". 😂

[Mikefence]

This version of Tom green is just awesome

[blackhole]

0:46
Him: sata nas
subtitles: satin ass

[CrayonIRL]

As I was watching assembly, I thought to myself man that would stink if he put them on the wrong way. Then died laughing when you did 😂 hahaha

[JasperFerrer]

SATA NAS sounds like satanas which is Filipino word for satan.

This reminded me of SATA NCQ, I always read that as "satan seek you" back in college :)