Singel-Board computer NAS

I am thinking about building a singel-board computer NAS running slackware. The NAS would be used to share music, movies and documents to my other devices at home using NFS. I would like to use two harddisks: one for the shares and one to backup the shares to (probably using rsync).

I am looking at the following single-board computers:
- Raspberry Pi 2
- Banana Pi
- Orange Pi

The Banana an Orange Pi both have a 1GB NIC and an eSATA connector which make them a bit more appealing for a NAS than the Raspberry Pi.

Is someone using one of the mentioned boards as a NAS? Does slackware support the boards? Thanks in advance for shareing your experience with similar setups.

Hi. Have you seen this?

Then:
SARPi
http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...rm:raspberrypi &c...

(Pi0 looks cool;) I use my Raspberry Pi as an all around computer when it's not plugged to breadboards... tho I have the oldest one (less RAM) so heavy loads don't do well (e.g: SOME HD video.) Best wishes and have fun!

Edit\add: I also recommend (for the ARM at least) a heatsink with "thermal silver epoxy."

Originally Posted by spongetron I am thinking about building a singel-board computer NAS running slackware. The NAS would be used to share music, movies and documents to my other devices at home using NFS. I would like to use two harddisks: one for the shares and one to backup the shares to (probably using rsync). I am looking at the following single-board computers: - Raspberry Pi 2 - Banana Pi - Orange Pi The Banana an Orange Pi both have a 1GB NIC and an eSATA connector which make them a bit more appealing for a NAS than the Raspberry Pi. Is someone using one of the mentioned boards as a NAS? Does slackware support the boards? Thanks in advance for shareing your experience with similar setups.

The Banana Pi is supported in -current (to be 14.2 soon) and I also use it as the primary build system. It has an SDD connected via the eSATA.
The Orange PI A20 version (not H3) should also work with Slackware and I have such a board courtesy of OrangePI, but I did not have time to play with it yet and will not likely to have any time until after 14.2 is released.

The RPi is supported via the community as you can see in the link to docs.slackware.com provided in the other response.

I have 2 sata laptop drives in a seagate goflex net running slackware arm. The 2 drives are in software raid1 (mirror) and shared via nfs.
The seagate goflex net is an old but interesting piece of hardware because it's the only sub 50 dollar SBC you can get with 2 sata ports and a Gb nic onboard. It's been out of production for a while now but in the states you can still get reasonably priced second hand units.
Although it's somewhat limited in ram and internal flash storage it's still enough for making a nas.
Uboot can load kernel and initrd from sata and root can be on the sata too ... so really the only limiting factor is the 128Mb of ram.

I have 2 bananapros both running slackware current as of 5 Jan but with the armv7.4.2.6 kernel, 1 on sata. 1 on sdcard. One was a regular slackwarearm install, the other was built up from a miniroot with kernel and modules from Armbian Jessie legacy. Armbian used a sunxi next kernel 4.2.6 and I had onboard wireless working. Wireless chipset is ap6181 but ap6210 is supposed to be the "same" module according to Lemaker and it worked fine for the time before changing to 4.2.6. and using a wired nic. I'll revisit getting ap6210 working again later. I have had no problems with these boards other than of my own making. I had had xfce up on the sata board via ssh and it was surprisingly responsive but primarily I access the boards CLI via ssh. I'm compiling a new kernel on them as I write using distcc.

The big model of this card has a mSata socket. You can use the SD port as a slower drive.
https://www.isee.biz/products/igep-p...gepv5-omap5432

Originally Posted by nolretou The big model of this card has a mSata socket. You can use the SD port as a slower drive. https://www.isee.biz/products/igep-p...gepv5-omap5432

I'd be interested to hear a price?

While Raspberry Pi 2, Model B, has 1Gb shared RAM at $35 the Pi0 (512mbRAM+SWAP plus @1GHz(+\-) and:

... 24 GFLOPS of general purpose computing performance. The graphics capabilities of the Raspberry Pi are roughly equivalent to the level of performance of the Xbox of 2001. ...

) for $5.

Originally Posted by nolretou The big model of this card has a mSata socket. You can use the SD port as a slower drive. https://www.isee.biz/products/igep-p...gepv5-omap5432

Msata is is going to be an expensive way to make network shared storage of any decent size.

I friend who worked at bigbuy* mentioned once that the corporations can't mark up lots of electronics or sometimes take a loss due to their initial cost. But, they get you elsewhere; point being learn to make your own cables. E.g: http://www.mouser.com/Connectors/USB...tors/_/N-88hmf

Thanks for the replies. I am planing on buying a banana pi m3 to play around and see what i can do with it.