G.W. Haywood wrote: > A good point I missed. I should have said in my previous post that > the USB interface devices that I used on the Pi 4B were both USB2 and > USB3 varieties, and that there doesn't seem to be a difference in the > reliability between the two. An addendum: the discs themselves were a > selection ranging from 500GB WD and Seagate to 3TB HGST. I did try a > couple of old 200GB Seagate drives but the Pi4B didn't recognize them > on USB3 interfaces, I don't yet know why. Rebuilding 3TB filesystems > gets old quickly, obviously I haven't even considered trying to build > a RAID array with this rubbish. > > In short, still miserable.
Yes, cause it was discussed on the rpi mailing list (AFAIR) and was not recommended for NAS. You could buy SATA extension/expansion though. I think there was 2 or 4 port. So on the software side you could assume that everything linux can do will do (Samba, NFS etc), but you have to take care calculating load and throughput.
