Beginners • Re: Mirror RAID with NTFS File System

Thanks, I was beginning to think that so it's back to the drawing board.

I find the the low power consumption of a Pi to be attractive for always-on network attached storage. As mentioned above, the design goals for the 3B+ and earlier for many people--myself included--do not meet the requirements for RAID.

The main difficulties I see are

• A Pi doesn't have enough power to supply more than one disk drive or SSD and rigging up an additional supply is tedious.
• RAID requires uninterruptible power or the frequent resilvering reduces reliability rather than increasing it.
• If it's too slow it won't get used.
• Multiple disks on one computer are not as redundant as multiple computers.

I'd not try less than a Pi 4 for a NAS with RAID.

Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Wed Sep 24, 2025 11:14 pm

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