Hi
I’m in the process of building a NAS and in the stage verify the components and that they will work together. It’s not any of the ordinary but I need to verify that my spec correlates with the components I will use.
Spec is simple – I will use a Raspberry Pi5 with 2x 1T NVMe disks for storage and 1x 250/500G NVMe for OS and applications. Storage disks will be in RAID 1 and OS/app disk will be a single disk (will test if it works in RIAD…). NAS OS will probably be Open Media Vault.
My plan is to use Geekwork X1011-5V, 4x M.2 NVMe board and a X1011-C1 metal case to house the NAS. My questions are:
- Can I use the 4x M2 board with 2x 1T as storage in RAID 1 and 1x M2 board as OS disk? Any limitations I should be aware of?
- Will the unite support PCI 3.0 in this application?
- X1011-5V supports NVMe boot from one of the NVMe-drives loaded with OMV as OS?
- I will power the unit with a 5V/5A adapter connected to RPi5 and it will feed the SSD shield with power, I guess. Anything else I should be aware of? Is 5V/5A enough to supply the whole unit?
Reason I ask this is that I’ve seen info on the web that indicates limitation in functionality in some configurations (e.g. RAID will not work I some configurations) or “watch up” (e.g. power supply connections and PCI 3.0 speed limitations). But it depends on where I look… eg this one>>
/Per
