Rock5 as Samba file share

So 1 year and 3 months later, the NAS with 10 ssd drives powered by Power delivery trigger is still working just fine.

As for kernel it’s a bit tricky, since I dont update it because of NC552SFP that is connected to the top M.2 slot.

Right now its working by using mdadm raid5 from 10ssd drives. The roles are:

  • SMB share for personal usage
  • NFS share for vcenter
  • Torrent node
  • Nextcloud server
  • Decentralised java based image hosting server

The only problem I met is MOLEX cables, it’s actually better to use sata power cables because so far, there were a few situations (like 4 so far) where because of molex connection the ssd (from 1 to 4 ssd) were cut off, since they were powered off.

So mdadm raid had a bit of hiccup, but --force assemble always fixed it (and fsck.ext4).