tony013

No, that is no acceptable solution. apart from that, it's about the first impression during installation. I have two NAS (rockpi4) both running armbian. The installation of the first one was a few years ago. I invested a lot of time to be able to control the fan of the tower. When I installed the second NAS, I found that the newer armbian prohibits PWM fan control. I then decided to use an external fan controller and stayed with armbian. Recently I had to install a raspberry4 (for the company). Armbian was of course my first choice. But the new installation routine frustrated me so much that I threw armbian in the garbage can and switched to raspi os. Raspi OS allows one to switch the keyboard to language in use before having to enter a password. With the password, everything is accepted. You just get a hint that the password may be too insecure to operate on the internet. With Armbian, the first thing you have to do is enter a strong password. With a keyboard setting that you don't even know! And even after the installation it is still very very difficult to switch the keyboard. At least for someone who doesn't know Linux that well. If you compare the impression the first installation leaves on the user, a raspi os says: Welcome. Thank you for using raspi os. The message of armbian on the other hand is: fuck off! Armbian is not for you!

Hm, the default power supply of the sata tower package has 60W and the old PC power supply has 500W According to rockpi-wiki a ssd needs about 5W - so about 25W should already be enuf ... I suspect that the problem is more likely to be voltage spikes that could be transmitted from one part to the other via the power supply line. That's why I would have thought of diodes rather than capacitors. What do you think?

Hi, I built a second nas from rockpi4 and as I used the 12V plug to power the tower, I thought, I could use an old pc power supply to drive both. But when I start both nas from the same power supply, both will crash. Any idea, how I could avoid that crash and stil use only one power supply? Maybe add some electronic components?

I used to have a real linux-server with raid-systems and there I had regular failures of this kind. The problem is that the hard disks that are sold as single disks are getting worse and worse. I had a few times even the case that a newly purchased disk was already defective. Well, I could exchange it via RMA, but that costs time and is annoying. A while ago I discarded the server and built a NAS based on rockpi4 with sata-extension. 4x 2.5" SSD - and since then there is peace on the disk front. Everything works as desired.