Hi, I'm excited at the idea of having a Rock 5 ITX Card to support my internal NAS project. My current NAS is based on an MZHOU SATA PCIE card (6 ports), with LVM2 and mdadm for redundancy and a removable 6 disk drive Icy dock. Perhaps it is simpler to replace it with the 4 native ports available on your SBC...? For the network aspect, I would like to use the LACP protocol (802.3ad) on the 2 Ethernet ports. The second project is to use this SBC as a firewall between the two Ethernet ports. In this context, the firewall will be implemented in an LXC container with access restricted by Posix capability limitation.
Cheers, Jean-Marc L.