VIDEO: How I built a case for my Orange Pi 5 out of a disk enclosure

[martivo]

Here is a video of my Orange Pi 5 setup. Hopefully someone finds it helpful!
 

[WarHawk_AVG]

Cool...how is the thruput on the drives?
 

[martivo]

@WarHawk_AVG
The onboard nvme drive  KingSpec M.2 2242 NVMe 512GB (theoretical max speed 600 MB/s in specs) Here the PCI 2.0 lane of the OPi 5 is defenetly not helping and its a cheap e-bay drive...
root@:~# dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1M count=10000 of=/dev/null               
10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 50.3259 s, 208 MB/s

The Samsung 850 EVO SSD over USB in the enclosure (theoretical max speed 540 MB/s in specs):
root@:~# dd if=/dev/sda bs=1M count=10000 of=/dev/null         
10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 27.1413 s, 386 MB/s

The Software Raid in on the 6TB WD Red HDD (max theoretical should be 2x speed of WD Red)
root@:~# dd if=/dev/md0 bs=1M count=10000 seek=100000 of=/dev/null     
10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 53.1439 s, 197 MB/s

Single WD Red HDD (theoretical max by spec 180 MB/s)
root@:~# dd if=/dev/sdd bs=1M count=10000 of=/dev/null                
10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 57.9577 s, 181 MB/s

So in case of the Spinning hard drives the harddrive itself will be the bottleneck. In case of SSD the enclosure is the limiting factor. I am happy with it, more than Ill need for my purposes.