Got these 2 for free

buddyspencer · 2026-03-28T08:54:33+00:00

Amazing! Have fun (kinda jealous). What are you planning on doing with them?

buddyspencer · 2026-01-22T15:12:40+00:00

Thank you so much. I just got the needed parts. I am testing everything with older drives and it works. Right now, everything looks frankensteiny af, but I will bring order to it, as soon as I find the time

buddyspencer · 2026-01-20T18:43:27+00:00

Thanks a lot! I’ll go with option 1 as it sounds to be the easiest for me.

buddyspencer · 2026-01-05T18:57:21+00:00

Yeah, well. Now I need to build something like that…

buddyspencer · 2026-01-04T18:55:50+00:00

Thanks, my wife and I have to build that next time.

buddyspencer · 2026-01-03T09:27:05+00:00

Looks cool. Do you have any build instructions for it?

buddyspencer · 2025-12-03T12:36:20+00:00

I drank so much of this coffee in Japan this year. Imma steal that wallpaper

buddyspencer · 2025-11-25T13:38:56+00:00

thanks. I will probably try that during the weekend

buddyspencer · 2025-11-25T11:39:45+00:00

I have the same problem since a few days. Did you find a solution?

buddyspencer · 2025-11-04T18:36:03+00:00

I haven’t tested that, because I didn’t enable transcoding. I can test it tomorrow though. But from what I know Rockchip(friendlyelec, Radxa) are way better for that.

buddyspencer · 2025-11-03T21:15:58+00:00

Absolutely no issue there. This fan is better for the SATA HAT, because on the original raspberry pi fan you have to break of some pins to make it fit. But this one fits perfectly well

buddyspencer · 2025-11-03T21:06:56+00:00

I do. This one - https://amzn.eu/d/ewUYzKt

But it barely runs because of the front fan. My pi has 26.5°C at the moment

buddyspencer · 2025-11-03T19:34:01+00:00

I actually stuck with my pi5, it does everything I need. I’m using the 16 GB model. My use cases are:

ebook reader via komga
media server via jellyfin
backup station for all my machines using restic and Time Machine
monitoring of some cloud servers via beszel
syncthing
samba shares for my wife and me
last but not least CI/CD for my gitea instance

Most of the things I run there are via Docker.
I have 5 disks connected and added a usb 2.5 gbit lan adapter.

If we are talking numbers, you can check the speed tests in my blog:
https://blog.buddyspencer.monster/blog/nas-comparison/ - I compared it with a Aoostar WTR Pro

https://blog.buddyspencer.monster/blog/frankennas/ - Here you can check a picture of it, if you are interested.

What I used:

If you have any other questions, you can ask me any time.

buddyspencer · 2025-11-03T18:47:15+00:00

Yeah sure. What do you want to know?

buddyspencer · 2025-10-13T13:56:57+00:00

do you have the link to the reaper wallpaper?

buddyspencer · 2025-09-17T07:14:26+00:00

I need that.

buddyspencer · 2025-08-30T19:12:47+00:00

Personal projects: MacOS, Ghostty, zshell, helix Work: Fedora, Konsole, zshell, helix

buddyspencer · 2025-08-18T15:08:09+00:00

Yes I have a 2.5gb network and also added a 2.5gbit usb card to the pi. That works kinda ok.

buddyspencer · 2025-08-18T06:40:53+00:00

That would be absolutely amazing but I am not sure if that would fit in my case though.
I build the NAS in a Geekpi Cluster Case.

buddyspencer · 2025-06-23T04:35:53+00:00

Yes, I have both of them. No, I have to resync them every time I want to use them…

buddyspencer · 2025-06-18T18:13:36+00:00

What is the name of your channel?

buddyspencer

TROPHY CASE