Thanks Stan. :)

After getting out of the USAF I talked to the Ducts quite often for a while.

Especially about making tea and talking to ducks. It's very important. Not being satire. I have screwed many times just because I was not patient enough, then end up spending double the time fixing and starting again.

@@darwinvinci7744 Something I find enormously useful under Raspbian Pi (now Raspberry PI OS) is that I can install it under a virtual machine. I setup a "raspberry pi" under VMWare then archive my setup. Next, I start experimenting with it and record the steps. When I screw it up, I restore the archive and start over. Once I have a list of things to do in order to setup a real pi, I have all the steps needed. It's much faster to work on a virtual machine than a real one. Restoration takes a minute. All the packages for a real pi are available on the simulator. One thing I've noticed though - Kodi doesn't work well under a simulator. It's fine for understanding setup, but it's not usable that way.

Thanks.

We can appreciate how much time and effort is put into working out the solutions prior to making these videos.

Thanks for the sub -- welcome aboard!

Try nextclound. its amazing!

OMV runs on normal PC's too, and I have found it much easier to configure and use. Its docker integration is also superb. FreeNAS is nice if you want to dig a little deeper.

@@jonneymendoza Nextcloud is not NAS software.

@@Cicirifu yes it is plus more

Great to hear! :)

Is there a RAID solution for Raspberry Pi and OMV?

@@haircutboys since OMV 5 does not support USB drives for RAID personally haven't tried to find a workaround to make RAID work.

Buy another board, like an odroid hc1 or similar ;)

I would be careful if you plan on more than one drive which would make sense in most cases, this would negate the Pi from the equation as you would want to look at a board with PCIe so you could use a 2x NVMe etc etc. Raid cards will be coming shortly also. Definitely a time to not be hasty

@Tony Lewis you don't really need a fast processor on a server, depending if you want a sftp server or a samba one. For the rest i agree with you, raspberry pi 4 is still a terrible idea.. as it will not even be a silent nas :D

​@@SplatPearled Yeah yeah... there are dozens of better SBC, support is nothing. If you want to enter in the linux world you can manage to read some manual, only lazy asses always go to ask on a forum to do simple tasks. ARM processor is preatty bad as you cannot even run scientific software like Matlab, and it is still behind any x86 processor in terms of speed. Then, as this video shows, the gigabit ethernet is a plus but still lacks behind the older odroid xu4 (as you are able to get 100MB/s). The processor is still a quadcore (which is bad if you want to do heavy programming through multi-threading). The RPi4 is good for the maker who wants to participate to the maker faire, The raspberry pi foundation is proving itself to be really bad, as this is another hot SBC and they even managed to forget a resistor for the USB-C. I hope new SBC will use RISC-V architecture, I am preatty tired of ARM. I hope more guys will support the RISC-V architecture, so i will not read "lot of support" anymore!

look at your router for NAS options as well.

If you can the pi 4 is much better suited to NAS use than the 3. The 3 has much worse bottlenecks in IO

Not if it talks back 😬😂

Eating it with pancakes would be better

@@PhilipLeichauer kkkkk.....

Just make sure it's a duck and not a goose. I've heard those British geese can be quite rude.

You must be quackers

Great to hear. :)

Very good thinking.

@@ExplainingComputers Yes please do a follow up :)

Xfs for larger files.

Indeed. NTFS support will be via user space processes such as Fuse, which will add some latency.

It could also be due to the fact that the SD card used is a regular SD card - those are designed for sequential large data writes. When trying to set up the program it's doing random io read/writes in small chunks - regular SD cards totally suck at that. Try using an A1 rated SD card - these are optimized for running apps. (i hear the A2 rated ones don't really offer any extra benefits despite the much higher performance ratings on paper).

I think this is especially true with things like IPv6. That's pure witchcraft. I can do IPv4 but those hex numbers confuse me. No wonder they didn't teach it at my university: only IPv4

i wanna copy too. wonder where out there in the abyss i could find a copy?

I think it's the opposite. That was the main idea. To have people tinker with it and learn. O course I don't think they were able to foresee all the options and ideas. :)

@@jl_woodworks But the first Pi was really underpowered. Don't forget it in just seven years have gone from a very slow 700 Mhz single core SoC with 256 MB of RAM to a 1,5 GHz quad core SoC with far higher IPC and 4 GB of RAM. If most computers have since seen an performance increase of roughly 50-100 percent in the last seven years RPi have seen at least a 1000 percent increase in performance. As well as added wifi and bluetooth, more ports, higher power-draw etc.

@Samantha Anders Links shown below, I use a zero but of course any Pi will do. To track a USB ads-b tuner is needed (not expensive at all, between £8 to £20), this plugs in to the USB socket of the Pi and is used for picking up signals from aircraft. The software is freely available and a preferred one is from FlightAware.com who also have a brilliant forum. If the zero is used then, as it only has a microUSB port then an adapter is needed, this is often sold with a zero or can be purchased separately from same link below where ads-b tuner bought. Also, if you've heard of FlightAware or FlightRadar24 (similar but different) both offer enhanced services if you submit your data to them. It is a great fun project, useful too. shop.pimoroni.com/products/dvb-t-dongle-ideal-for-ads-b-real-time-plane-tracking flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build

That sounds a great idea but can I monitor ATC on a Windows PC @GeoffLane as I don't have a Pi but I have plenty of windows PC's thanks in advance. I just want to be able to listen to live ATC on my PC then broadcast it live to some website for everyone to listen to on PC/tablet/Phone or what ever device has an internet browser

@@SweBeach2023 7 years ago there were NAS out there with 800Mhz CPU, even 5 years ago. You don't need a powerful CPU for NAS, indeed the Pi4 would be considered quite punchy even today. Unfortunately what you do need the Pi is generally missing, SATA being the obvious one. The Pi4 is being pitched as a desktop replacement so it should be able to act as a NAS at least.

We are clearly on the same wavelength here -- this is a basic solution which is sufficient for what many people need -- and also helps people to learn about technology. Absolutely it could be extended as you say, and I may well do a video on that. :)

@@ExplainingComputers Please do this! I've love to see a guide explaining how to extend this to accessing files remotely via the web.

A productive morning then! :)

Greetings Don. Here we are again!

Thanks for your positive feedback, appreciated.

Good point. I had not thought of the file system being a constraint.

@@ExplainingComputers I have a 2 TB drive hooked up to an Archer C9 router to do a basic NAS. Can't pinpoint the operating system the router uses, but NTFS drive writes are only half the speed of any prior Miscrosoft formats such as FAT32. There must be some serious overhead issues using NTFS on non-Microsoft systems.

@@bobtheelectrician6692 Very interesting feedback. IT certainly looks like it is NTFS that is responsible for the slow write speed in the Pi 4 NAS.

@@ExplainingComputers NTFS driver in openmediavault is probably based on NTFS-3G driver that uses FUSE and is known to have painfully slow write performance. Please format your SSD to ext4 and then try the write speed.

Would love to see a follow up video of how to change it and how much the difference is!

This sounds like another video! I like the idea of a tiny Pi Zero NAS. But I've not tried it yet.

If you can try and make a video, that would be fantastic.

2000 years ago even J.C. had dislikes.

Thanks for the fing tip. I used to use it very regularly. No idea how I forgot about fing XD

Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for this. Many here have suggested that it is the NTFS format that is constraining write speed.

i don't see the raspberry pi iso on the sourceforge site, is it somewhere else? thanks!

XU4 -- great SBC. :)

Hahahaha

All the ducks in my park were just quackers.

Do you show your Nasberry PI to them?

@Fernando Martinez , do you actually believe in God?

Great to hear -- and welcome aboard! :)

Yes, it would be nice to have an automatic mirror of whatever is stored to ease the pain of recovering from drive failure. I would love to see a tutorial that also includes the recovery.

OMV doesn't support RAID over USB. For most RAID is a very bad idea. Instead attach two HDDs. Use one for shared files and the other for versioned backup snapshots of the first. OMV has a plugin for this, or you can use rsync.

While the rPi has the speed across the USB 3.0 port as a PCIe device, the usb3 has logistical problems operating as a RAID reliable access method. There are options like UASP which switch the drive into SCSI over USB, but RAID requires parallel writes to ensure safe and secure writes of data. The advantage of RAID is that it improves speed, but if the data is not arriving at the same time, it has to wait for the slowest device, or wait for the slowest device on the USB hub to finish before the next operation takes place. Software RAID, or MD can be used, but it can be difficult to get reliable raid over UASP or USB for the same reason, that if something does happen, it will be out of sync between the drives, always. It is doable, but you have to expect problems or loss of data The other option is to duplicate across the drives using rsync or a MD type software RAID, which will be more practically duplicated as the NAS will sync drives when there's downtime or gaps between requests. A third option is to create a mixed RAID with a Hot drive and a cold drive(s), or a backup NAS , such as cloud storage, which will sync up with a cloud storage system, or pull down files that haven't been used for a few months or weeks. The new idea is RAIN, redundant NAS, or clusters. This way, you can also add 2 or more rPi devices with OMV as a cluster, one will be the main NAS, and the others will point to the "fast" rPi which will be the main controller sending and scheduling tasks. This way, you can mix hard drive sizes and speed, etc. A bit more expensive, but it's possible to cluster storage like this with different software/OS too. At $50-60 each rPi will be quite powerful independently. Past the $250 price point, you should just get a NAS device, and past $400, build a thin PC. There's probably a better scale for value, but it depends on how reliable and fast you need data storage and how much the loss of the data will affect you. The principles are to keep the same data in 3 places.

I may well make a FreeNAS video. :)

Most of these also tend to be very very slow. Even on a high-end router don't expect more than 30-40 MB/s, and on many mainstream routers 4-5 MB/s is not uncommon. Which is a bit of a shame considering a router with a single 2.5 inch drive for many could become a simple of not 100 reliable backup solution.

Great to hear!

Works only *after* the local network traffic has been established (the device you want to see IP for already has to exist in the routing table of the machine you're on, and if not then arp doesn't "see" that device).

@@DejanTesic wonder if a that OS would respond to a broadcast ping. To run the ARP -a afterwards.

nmap

:)

Sounds like a great setup. :)

Interesting setup :-) which USB hub did you use and which sata-usb adapters?

@@christhompson481 I use a Plugable 7 port powered USB 3.0 hub. The HDDs are were bought as external USB drives such as a Seagate Expansion and a My Book. I bought a generic USB enclosure for another HDD. This USB hub has been doing well, but I have another on a PC that is giving me problems and have plans to replace it. I had the hubs for a few years. Before I installed OMV on the Rock 64, I was using an RPi 2 with samba. I had a power failure and the RPi 2 wouldn't reboot. I decided then to upgrade. The HDDs have been reformatted as Linux drives (ext4?). When I upgraded, I bought a 5TG drive to replace a 2 TB drive. I made the transfers using a Windows/Ubuntu dual boot laptop. I first reformatted the new drive and copied data from an NTFS drive. Reformatted that drive and did another copy, etc. I assumed there was less overhead for Linux formatted drives.