Thoughts on CrowdSupply's GnuBee running OMV

Extruder · 13. April 2017

I ran into https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1 which looked fairly interesting. Completely open source/hardware and no proprietary binaries. They specifically call out openmediavault as one of the things it's supports and it's $168. I wanted to reach out here to see what people thought about it or if there's a better route to go for a low powered nas.

ryecoaaron · 13. April 2017

Looks interesting. Just curious how the drives are connected to the cpu. One problem with running OMV on it is that there are no mips repos setup. You can manually add most of the plugins though.

tkaiser · 14. April 2017

Just read through http://www.cnx-software.com/20…sata-drives-crowdfunding/ and especially comments there. Performance numbers with this SoC exist (though with only 2 disks connected and being really low).

If I would want a DIY 5-bay NAS with low idle consumption I would use a Solid-Run Clearfog and add two cheap ASM1062 mPCIe adapters since the Clearfog's SoC is made for NAS designs and performs pretty well in such situations (concurrent access to more than one disk at a time -- the 'performance update' the GnuBee folks put on the campaign page is a bad joke). An optimized OMV is already available but I'm currently looking in an issue with IRQ/CPU affinity which destroys 'NAS write performance'.

tkaiser · 15. April 2017

Here we go wrt a way better alternative to GnuBee: https://forum.armbian.com/inde…findComment&comment=29574

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