Nanopi m4v2 successor?

Hey Community,

I have been using a NanoPi m4v2 for about 4 years with the official sata-hat with 2x 3.5 HDDs and 2x SDDs NAS and cloud storage, also with lots of other hosting. It works like a charm. Now a friend wants to build one, but the problem is that the Nanopi is really hard to get or really expensive. So is there a successor or similar newer SoC with the ability for a SATA hat or some SATA ports?

I've seen this FriendlyELEC CM3588 NAS kit with 4x M2 slots, which is quite nice, but 2TB+ NVME SSDs are not as cheap as a classic HDD.

I have now looked at some different manufacturers like orangpi, rockpi, etc. but it seems that nobody has anything like a sata hat. I may have missed something, but is there anything like this out there at the moment?

Thanks and greeting from Germany

Zitat von molokki

Hi,

Have you checked the latest ODROID H4 Plus / Ultra models? I found out about those last week and I've been thinking about getting the Plus model for my new NAS project.

No, but this is interesting. I was only looking for arm cpus. I also read this post here on the forum: Why I chose an N100 over a Raspberry PI5

It looks like, the arm and sata story is over now..

Edit: The question is what the power consumption is. From the post, the N100 uses 25.50W to 25.50W with hard drives.

Zitat von ryecoaaron

This is still a pretty nice setup (cm3588)...

That M2 to SATA is really smart!