OMV on Banana Pi - BanaNAS

It is $100 for cubox-i2ex vs $60 for Banana Pi. The cubox-i4pro is $140 but it is a quad core machine with 2 gb ram. The cubox-i also come with power adapter and microsd card Banana Pi doesn't support CEC from what I read either. I guess I was just disappointed in its media capabilities.

Yeah... Media Center seems to be a no-no on the Banana. But everything else seems to be quite feasable.

Greetings
David

@cyryllo Do you have one case left? (It looked like you made multiple...) If so, what would you take for it incl. shipping to your neighbour country?

Greetings
David

David.... LOL

Hi Cyrillo

Please keep us informed about that. I was interested into building my new nas with a port multiplier, but I'm not sure this is a great idea : I saw banana pi has a single bus between its CPU and USB+ethernet+sata.

I'm not yet running mine : still waiting for the GlusterFS plugin

I'm now wondering which is the best architecture :
- a single banana pi with several hard drives (I'm targetting a 4 drives array)
- a five banana pi cluster : 4 driving a single HDD and the fifth sharing the content of the others thanks to GlusterFS.
- A four banana pi cluster each of them having a drive and one of them being a frontend to my LAN.

By the way, tekkb, how about the GlusterFS plugin ?

I'm also working on designing a big 3D printer to print a rackmout case for this array. my home made 19" rack has some more free space

Sorry about the glusterfs plugin delays. Hopefully, I will have something for you to try this weekend.

Quote from dethegeek

- a five banana pi cluster : 4 driving a single HDD and the fifth sharing the content of the others thanks to GlusterFS.

5 banana pi plus SD cards may be more expensive than a small server e.g. HP microserver
...but I guess that a 5 banana pi cluster would be more fun!

@ftriscari : some years ago I was running my server on a mini ITX system (atom 330 based). I'm still having this computer, but it cannot handle more than 5 drives, and the case does not allow me to put the fifth drive.

I'd like to find a setup with less limitations, and wasting less power. Thats why I'm trying now these ARM single boards.

And, sure, that's more fun

@ryecoaaron : If you release a first RC, I'll try it at least 2 of my banana pi.

@all : By the way did someone test a driver bigger than 2 TB on a banana ? I read everywhere it supports 2TB max HDD, but I don't undrestand it cannot support bigger ones. I'm thinking about computers with a BIOS limitation to 8GB drives. As far as I know, all limitations on HDD size were removable by some software trick (8GB, 128 GB, ...).

Nice work and nice presentation on YouTube. To bad I don't understand Polish...

You have exactly the same model of my port multiplier card

Very good news to hear, if it works with the banana a very cheap (and very energy efficient) build of an OMV box is possible.
Please let us know how your tests are going.

I'm new to OMV and NAS building, but I'm intrigued by the Banana Pi as a single-drive NAS. Ultimately, I would like to build a NAS primarily to serve media (HD Movies/TV) through the house to various android boxes running XBMC. Assuming my network doesn't have an issue, would the read/write of ~30Mbps be enough to stream media to a single user? What about multiple users?

My spouse isn't a believer, and I'm thinking this could be a cheap build to prove the benefit of a NAS before building a much more powerful box. Still, if it won't serve a single user, it won't really help me out

Quote from Hauger

would the read/write of ~30Mbps be enough to stream media to a single user? What about multiple users?

Yes this is no problem. Before I had gigabit ethernet, I streamed FHD 1080p BluRay backups over 100MB/s. No Problem.
Therefore multiple users should also be no problem. But keep in mind, without transcoding.

Quote from WastlJ

Yes this is no problem. Before I had gigabit ethernet, I streamed FHD 1080p BluRay backups over 100MB/s. No Problem.
Therefore multiple users should also be no problem. But keep in mind, without transcoding.

Thanks, that's good to hear. Yes, I'm planning on it acting as a simple file server, no transcoding needed. Thanks for the reply.

Oh, tell your wife she will be.... she will be.

hello cyryllo
what is your model of 3D printer ( profi3dmaker ) ? and with what program did you design your case? tinkerpad? ( autodesk 123d design )

if i forgot root password on Bananas how can i restore it?
On other system i can boot on LiveCD but here?