Argon EON Pi NAS Case (Network Attached Storage) for Raspberry Pi 4

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Tom's Hardware is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . Effectively the same drives, though the Helios64 ones are newer and what was a WD Red is now a WD Red Plus, in the same room, at the same 20-degree ambient temperature: 9-11 degrees cooler across the board. Unaware of that (as my Argon Eon was constantly connected to the network) I run into some troubles caused by my NAS’ time being constantly reset to 2020! To be clear, you could absolutely use a 2GB version instead, I just happened to have a couple of boards available to pick from.

I got a mere 16TB to fill all four bays and managed to get my wallet painfully thinner in the process. The case exposes the entire IO – including USB ports, and a micro SD card slot, and transforms the micro HDMI ports present on the Raspberry Pi 4 boards into regular HDMI ports. In this case the max HDD temp is 40 (which in my case is the NVME device), so the fanspeed is set to 25. Instructions a bit vague, skipping a step: you *really* need to remove the rear IO shield before you try to shove the Raspberry Pi in.Perhaps the “move back” isn’t the best term for starting everything from scratch with the Argon Eon case, but it’s not my first Raspberry Pi NAS – so it felt back like going back to the roots.

Monitoring what that does to drive temperatures now - running it at "1%" permanently, only speeding up if the CPU gets above 50°C. Sure the project load time was a bit longer, and skipping the video to the next timeline stamp takes one second longer than usual, but this NAS is more than usable. Picked up some thermal pads, reinstalled the hard drives with some cut to size and squished between the drive side and the heatsink-like back panel. Since Raspberry Pi 4 comes with a 1Gbps Ethernet, I decided to take advantage of it and create a reporting system in NodeRED that will monitor and report when the ISP is not keeping the contractual agreements. As reboots of all machines involved didn’t help much (it found the server, and allowed for SSH but didn’t fix the web UI issue.I'm actually writing this up for Hackster right now, and spotted something I missed the first read-through: it's a four bay NAS, true enough. Sure we have a choice of SSD or HDD SATA drives, but they all connect to the Raspberry Pi 4 via a single USB 3. But rather than another wedge shaped Raspberry Pi case bound for our desktop, the EON is bound for our living room, office or small business where it helps turn your Pi into a network-attached storage drive (NAS). Moving away from NAS functionality for a moment, we have a Raspberry Pi 4 and this board is well known for the GPIO and Argon have provided a breakout on the rear of the unit. Using more than a single drive on the Argon NEO will slow down performance thanks to the single USB 3 SATA connection.

i read an guide for docker here in the forum telling i should use ext4 for Docker, is this still valid? A long time ago, I read and article about air flow from fans in a case with a obstructed air inlet/outlet… the gist of the article was… if the barrier is around 1 hub diameter away from the obstruction, the airflow was improved. At 13, you start to see minor corruption; as you approach 1 the corruption gets worse until the OLED stops working altogether.If you want to run your own NAS, you will either end up creating SMB shares yourself or installing OpenMediaVault. The problem's compounded by the fact the fan is triggered by CPU temperature alone - meaning that, thanks to the big ol' chunk of metal it attaches for passive cooling, the fan's unlikely to spin up even when the drives are under heavy load. I rather have a silent fan running at 30-50% all the time, than this jet turbine when things get toasty.

This script is very similar in feel to those used in the Argon ONE cases and it gives us granular control of the included case fan via the argon-config tool. Switching out /dev/sda for one of your hard drives that is spun down and post the full output from the command.You’ll need a path to your media folder, which OMV exposes neatly in the Shared Folder section – just copy that path, and bind it to your local container folder structure and you are set to go. That’s not an issue as the moving boot to SSD will sort that out, and I can always re-format these in OMV.