We will be using USB2.0 flash drives for our RAID array, however you can purchase USB3.0 drives if you’re using a Raspberry Pi 4 (which has 2 USB3.0 ports) and RAID levels 0 or 1. Farnell/Element14 (massive inventory, world wide online stores).RS Components (massive inventory, world wide online stores).Search Amazon for “Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit”.You’ll also need a good quality micro-USB power pack suitable for the Raspberry Pi you’re using, if in doubt, just buy a combo pack that comes with case, power pack and other goodies. You can use Raspberry Pi’s from version 2 onward, so 2B, 2B+, RPi 3/4 are fine, but I recommend the latest Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM. It’s an intermediate tutorial ( not for noobs) and shows you how to create a Linux RAID array which is a good skill to have. Today I’ll show you how to build a Raspberry Pi 3/4 RAID NAS server using USB flash drives and the Linux native RAID application mdadm, along with SAMBA so the drive will show up as a normal network folder on Windows PC’s.
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