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I've managed to get #OpenMediaVault working on my #RaspberryPi (running #Raspbian Lite) and the performance seems pretty impressive! Despite relying on USB storage for the SSDs.

This is my first time running a #NAS on the Pi, on #OMV, not using #ZFS or #RAID but rather an #Unraid like solution, 'cept, #FOSS called #SnapRAID in combination with #mergerfs (the drives themselves are simply #EXT4).

So far, honestly, so good. I got 2x 1TB SSDs for data, and another 1TB SSD for parity. Don't have a backup for the data themselves atm, but I do have a scheduled backup solution (#RaspiBackup) setup for the OS itself (SD card). It's also got #Timeshift for creating daily snapshots.

I'm not out of the woods yet though, cos after this comes the (somewhat) scary part - deploying #Immich on the Pi lol (using OMV's #Docker compose interface perhaps). I really could just deploy it in my #Proxmox #homelab, and I wouldn't have to worry about system resources or hardware transcoding, etc. but I really wanna experiment this 'everything hosted/contained in 1 Pi' concept.

Still in my painful journey of building my #RaspberryPi 4 #NAS with #OpenMediaVault lol, on today's episode:

My setup is comprised of:

- Pi 4 (4GB)
- SD card for boot storage
- USB Drive for backup (USB 3)
- USB 3 cable -> External powered USB 3 hub -> 3 SATA SSDs via SATA-USB3 cables (USB 3)
- Other USB 2 ports are not occupied

When I boot it up (on #Raspbian Lite, #OMV installed), if I do a lsblk, all drives show up incl. USB stick and all 3 SATA SSDs. But when I hop on to OMV > Storage > Disks, it takes a long time to scan/list down all attached storage, and it might do in the end... BUT it will end with all my USB stick AND 3 SATA SSDs crashing/disappearing from my Pi (i.e. no longer show up in lsblk).

What could be the cause, and could it be 'fixed'? Trying to figure out the limitation of the Pi 4 here.. I'm not sure if it's an issue with the USB-SATA cable, the USB hub, the power supply I bought (separately) for the USB hub, or wtv else?

🔗 https://gist.github.com/irfanhakim-as/b6c2a4f9582adc80a4cdd4d408f9c3f7 (logs)

Just realised #OpenMediaVault (#OMV) only supports #Debian, not #Ubuntu. My #RaspberryPi has #Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed atm (and currently running as a QDevice for my #Proxmox cluster), so I'll prolly have to scratch that and install... #Raspbian (Lite), which should be Debian 12?