Rock64 NAS project

[yours_david]

Have you tried with massive HDD copying tasks on your setup? How's its stability? Thanks.

Speed and stability have been great. I currently have two 2TB hard disks connected to the controller, with the controller performing hardware RAID 1 (mirroring), and have it connected to my Rock64 (running Open Media Vault) via USB 3.0. I'm sharing an NTFS formatted volume using SAMBA.

I use it as a target for daily backups of my homelab, with backups being taken of an ESXi host by Veeam Backup & Recovery. I usually see transfer speeds in excess of between 90 and 100 MB/s while running backups over the network.

I know I might get slightly better performance if I were to reformat the disks as EXT4, but I wanted to be able to plug the controller + disks into a Windows machine if need-be.

Thanks for your reply Leapo. I have received mine, Rock64 connected with a two bay HDD dock get total bandwidth at about 100mb/s reading from windows big file copy task. I have found copy within 2 bay HDDs the speed drop down to about 50mb/s from rsync command, seem that the whole bottleneck is the USB 3.0. Plus, only a few of time, my HDDs droped offline. Seem stability may need to improve a little bit.