Home Server with RAID 1 SATA M2 SSDs

[runyor]

I have been using a Raspberry Pi Model B as a home server for a decade now. Mainly as an http/cronjob server, it has never failed on me (did a SD card upgrade at some point for additional disk space). Backup was just a couple of SDs ready to replace the failing one.



Now I need more CPU power so I got myself a RockPro64 4GB and plan to setup it with two M2 SSDs in RAID 1.



My current inventory:

- board

- 60W power adapter

- PCIE to M2 SATA adapter (two slots) based on the JMB582 chip



Items I am waiting for:

- heat sink (forgot to order it with the board)

- serial to usb adapter (because apparently you cannot install Debian without it as video fails: https://youtu.be/dENsLmDhq5Y)

- 2x SATA SSDs (1TB each)



Tried installing Debian 12 but (as per the linked YouTube video) I think I got this https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/ROCKPro64#N..._on_Debian so now I need something to hook up to the uart (please let me know if I am wrong on this).



Manjaro worked great and I was able to at least confirm the SATA adapter is loaded fine:
$ lspci
00:00.0 PCI bridge: Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd RK3399 PCI Express Root Port
01:00.0 SATA controller: Micron Technology Corp. JMB58x AHCI SATA controller