When I built an ARM based NAS, I chose to use the Banana Pi BPI-R2 because it was one of the very few boards with 2x SATA ports using PCI-E. It worked fine and got good speeds. It's difficult to run a current kernel on the BPI-R2 though (it is slowly creeping towards mainline). If I built another NAS again I'd just use an x86_64 or aarch64 SBC with a PCI-E port and connect a good SATA controller.Full build log: https://bburky.com/NAS/
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