If you have a 2.5” drive, theres also the ODROID Home Cloud 1 which has the same specs but installed in a different case. The unit is cheap, coming in at about $65 USD for the base unit, power adapter and top case - just bring your own hard drive and SD card. The only downside with the hardware is that the single USB port only supports USB 2.0, but this is a small complaint given I only use this port for taking backups of the internal hard drive. The Home Cloud doesn’t even have any form of video output, it’s simply not needed!īecause it houses the hard drive, the Home Cloud makes a very tidy home server setup and only takes up a single power socket. Seriously, this thing is tiny - smaller than a Raspberry Pi! It’s got an octocore ARM processor, 2GB RAM, a built in SATA port and gigabit ethernet. The ODROID Home Cloud 2 is a single board computer which houses your hard drive and sports some powerful chips on it’s tiny circuit board. All this in combination with a pretty limited CPU, results in poor performance as a NAS! The ODROID HC2 In addition, the ethernet and USB ports share bandwidth to the CPU so heavy use of these interfaces results in further speed reductions. There are several factors at play here, most notably the fact that the Pi 2 only has USB 2.0 ports and 100mbps ethernet which both cap the max transfer speeds.
I want a quicker server but with the small size and low power consumption that made the Pi great! What’s wrong with a Raspberry Pi as a NAS?Īs I breifly mentioned at the end of my first post, the Raspberry Pi isn’t a very quick as a NAS server. This has served me well, but my needs for a server have changed and the Pi just wasn’t keeping up. When I first started out on my budget home server journey back in 2016, the most logical choice was the Raspberry Pi 2 micro-computer.
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