Just a few thoughts based from my experience.
I have never needed a heatsink on a 3B+. The passive cooling is better than the 3B.
A NAS is unlikely to stress the CPUs much. A 3B+ should be able to handle it easily.
The 4B has two USB3.0 ports. That can make a big difference with the NAS.
The 4B has a true 1GB ethernet, while the 3B+'s ethernet will share the USB2 with the hard drive and throughput will end up limited to around 180Mb/s.
The extra RAM of the 4B 4GB can improve NAS performance.
I'm using a 4B 2GB as a NAS (and other things). It has no heatsink, but the case lid is off to allow better cooling. It has never had a problem with overheating.
I used to run a 2B before that. It was adequate, but the ethernet slowed things down a bit.
I haven't used a drive that large. I don't know if there will be any issues with that. The partition table will probably have to be GPT.
I'd put the OS on a good micro SD card to keep it separate from the NAS data.
Has your 6TB drive got its own power supply?
Create your new filesystem as ext4 unless you expect to need to plug the drive directly into a Windows or Mac computer.
You should be able to useg parted to shrink the existing NTFS filesystem and create a new ext4 partition. You can then copy the files from one to the other, then use gparted to delete the NTFS one and move and resize the ext4 one - this will take a while! Using exfat or ntfs for your final filesystem would be a bad idea performance wise. It's best to use a native Linus filesystem.
I have never needed a heatsink on a 3B+. The passive cooling is better than the 3B.
A NAS is unlikely to stress the CPUs much. A 3B+ should be able to handle it easily.
The 4B has two USB3.0 ports. That can make a big difference with the NAS.
The 4B has a true 1GB ethernet, while the 3B+'s ethernet will share the USB2 with the hard drive and throughput will end up limited to around 180Mb/s.
The extra RAM of the 4B 4GB can improve NAS performance.
I'm using a 4B 2GB as a NAS (and other things). It has no heatsink, but the case lid is off to allow better cooling. It has never had a problem with overheating.
I used to run a 2B before that. It was adequate, but the ethernet slowed things down a bit.
I haven't used a drive that large. I don't know if there will be any issues with that. The partition table will probably have to be GPT.
I'd put the OS on a good micro SD card to keep it separate from the NAS data.
Has your 6TB drive got its own power supply?
Create your new filesystem as ext4 unless you expect to need to plug the drive directly into a Windows or Mac computer.
You should be able to useg parted to shrink the existing NTFS filesystem and create a new ext4 partition. You can then copy the files from one to the other, then use gparted to delete the NTFS one and move and resize the ext4 one - this will take a while! Using exfat or ntfs for your final filesystem would be a bad idea performance wise. It's best to use a native Linus filesystem.
Statistics: Posted by rpdom — Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:38 am