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πŸ“¦ SunFounder NAS Kit: Raspberry Pi Storage Solution with Dual Fan & Micro SD Card Review

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Description of πŸ“¦ SunFounder NAS Kit: Raspberry Pi Storage Solution with Dual Fan & Micro SD Card

β˜… Powerful Raspberry NAS kit - A customizable NAS Kit designs for Raspberry Pi which focus on providing a bigger Network attached storage for Raspberry Pi (Compatible with RPi 4B/3B+/3B/3A+/2B, Raspberry Pi is NOT included). This NAS kit is best for Raspberry hobbyist to expand the functions of Raspberry Pi for various creating experiments. β˜… NAS Hat - The E-Ink screen makes it more power-efficient and provides you with a good visual experience, which is used to display Raspberry Pi CPU temperature, CPU usage, disk usage, fan power, etc. β˜… Abundant Expandability - You can add several hard drive by simply adding the nylon standoff and acrylic board . The OpenMediaVault includes services such as SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media servers, RSync, BitTorrent clients, and more functions can be DIY by yourself. β˜… Easy to Use - Simple product composition, accessories with corresponding numbers,and providing detailed tutorial make it easy to set up. β˜… Good Heat Dissipation - Dual fans and heat sinks installed, working automatically when the CPU temperature exceeds 54 degrees, quickly and effectively solving the heating problem of Raspberry pi motherboard.

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Revainrating 1 out of 5

A+ electronics in single board computers

Very easy assembly. It doesn't look cheap when assembled. Pi Hat works well and gives enough information, but I don't use it much. It's neat, but I don't need it. I have a 2TB laptop plugged into the bottom. It would be nice if they offered a dual HD version in case someone needs some redundancy. All in all, it's worth the small amount they charge. However, there is a problem: the OpenMediaVault installed on the supplied microsd has problems. Strange bugs here and there. I'm running OMV on a…

Pros
  • Complete kit
Cons
  • Can be damaged

Revainrating 3 out of 5

HAT does not work for computer components

Right out of the box, Sunfounder only sent an 8GB SD card. Online shows that OpenMediaVault needs 16-32 GB to run. Unfortunately, the HAT has no power and the SD card failed in many places during installation. The terminal said the Pi 4 needs newer software to use on the Pi 4. I had to manually install the Raspbian OS as well as OpenMediaVault without any help from Sunfounder. As of January 26th I have yet to get the HAT working. My son got it for Christmas 2020. Do not buy this product. You…

Pros
  • Weight
Cons
  • No instructions

Revainrating 4 out of 5

So far it's not working as expected for us and Sunfounder's Zilch support.

I first tried to buy this product directly from Sunfounder but the 30% code sent to me didn't work the first time. They sent me a second one, but that was also a problem. From that moment on, no matter how many times I emailed them for help, I never heard from them again! I wanted to use this product as a prototype for an IoT course at a college with the intention of buying many more if the solution works as advertised. The organization I work for bought the device through Revain and we had to…

Pros
  • Best
Cons
  • sad packaging