An interesting new SBC that could be a perfect solution to my homebrew NAS query.
Specs are pretty sexy, and dual SATA connectors make it attractive for home NAS use.
I am questioning on whether the SATA ports run through a SATA to USB 3.0 bridge, or not. If so, would RAID setup be possible/stable? The other problem is with the Mediatek CPU. I'm not familiar with their usage in SBC, but in the mobile phone world, Mediatek is notorious for releasing broken/incomplete kernel sources. Or not at all.
Still, its under $100. Will be watching this one closely.
Open spec router SBC has M.2 and a pair each of SATA, GbE, and HDMISinoVoip has launched a $93 “Banana Pi BPI-W2” multimedia router and NAS board that runs Android or Linux on a quad -A53 Realtek RTD129, and offers 2x GbE, 2x SATA 3.0, 3x M.2, HDMI in and out, and a 40-pin RPi connector.