“Always great service from PiHut. Needed a quick NAS, this enclosure does the job much better than my old Netgear ReadyNAS boxes - great quality and quick delivery.”
“Solid piece of hardware, I'd upgraded this from the Argon ONE enclosure and it has worked perfectly with OpenMediaVault.
The fan can be a little on the loud side but instances of this have been few and far between.”
“This is well made and looks great.
However the instructions are not as good as they could be. There is no mention of the RTC battery type required (CR1220 or CR 1225 appears to be the correct type but I have not tried yet)
The HDMI was a pain, hdmi_force_hotplug=1 and hdmi_drive=2 need to be uncommented or added to config.txt before hdmi will work.
The link to install OpenMediaVault is different to that shown in the manual, however a quick look at the OMV website will point you in the right direction.
The fan is a little noisy but all fans are, the argon-config script will allow some tailoring of the fan.
Overall a solid piece of kit, I would definitely buy another one now I know how to configure it.”
“I currently have a raspberry pi media centre (built into an old SNES. I wanted more storage and an easier way to serve media to it. So I got this. It was easy to build and setup. Packaged very well too. Only thing I needed to do do was use slightly larger thermal pads than the ones in the box. Used 1.5mm as the supplied pads were bot giving me full contact. I have openmediavault running and its great. Temps are fine (thank god, as the supplied fan is very noisy. I recommend you use ssd's as more than one 3.5 hdd generates too much heat and you need thale fan running). Best to keep it cool so fan doesn't kick in.”
“This enclosure for the Pi 4 is very good. It allows you to easily build an all inclosed Nas using a Pi. Before buying this I was using a drive Dock along with a custom made case for my pi to make a Nas out of it. This enclosure has allowed me to get rid of all thar and have it in all one. The only issue I seem to have is the CPU power seems to be higher after adding it into it along with the transfer speed being slower. Whether this is because its having to process the sata pcb, as well as the added sata pcb slowing down the transfer a little. But even with these issue Its so much better than having it in different enclosures.”
“We've only had this for a few days and neither my partner nor I consider ourselves to be overly familiar with Linux or the Raspberry Pi.
Despite this we are very impressed with the build quality and attention to detail this case exhibits. It is very well thought out and although the instruction manual is rather small with tiny print we managed to assemble it without too many problems, the screw between the SATA Ports on the top board is the only tricky one.
We have given the hardware 5 Stars, this is easily the most professional product for the Raspberry Pi we have purchased.
So far we have fitted it with 2 WD SSD Disks and having followed the instructions managed to install OpenMediaVault. All we have to do now is learn how to use it.”
