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A little while ago I had a Netgear ReadyNAS unit which was faulty and wasn’t able to repair it however I thought it would be worth re-using the case to make my own NAS using the Raspberry Pi. I decided to build my own SMPS to provide 5V and 12V to the drives and the Pi and I’m using USB hub with 4x USB to SATA adapters to connect to the 4 hard drives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9CjN0F9VXo
(how it all looks at the moment)

After hooking up an 16×2 LCD display to the Pi, I made a start up script in Python to check the drives, assemble the array, mount it and then display the RAID status and free space (see the video above).

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Today we’ll be taking a look at the DrayTek Vigor2710ne Wireless ADSL2+ Router which is fairly recent from 2012, it has the usual 4 10/100 LAN ports and 802.11n Wifi capability.

One screw later and we’re in.

Most capacitors on the board are branded Su’sucon which may not be the one of the good capacitor brands. The board has the option of fairly large capacitors which aren’t populated – something seen more in older routers. There’s also a small slot on the PCB which the antenna is wrapped around to keep it in place.

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