A new expansion board essentially turns the Raspberry Pi 5 into a NAS. It comes with two Ethernet ports and support for multiple storage drives. Both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard drives are supported.
The Radxa Penta SATA HAT is a $45 add-on board that allows you to connect up to five SATA hard drives or SSDs to a Raspberry Pi 5 to create a network-attached storage device for use as a file server, ...