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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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429 points ingve | 4 comments | 04 Jul 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.886s | source
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koeng ◴[04 Jul 25 15:55 UTC] No.44465605[source]▶
Are there any mini NAS with ECC ram nowadays? I recall that being my personal limiting factor
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1. brookst ◴[04 Jul 25 16:07 UTC] No.44465712[source]▶
The Aoostar WTR max is pretty beefy, supports 5 nvme and 6 hard drives, and up to 128GB of ECC ram. But it’s $700 bare bones, much more than these devices in the article.
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2. Takennickname ◴[04 Jul 25 16:29 UTC] No.44465875[source]▶
Aoostar WTR series is one change away from being the PERFECT home server/nas. Passing the storage controller IOMMU to a VM is finicky at best. Still better than the vast majority of devices that don't allow it at all. But if they do that, I'm in homelab heaven. Unfortunately, the current iteration cannot due to a hardware limitation in the AMD chipset they're using.
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3. brookst ◴[04 Jul 25 16:48 UTC] No.44466021[source]▶
Good info! Is it the same limitation on WTR pro and max? The max is an 8845hsv versus the 5825u in the pro.
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4. Takennickname ◴[05 Jul 25 11:05 UTC] No.44471847{3}[source]▶
I have the pro. I'm not sure if the Max will do passthrough but a quick google seems to indicate that it won't. (There's a discussion on the proxmox forum)