Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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al_borland ◴[04 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44466144[source]▶

I’ve been thinking about moving from SSDs for my NAS to solid state. The drive are so loud, all the time, it’s very annoying.

My first experience with these cheap mini PCs was with a Beelink and it was very positive and makes me question the longevity of the hardware. For a NAS, that’s important to me.

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1. chime ◴[04 Jul 25 17:22 UTC] No.44466319[source]▶

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I've been using a QNAP TBS-464 [1] for 4 years now with excellent results. I have 4x 4TB NVMe drives and get about 11TB usable after RAID. It gets slightly warm but I have it in my media cabinet with a UPS, Mikrotik router, PoE switches, and ton of other devices. Zero complaints about this setup.

The entire cabinet uses under 1kwh/day, costing me under $40/year here, compared to my previous Synology and home-made NAS which used 300-500w, costing $300+/year. Sure I paid about $1500 in total when I bought the QNAP and the NVMe drives but just the electricity savings made the expense worth it, let alone the performance, features etc.

1. https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tbs-464

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2. al_borland ◴[04 Jul 25 18:05 UTC] No.44466648[source]▶

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Thanks, I’ll give it a look. I’m running a Synology right now. It only has 2 drives, so just swapping those out for SSDs would cost as much as a whole 4xNVMe setup, as I have 8TB HDDs in there now.

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