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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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430 points ingve | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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Havoc ◴[04 Jul 25 16:23 UTC] No.44465831[source]▶
I've been running one of these quad nvme mini-NAS for a while. They're a good compromise if you can live with no ECC. With some DIY shenanigans they can even run fanless

If you're running on consumer nvmes then mirrored is probably a better idea than raidz though. Write amplification can easily shred consumer drives.

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turnsout ◴[04 Jul 25 17:42 UTC] No.44466452[source]▶
I’m a TrueNAS/FreeNAS user, currently running an ECC system. The traditional wisdom is that ECC is a must-have for ZFS. What do you think? Is this outdated?
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1. evanjrowley ◴[04 Jul 25 17:59 UTC] No.44466583[source]▶
One way to look at it is ECC has recently become more affordable due to In-Band ECC (IBECC) providing ECC-like functionality for a lot of newer power efficient Intel CPUs.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IGEN6-IBECC-Driver

Not every new CPU has it, for example, the Intel N95, N97, N100, N200, i3-N300, and i3-N305 all have it, but the N150 doesn't!

It's kind of disappointing that the low power NAS devices reviewed here, the only one with support for IBECC had a limited BIOS that most likely was missing this option. The ODROID H4 series, CWWK NAS products, AOOSTAR, and various N100 ITX motherboards all support it.