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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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432 points ingve | 3 comments | 04 Jul 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.86s | source
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archagon ◴[04 Jul 25 18:51 UTC] No.44466957[source]▶
These look compelling, but unfortunately, we know that SSDs are not nearly as reliable as spinning rust hard drives when it comes to data retention: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered...

(I assume M.2 cards are the same, but have not confirmed.)

If this isn’t running 24/7, I’m not sure I would trust it with my most precious data.

Also, these things are just begging for a 10Gbps Ethernet port, since you're going to lose out on a ton of bandwidth over 2.5Gbps... though I suppose you could probably use the USB-C port for that.

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1. ac29 ◴[04 Jul 25 21:15 UTC] No.44467946[source]▶
Your link is talking about leaving drives unpowered for years. That would be a very odd use of a NAS.
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2. archagon ◴[04 Jul 25 21:18 UTC] No.44467958[source]▶
True, but it's still concerning. For example, I have a NAS with some long-term archives that I power on maybe once a month. Am I going to see SSD data loss from a usage pattern like that?
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3. adgjlsfhk1 ◴[04 Jul 25 23:46 UTC] No.44468947[source]▶
no. SSD data loss is in the ~years range