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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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429 points ingve | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.628s | source
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gorkish ◴[04 Jul 25 20:27 UTC] No.44467625[source]▶
NVMe NAS is completely and totally pointless with such crap connectivity.

What in the WORLD is preventing these systems from getting at least 10gbps interfaces? I have been waiting for years and years and years and years and the only thing on the market for small systems with good networking is weird stuff that you have to email Qotom to order direct from China and _ONE_ system from Minisforum.

I'm beginning to think there is some sort of conspiracy to not allow anything smaller than a full size ATX desktop to have anything faster than 2.5gbps NICs. (10gbps nics that plug into NVMe slots are not the solution.)

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1. 9x39 ◴[04 Jul 25 21:20 UTC] No.44467970[source]▶
>What in the WORLD is preventing these systems from getting at least 10gbps interfaces?

Price and price. Like another commenter said, there is at least one 10Gbe mini NAS out there, but it's several times more expensive.

What's the use case for the 10GbE? Is ~200MB/sec not enough?

I think the segment for these units is low price, small size, shared connectivity. The kind of thing you tuck away in your house invisibly and silently, or throw in a bag to travel with if you have a few laptops that need shared storage. People with high performance needs probably already have fast nvme local storage is probably the thinking.

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2. wpm ◴[05 Jul 25 04:45 UTC] No.44470128[source]▶
> What's the use case for the 10GbE? Is ~200MB/sec not enough?

When I'm talking to an array of NVMe? No where near enough, not when each drive could do 1000MB/s of sequential writes without breaking a sweat.