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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: 0.593s | source
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sandreas ◴[04 Jul 25 18:03 UTC] No.44466616[source]▶
While it may be tempting to go "mini" and NVMe, for a normal use case I think this is hardly cost effective.

You give up so much by using an all in mini device...

No Upgrades, no ECC, harder cooling, less I/O.

I have had a Proxmox Server with a used Fujitsu D3417 and 64gb ecc for roughly 5 years now, paid 350 bucks for the whole thing and upgraded the storage once from 1tb to 2tb. It draws 12-14W in normal day use and has 10 docker containers and 1 windows VM running.

So I would prefer a mATX board with ECC, IPMI 4xNVMe and 2.5GB over these toy boxes...

However, Jeff's content is awesome like always

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fnord77 ◴[04 Jul 25 19:32 UTC] No.44467230[source]▶
these little boxes are perfect for my home

My use case is a backup server for my macs and cold storage for movies.

6x2Tb drives will give me a 9Tb raid-5 for $809 ($100 each for the drives, $209 for the nas).

Very quiet so I can have it in my living room plugged into my TV. < 10W power.

I have no room for a big noisy server.

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1. UltraSane ◴[04 Jul 25 22:43 UTC] No.44468532[source]▶
Storing backups and movies on NVMe ssds is just a waste of money.
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2. sandreas ◴[05 Jul 25 05:54 UTC] No.44470375[source]▶
Absolutely. I don't store movies at all but if I would, I would add a USB-based solution that could be turned off via shelly plug / tasmota remotely.