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452 points amacbride | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 06:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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M95D ◴[29 Aug 25 08:47 UTC] No.45061719[source]▶
But self-building a NAS is still a problem, and I'm also talking about this [1] article from the same blog:

There are NO low power NAS boards. I'm talking about something with an ARM CPU, no video, no audio, lots of memory (or SODIMM slot) and 10+ SATA ports.

Sure, anyone can buy a self-powered USB3 hub and add 7 external HDDs to a raspbery, but that level of performance is really really low, not to mention the USB random disconnects. And no, port replicators aren't much better.

[1] https://lowendbox.com/blog/are-you-recyling-old-hardware-for...

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iamshs ◴[29 Aug 25 09:10 UTC] No.45061869[source]▶
Low power and reliability is why I want to just use my Mac Mini M4 + DAS as storage solution among 15 people. I am not sold on it because Mac Mini has lots of life in it to be solely devoted to this use case.
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1. TheDong ◴[29 Aug 25 10:11 UTC] No.45062241[source]▶
I wouldn't be sold on it because macOS is a terrible server OS.

If it can't run linux, it's not going to make a good storage server on the software side of things.