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Modernizing my cluster
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Yeah, I've been looking for a replacement for my NAS, which is currently my old PC (Ryzen 1700 w/ mATX board). But everything I've found either has poor performance (e.g. N100 devices), poor expandability (e.g. mini-PCs), or are way too expensive. So I stick w/ my ghetto NAS box for now.
I'd really love a smaller footprint, but I really don't want to spend more than a couple hundred on it. I've upgraded our (SO and I) computers to mini-ITX, so I'll probably end up upgrading the NAS once we upgrade one of our PCs. That way I'll just need a case and maybe a PSU and I'm off to the races.
But if anyone has found any diamonds in the rough that are small, support at least 2 HDDs and 1 SSD (can be NVMe) for pretty cheap, I'm interested. I'd prefer 4 HDDs so I have an upgrade route, but in all honesty, I'll probably end up replacing both HDDs instead of adding a second RAID.
Take a look at the "AOOSTAR WTR PRO AMD Ryzen 7 5825u 4 Bay Nas Mini PC"
Huh, I've never heard of them, that looks like a pretty cool box!
The main issue I see is no PCIe slot. My current NAS runs over Wi-Fi (I know, I should run cable to it), so I would need to put this next to my router, which is in my bedroom. And even though it's pretty quite, I don't want to hear that all night. A minor issue is that it uses laptop RAM, so I probably can't reuse the modules in something else.
That said, definitely a cool find, thanks!
There's a decent supply of not humongous mATX cases with decent drive options. I found the JONSBO N4 which looked neat, but then saw this reddit thread saying it's kinda poopy (but see the top comment for a fix). But fancy features like hot swap bays make them pretty expensive. If you don't want hot swap there's a ton of mATX cases with 4 drive bays that just aren't marked as anything special. Cases with power supply basements tend to hide at least 2 drives down there. Or there's the classic drives in the front and you can fit a ton of 3.5" drives up front in an mATX or even ITX formfactor.
If you're planning on upgrading I'd highly suggest getting a case with at least 1 more free HDD bay. Replacing a drive in ZFS is a LOT quicker than resilvering a drive. I just did that the other day and I actually thought it was broken it went so quickly.
The N2 and N3 also look pretty neat, but they're mini-ITX, so I'd need to either buy a new mobo or wait until I upgrade one of our SFX PCs.
My current NAS box is way too big, since it's basically a full tower and I only have one GPU and 3 drives in there, so 80% of the space is completely wasted. It's also idle most of the time and never does anything intense, so it's not like I need the cooling either.
Good call. I currently only have 2, and I was shopping for a 4-bay so I could run a second mirror pair, but getting 5 makes a lot of sense to replace a failing drive w/o yanking it out (maybe it'll function well enough to help copy to the new drive).