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Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs (liliputing.com)
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[–] shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Hmm. Let’s say I add 6 SSDs, 2TB each, for a total of 600€. In a RAID6 configuration, that gives me 8TB of storage. Compare that to a classical NAS with 2×8 TB HDDs for a total of 350€.

The HDDs will draw around 4W idle each, 8W in total. Assuming 0.3€/kWh, over a span of 5 years, that is approximately 100€. The power consumption of the SSDs will be negligible.

So, just in terms of storage, the SSD solution is around 33% more expensive over 5 years. If you include the cost of the NAS itself, the price increment is even less noticeable.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

HDDs will draw around 4W idle each, 8W in total

Whether your drives are idle is also a very use-case specific thing and I wouldn't spend any time trying to generalize based on that math as a "oh this is how it works for everyone".

In my case, I've got 5 drives all spun up at all times because of torrrent clients, Jellyfin users, and just general media acquisition and public content serving.

This thing would dramatically reduce my power footprint and save me giant buckets of money over it's lifespan while being smaller/faster IO performance/lower noise.

(My current nas sucks down about 120-140w 24/7, so....)

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My current nas sucks down about 120-140w 24/7, so…

Ouch. I'm around 50W, and my HW isn't anything special: Ryzen 1700 + 2 HDDs + 1 SSD.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it's the drives and the controller for all the drives that are making the power usage what it is. I could replace some of the older drives with a newer one and be able to ditch the smaller drives and controllers, but it seems a waste to do that until they die.

Also, I wouldn't mind ditching for a Sufficient(TM) amount of nvme storage, but SSDs aren't actually getting cheaper and are probably going to do the opposite, so I'll likely end up doing uh, nothing,

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[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But that is neglecting the performance aspect.

Something like this can be very good for offloading large amounts of data onto a parity backed array either to be moved to a proper long term storage solution later or to be actively worked.

High resolution / bitrate footage comes to mind, where you may be offloading multiple cameras at once and need high write performance.

It's pretty unlikely that SSDs will have price parity with spinning rust anytime soon, but the value in them has always been performance.

[–] shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

Yes, absolutely. Right now, SSDs are probably superior in comparison to HDDs in every category except for price (and long-term data integrity when switched off). But when you consider large parity raids and take into account the cost of electricity, even the price difference might only be small, making SSDs even more attractive.

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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wish I could find something like this (low power kinda thing) that could take like 40 sata ssds.

I have a whole stack of 500 GB ssds from a datacenter decommission that I've been sitting on.

The 2TB units found their way into my ceph cluster... but those machines are live vms... A smaller little guy that can stack all these 500 gb would be nice to give to my cousin or something and use as offsite backup.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

There are adapters to bring then back to regular SATA connectors. Then you could throw HBAs at them. You're going to have a hell of a time managing the heat though. They're lower power, but they're not exactly cool running.

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