5 ms·
"Building a high performing home NAS" "I was averaging 60-113mbps depending on the size of files being moved. This was a successful build in my mind! After sel
by ti_ranger 7y ago
"Building a high performing home NAS"
"I was averaging 60-113mbps depending on the size of files being moved. This was a successful build in my mind! After selling my QNAP NAS, I came out ahead on my expenses for the build."
113Mbps is considered "high performing"?
"on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC"
"TOTAL: $172.39 CAD before tax"
This is without the cost of the hard drives, doesn't seem ot include the cost of an enclosure, and results in:
* 1 Quad-core A53
* 2GB ram (the 4GB version is $45 USD without shipping, so it couldn't have been this one), which you can't ever change
* 0 SATA ports
* 1 USB 3 port
* 2 USB 2 ports
* 1x GbE
I would probably rather consider an HP Micro Server (e.g. https://www.amazon.com//dp/B079MFYDSL https://www.amazon.com//dp/B079MFYDSL ), which for $282 provides:
* 1.6GHz dual-core Opteron
* 2 DIMM slots, 8GB DDR4 provided
* 5x SATA ports (4x in the disk bays, 1 in the optical bay)
* 4 USB3 ports, 2 USB2 ports, internal USB port
* 2x GbE
* 2x PCIe slots
* Hardware RAID support (I wouldn't use it, but it's available).
It would meet all of these requirements the poster had:
* Shoestring budget, under $300 preferred
* Scalable, not locked into a certain number of drive bays
* Gigabit ethernet
* USB 3.0 (for fast backups to my backup drives)
Preferred: compatibility with open source NAS offerings (OpenMediaVault, FreeNAS, etc.)
Low power usage (I don’t have high computing requirements for this system, so it doesn’t need to be driving up my electricity bill to run every month)
(I guess the Rock64 may have lower power consumption, but I don't think vastly lower).
I have a much older Microserver G7 (or NL54), which was much cheaper (I paid about $100), and it's great.
Edit: formatting
- mrb 7y ago60-113Mbps is absolutely TERRIBLE performance. Now if the author means MBps (bytes not bits) it's better but still bad. Just needed to rent, sorry, but why the heck do people frequently don't know there is a difference between lowercase b(it) and uppercase B(yte)...
- kingosticks 7y agoI had the NL40. The power supply fan was very loud considering how dog-slow it was. I hope they fixed that. I use a raspberry pi now, which is also slow but it's much, much smaller and cheaper in every way.
- wink 7y agoI have the N54L - it's pretty ok, it's silent. But it's absolutely not fast and also wasn't really back when I bought it :P
- kingosticks 7y agoI always suspected mine must be faulty since it was so loud. You could swap the power supply to something else but that was quite costly and left you with a sea of wires sticking out of your otherwise very smart case.
- talonx 7y agoI have been running an N36L with FreeNAS for 7 years now. I don't keep it running all the time, so it's not really a "NAS" anymore, but more of a backup system since I configured the disks to use RAID-Z.
- kstenerud 7y agoYup, I've been running an N40L microserver for almost 10 years now. Put 16 gb in it & some hard drives and never looked back. It just works. I first ran FreeNAS, but eventually moved it to Ubuntu 18.04 so that I could run some containerized services on it (file sharing, Plex, and a remote virtual desktop). 16gb RAM is about right for running ZFS. 8gb worked OK, but I'd notice slowdowns from time to time. If this machine ever decides to pack it in, I'll get a gen10.
- zbentley 7y agoIf you ever get the urge to play around with FreeNAS again, they really improved linux emulation and virtualization; I've been pleasantly surprised with how much I can get done with bhyve. That's only if you feel like tinkering, though; Ubuntu's a great choice as well.
- pnutjam 7y agoI run opensuse on my home "NAS".I get so much more with a full Linux install and it's still headless and let power. I just use an old desktop with a pretty efficient CPU.
- polyterative 7y agoI was disappointed too
- dwild 7y agoHe is from Canada, your suggestion is clearly not in CAD and from a brief Ebay search, is at least 500$ CAD, which is now 3x what he paid for and much more than his maximum budget. He also switched because of the noise of the previous setup. I feel like your suggestion doesn't cover that at all. Except higher performance (which doesn't seems to be a requirement for him considering his QNAP gave much worse performance and it was still not an argument for new gear), what would he get from your 3x cost?
- PPPPPPPPr 7y agoWell your mistake is thinking that the rock64 has power consumption anything like an opteron. A low power opteron is like 55W just for the processor and a rock64 is like 5W for the whole SBC. All of the always on parts of my home network are built out of compact low power parts that are faster than the rock64 and, no surprise it's expensive. I used a nano-itx celeron that's much faster than a rock64 and gives me 2 gbe links to bond. It would have cost him 10 dollars more and would use 2-5x the power. This shit gets really tricky