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I'd skip RAID altogether with these and use a RAIN approach with multiple lightweight nodes with one drive each.
by api 6y ago
I'd skip RAID altogether with these and use a RAIN approach with multiple lightweight nodes with one drive each.
- effie 6y agoWhy? It is cheaper to run redundant disks and power supplies with single mainboard than to run two mainboards.
- api 6y agoThe mainboard could be a Raspberry Pi class system but with an on-board SATA. There are a number of those on the market. The board would be smaller than the drive. Seagate should sell such a machine capable of running arbitrary Linux distributions as a kind of mini-NAS.
- effie 6y agoOh you mean a home solution for few people who do not require 99.99% uptime, then yeah one could try to go that way although all such attempts I've seen (such as [1]) seem way too cumbersome, I would just build a silent PC, way simpler, more extensible and easily replaceable components. I thought you meant to use RAIN for business servers. [1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/building-fastest-raspberry-pi-nas-sata-raid https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/building-fastest-rasp...