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Why? It is cheaper to run redundant disks and power supplies with single mainboard than to run two mainboards.
by effie 6y ago
Why? 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...