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> the weak point in most budget NAS setups these days is going to be memory errors I use a HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 as a (very) budget home/home-office NA

> the weak point in most budget NAS setups these days is going to be memory errors I use a HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 as a (very) budget home/home-office NAS, I'm really not convinced that memory errors are its weak point(!) It has the default (horrible) Celeron G1610T processor, was upgraded on delivery to 16G of memory, but has 60TB of storage - four internal SATA drives plus additional external USB drives. I've tried and so far failed to get it to run stable 10GbE networking. Just sourced a new (old) ConnectX-3 card from eBay to try again...

gothroach 5y ago
I use an i3-4370 with 32G of ECC in a Supermicro 4u case as my ZFS NAS - I got it new for the purpose and it's still running strong seven years later. The only changes I've made have been doubling the RAM from 16G, adding in new storage as needed, and adding a dual 10gbit card when I upgraded my network. I tried a couple of 10gbit cards, but ended up getting a half dozen used Intel X520-DA2 cards for dirt cheap. I've not had any issue with these, and my NAS can easily saturate at least one link. The cards have been reliable in every machine I've tried and can be found for $75-100 - not too bad for dual port 10gbit! As a side note, I was surprised to find that i3 supports ECC.
forty 5y ago
I use a MicroServer too (an older one). They have ECC memory, so you should indeed be fine on this point. But price and electricity consumption are much higher than a RPi. I agree that the CPU is the weak point (mine has a turion n40l which is slow as hell).
- logifail 5y ago
  > mine has a turion n40l Heh, I have two of those older models lurking in the garage from some older experimental stuff. They were at one point configured as a DRBD two-node cluster, which was fun, although performance was dire.

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> the weak point in most budget NAS setups these days is going to be memory errors I use a HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 as a (very) budget home/home-office NA

by logifail 5y ago

gothroach 5y ago
I use an i3-4370 with 32G of ECC in a Supermicro 4u case as my ZFS NAS - I got it new for the purpose and it's still running strong seven years later. The only changes I've made have been doubling the RAM from 16G, adding in new storage as needed, and adding a dual 10gbit card when I upgraded my network. I tried a couple of 10gbit cards, but ended up getting a half dozen used Intel X520-DA2 cards for dirt cheap. I've not had any issue with these, and my NAS can easily saturate at least one link. The cards have been reliable in every machine I've tried and can be found for $75-100 - not too bad for dual port 10gbit! As a side note, I was surprised to find that i3 supports ECC.
forty 5y ago
I use a MicroServer too (an older one). They have ECC memory, so you should indeed be fine on this point. But price and electricity consumption are much higher than a RPi. I agree that the CPU is the weak point (mine has a turion n40l which is slow as hell).
- logifail 5y ago
  > mine has a turion n40l Heh, I have two of those older models lurking in the garage from some older experimental stuff. They were at one point configured as a DRBD two-node cluster, which was fun, although performance was dire.