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I completely agree with you. ZFS has led the way in data integrity and ergonomics, and it's time we got it in a small form factor with reliable RAM. Many comme

I completely agree with you. ZFS has led the way in data integrity and ergonomics, and it's time we got it in a small form factor with reliable RAM. Many commenters have stated that it would be better to go with a Ryzen/ECC or some server-grade Atom board. While that may be true from a performance standpoint, it is not true if your priorities are low power usage and saving space. I have several big beefy servers to run ZFS on my network. What I am missing is something tiny and quiet that can do the same job at a small scale just as well while the big machines are turned off. I am not concerned about maintaining fast I/O or running some RAM-hogging zraid6. I just want 4 separate SSDs running 4 separate spools that I can read/write to anytime and later sync with the big machines when they're online. The even the 4GB RPi would perform that fine - I just don't see a point if the RAM is not ECC.

dragontamer 5y ago
> low power usage How about turning the NAS on-and-off as you need it? There's no need to run an "always on" computer unless you want to. If you want to run an IRC bouncer or a webserver, then buy a Rasp. Pi for that. The NAS is primarily storage, which doesn't necessarily need to be always on. (Besides, turning the computer off is the ultimate security move. You can't get that data hacked if the computer isn't even on) ------------ > I have several big beefy servers to run ZFS on my network. What I am missing is something tiny and quiet that can do the same job at a small scale just as well while the big machines are turned off. Ever try just... sticking multiple small-and-cheap hard drives into the clients? Its not too hard to make redundant RAID1-like storage spaces (Windows-clients) or RAID1-like LVM (Linux-clients).