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>A cheap, ZFS, consumer friendly, Dual 2.5" HDD DAS would have been great. Unfortunately no one is making one. May be there is no market, May be they just dont
by waste_monk 5y ago
>A cheap, ZFS, consumer friendly, Dual 2.5" HDD DAS would have been great. Unfortunately no one is making one. May be there is no market, May be they just dont care.
IIRC ZFS is more trouble than it's worth on tiny systems due to the RAM requirements... generally speaking if you care enough to want ZFS specifically you'll get a slightly larger QNAP / similar NAS (I think the smallest ZFS capable qnaps are 4-bay), or just DIY the hardware and install FreeNAS (or similar) on top.
It might work its way down to the consumer segment eventually but given cloud is pushed heavily (and often you get a decent chunk of storage for free with M365 / google / whatever), needs no end-user know-how, and provides a touch of geographic separation in case of a house fire or other minor disaster it's hard to see tiny ZFS boxes competing vs. cheap cloud storage.
- abrookewood 5y agoPlease stop talking about ZFS having excessive RAM requirements - that only applies if you turn on De-Duplication. ZFS will happily run on a box with 2GB of RAM.
- eb0la 5y agoWow. Do you have any pointers to this information? You can get easily 2GB with a SBC for less than $60. The expensive part is the case, and power supply.
- ksec 5y agoYou can google it as there should be plenty of discussions. Even on HN using 1GB of memory for ZFS. [1] The two ZFS memory intensive feature is ARC ( Cache ) and De-Duplication. The 2nd thing is that you are not using the NAS / DAS frequently in this scenario. The memory only get you extra performance. The only reason why you want ZFS is file integrity. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11897571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11897571
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y agoWhy on earth no one said this on the truenas forum. I have 96GB of ram on my home server