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You’d probably want ECC memory in a NAS host, as well as IO and CPU performance that can handle an overnight zpool scrub for whatever amount of important data y
by gorgoiler 4y ago
You’d probably want ECC memory in a NAS host, as well as IO and CPU performance that can handle an overnight zpool scrub for whatever amount of important data you have (baby photos yes; Sailor Moon archive no.)
If your NAS also handles offsite backups and you’re using something like borg or rsync then that too is going to require quite a lot of compute to be able to checksum entire filesystems.
Are there SBCs that have these features? I would be surprised (but delighted) if there were any.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoMost off-the-shelf NAS boxes do not have ECC.
- gorgoiler 4y agoI should have added that if you do want a NAS host with ECC then the HPE ProLiant Gen10 is a good platform. Instead of drive caddies you screw little bosses into your drive and they slot right into the front bays. Not hot swappable though. The advantage of hot swapping is that, in a data centre, your ops team doesn’t have to coordinate with your server admin team so that the host is powered off at the exact same time as the operator comes past your rack with a trolley of new disks. Hot swappable means new disks can be added without having to synchronise the host being shut down. If you’re doing this at home it’s easier to coordinate your admin (you) running sudo poweroff right before site operations (also you) comes around with a new drive.