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would maybe be interested in it without disks...
surprised you're not running a TrueNas setup to hook into all the other advantages that brings.
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would maybe be interested in it without disks...
Will try to sell all-in... because if I split it, into raw components the SSD card and M2 drives just end up as landfill, likely the HDD too.
surprised you're not running a TrueNas setup to hook into all the other advantages that brings.
I learned a very long time ago to only run a NAS as a file server and not as anything else. I also learned that the worst part of having a NAS is updating the software to ensure it's secure and stable, and I'd rather leave that to a company to get right on pain of it being an existential threat (to them) if they screw it up. To get that means buying their hardware, and I'm fine with that.
Velocio
Synology DS1823xs+ vs DS1821+
Both have ECC RAM (yay), but the 1823xs+ has a 10Gbps port.
Prices for the empty enclosures are £1.7k for the 1823xs+ vs £1k for the 1821+.
There is a little bit of extra CPU oomph in the 1823xs+, but I think that's a negative overall as it just means more power consumption continuously. I tend to always run my NAS as pure file systems and don't need the extra CPU of these things. The only app I run on them is Syncthing.
I'm not sure I care about the 10Gbps network either... as the 1821+ has 4 x 1Gbps ports which can do link aggregation, so I can already get 4Gbps out of the network and Synology is smart about this to the point that the aggregation actually will allow a desktop with a 2.5Gbps port to read at 2.5Gbps.
https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS1821+
Am quite likely to just buy that too.
It will give me peace of mind on the RAID controller, will make the data migration less perilous than swapping drives and rebuilding, has ECC RAM which will bring that peace of mind.
Which means the total price will be in the £3.5k range, and I'd have to get more RAM and a couple of M2 SSDs to be the cache too... so maybe a little higher still.
Anyone in the market for an 8 bay NAS with 21.7TB usable in RAID6?
Considering getting the new and selling the old... the old is (eBay prices are lowest priced item, not avg price):
Suggested eBay price would be £600 + (£90 * 8) + £160= £1,450-ish would likely fetch £1,200 on eBay easily, perhaps as high as £1,300 on a good day.
Would sell on LFGSS for £1k all-in for a 21.7TB RAID 6 NAS with SSD cache.
There are no problems with the existing NAS, I've cleaned and serviced it every 6 months, replaced the fans with official replacements, added the dual-M2 cache, and the disks have only ever had the same data sat on them and appended to so they've had a very low write rate. Seriously was considering this for another 7-8 years, it's only the process to expand the storage that puts me off that idea of just keeping this another 7-8 years, and so it's up for sale. I'd factory reset / wipe it of course.
It works with Mac, Windows, Linux, can do all the RAIDs, is relatively quiet, is relatively low-powered (equivalent to having a laptop on).