Not sure why this doesn’t exist. I don’t need 12TB of storage. When I had a Google account I never even crossed 15GB. 1TB should be plenty for myself and my family. I want to use NVMe since it is quieter and smaller. 2230 drives would be ideal. But I want 1 boot drive and 2 x storage drives in RAID. I guess I could potentially just have 2xNVMe and have the boot partition in RAID also? Bonus points if I can use it as a wireless router also.

  • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    Any specific reason why you’d want to go with NVMEs for your storage, and not just 2.5 SSDs?

    If it’s performance you’re concerned about. I have 3 SSDs in RAID (external USB 3.2 JBOD enclosure), and they perform way better than a single NVME.

    For minipcs, have a look at aliexpress. They tend to have the branded options much cheaper than amazon. Trigkey, minisforum, Beelink, etc.

      • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I’m running mine successfully for the past few months and never had an issue. The only thing to make sure, is, that it passes the serial number through. In case it goes bonkers, you can just swap it.

      • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 months ago

        I run a trigkey (AMD 5700u) as my NAS (unraid) and homelab, and a CW p-5 (N305) as my router (opnsense), and have no problems at all. So they for sure boot Linux and FreeBSD, which is 90% the case.

        Unlike some old second hand, new hardware is more powerful and energy efficient.

          • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            name a feature…

            No need to, they both have their place for sure… I don’t know their features, and I probably don’t even use most of them. but openwrt is solid enough for potato hardware, whereas opnsense is not. Also, my point was to show that both operating systems run on the aliexpress hardware, counteracting your claim that some systems don’t boot.

              • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                I haven’t updated bios on my main pc ever since I built it… so I think the concerns you’re talking about are more hit than miss.

                  • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    8 months ago

                    You’re comparing apples to oranges here and this has literally nothing to do with the hardware that was mentioned in this thread. They all have soldered mobile CPUs. The N100, N305, 4700u, etc.

          • Nyfure@kbin.social
            1·
            8 months ago

            Please include the actual calculations for energy-prices as many, you may not know, live in different locations and pay different prices compared to you.