Comment on Synology/QNAP/Asustor
ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That brings me to what’s available. I almost pulled the trigger on Synology DS423+. It looks reasonable powerful, I can put 4 SATA SSDs and 2 M.2… that’s what I thought. But it turned out it’s not possible to use M.2 as storage with anything but Synology’s own overpriced drives that aren’t even available in my country.
You can use a script to make them available. Still a pain.
Since you only need 2 TB, why do you even bother with the m.2 slots?
Why do you think that you need the m.2 in the first place? I guess you are hang up on “sata bad cause m.2 new” (thats btw only the connector not the interface, there are sata m.2 as well)
sata can handle 6 Gbps. That’s 6 times more than most home network connections can even handle. Since you have not mentioned once how many Ethernet ports the systems have and how fast they are, i figure you only have a 1 Gbps LAN.
Yes NVMe SSDs are somewhat cheaper these days, but not that much that i would bother with it. We are only talking about 2 times 2 tb.
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 month ago
As I wrote above. It’s not about speed, it’s about price and mostly availability. When I look at 2,5" at my country’s biggest retailer, there’s not really much to chose from and the number of available offerings are more or less shrinking. That’s not really the case with M.2 which seems to be “new shit” everyone wants so there’s plenty of options. And even if I stayed with “trusty WD Red” it’d still cost less to buy M.2…
Another benefit (for me) is its form factor. I don’t have a lot of space. Classic 2-bay NAS size is “perfect” for me, apart from its bay limitation. That’s what’s so tempting on Asustor. Either Nimbustor with 4xM.2 or even Flashstor with just 6xM.2 are quite a small devices (compared to what regular 6-bay would be) which is a big plus for me.