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Comment on Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs
shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Hmm. Let’s say I add 6 SSDs, 2TB each, for a total of 600€. In a RAID6 configuration, that gives me 8TB of storage. Compare that to a classical NAS with 2×8 TB HDDs for a total of 350€.
The HDDs will draw around 4W idle each, 8W in total. Assuming 0.3€/kWh, over a span of 5 years, that is approximately 100€. The power consumption of the SSDs will be negligible.
So, just in terms of storage, the SSD solution is around 33% more expensive over 5 years. If you include the cost of the NAS itself, the price increment is even less noticeable.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
pipes@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Exactly, it’s very small for a “NAS”, that’s the main advantage. Sub 1liter if my math is right.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 week ago
You didn’t count the cost of size and environmental damage.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
But that is neglecting the performance aspect.
Something like this can be very good for offloading large amounts of data onto a parity backed array either to be moved to a proper long term storage solution later or to be actively worked.
High resolution / bitrate footage comes to mind, where you may be offloading multiple cameras at once and need high write performance.
It’s pretty unlikely that SSDs will have price parity with spinning rust anytime soon, but the value in them has always been performance.
shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Yes, absolutely. Right now, SSDs are probably superior in comparison to HDDs in every category except for price (and long-term data integrity when switched off). But when you consider large parity raids and take into account the cost of electricity, even the price difference might only be small, making SSDs even more attractive.