Comment on Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 days agoMore reliable, less power draw than HDDs, faster and far more space efficient.
Unless you are data hoarding random torrents, 6 to 12 TB is plenty.
Are they really more reliable than NAS “grade” HDD - and a ssd cache? I always saw SSD with a max write on them, and a NAS does plenty of I/O.
Admittedly I’ve never had an SSD go bad in my computers, but for some reason I never considered them as a good enough alternative for a NAS.
Are there any data you know of the top of your head before I go searching?
If you use a NAS for file storage it really does not do extreme amounts of IO. Similar to a desktop SSD.
There are torrent freaks out there who really need that price performance fix for everyone else SSDs are fine. Always run them in RAID anyway for redundancy and get TLC storage not QLC.
TIL about TLC vs QLC, thanks
I guess my next Nas will be SSD then
If you don’t cheap out you are fine
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Heavily depends. If you want to use it as long-term cold storage you absolutely should not use SSDs, they’re losing data when left unpowered for too long. While HDDs are also not perfect in retaining data forever, they won’t fail as quickly when left on a shelf.
stetech@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Good and true point, but arguably most NASs are built to be used, not to be not-used…
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Well, they arguably can also be used as one big long-term storage. Not sure who’d need to save so much data for a long time, but there surely will be at least some people who do and buy the “modern solution” over old HDDs thinking they’re better in general. As the “family backup” for example, or as cold storage solution in faculties that can be quickly accessed if needed.
Read somewhere about a professor who used SSDs to “permanently” store important data on SSDs (perhaps in the comments of the article above) for a few years. Well, wasn’t that permanent…
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
HDDs die faster when running because they have to spin though.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
To my knowledge it isn’t them constantly running that wears them out most, but spinning up and down very often. Weren’t NAS drives designed to never spin down for that very reason?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
This is partially true but SSD’s do not spin at all.
I have had many a NAS drive fail on me in the past.