Is THIS your next NAS? (Zima Blade Review)

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• jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not excited for the zima project, but I did love the enthusiasm, and the Lego future he painted with his words.

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• greengnu@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No ECC, absolutely worthless for a NAS if you care about your data.

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is FUD. If you run a redundant filesystem like btrfs or ZFS that does checksumming (which you should anyway in a NAS), then ECC memory is only a nice-to-have and not vital.

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    • greengnu@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      checksums at the filesystem level does nothing to protect against memory corruption which can overwrite everything on your disk with null values and a matching checksum; fail to write anything to disk and/or do nothing.

      But that is the gamble you take every day with every GB of RAM you have.

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• agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t quite get the point of these things. Yes, super tiny, but what’s the point, if every expansion requires a yanky case contraption?

  Who exactly is this for?

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s relatively cheap and not many boards like that come with a x86 chip (which makes tinkering a lot easier) and a PCIe expansion slot. How it looks doesn’t really matter if you have in somewhere hidden in a cupboard, like most home-server are.

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    • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But is it really that cheap for its performance? And lack of upgradeability?

      I’d argue, most people would fare better with a regular thin client.

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