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Are people really doing NAS with SSD? Not just for cache?
If you live in a small place and dont have massive storage needs, it can make sense for the sake of the quietness.
This. I can't afford reliable always-on storage now, but I plan to build for SSDs rather than HDDs because I don't have a separate room to put it into.
I've been on the lookout for a quiet, inexpensive NAS that I can put under my bed and forget about. I currently have 2x8TB in a mirror, and I'm only using 2-3TB.
In fact, I might even feel comfortable eliminating the RAID w/ SSDs once I clean up our backup strategy (yes, RAID isn't a backup, I know and I feel bad).
I have a long-term dream to build a fanless SSD-powered NAS
Self-hosted, silent, fast - what's not to love, aside from steep price tag?
SSDs dominant failure modes of catastrophic failure?
The dominant failure mode of an SSD is to become read-only. There's no data loss there...
Depends on the SSD. I've only ever had one SSD become read only, and I've seen a lot of failed SSDs.
Yes, for purposes of noise, size, speed and power efficiency
I did, because of energy efficiency and quietness. But also I heavily compromised on the amount of space.
Yep. Smaller, more energy efficient (extremes expensive electricity here, over 1€/kW at peak time summers), and more temperature resiliant (had to shut the rust based nas down in peak summer months as it could not keep drives cool enough with 3k rpm ippc fans)
11x 4tb drives in mine. Raidz3. Paired with a Xeon and 64gb of ram. All in a 5L case.
I'm considering it. Our storage needs are modest (8TB capacity, 2-3TB stored), our HDDs are getting long in the tooth, and I want to downsize so it can fit under my bed and plug directly into the router (it's currently connecting over wifi). So something relatively inexpensive could convince me to switch.