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charlieg8-Oct-23 5:57

charlieg

8-Oct-23 5:57

The good news is that you should be able to find an affordable interface due to the M2 specification. You'll likely have to shop around. My laptops use pure NVME devices that are far more difficult to find external boards. I've been living on SSDs for over 10 years now starting with SSD SATA drives. The SATA interface was cheap, well know, and for backups, I could just use an inexpensive disk cloner that did it at the h/w level, byte for byte.

It's been a few years, since I've tried again. Maybe there are devices out there that now support pure nvme. It would be nice, but I simply gave up. I've moved almost all of my systems into virtual machines, so my backups are as simple as copy/paste.

Just be careful with the device descriptions on Amazon, Newegg, etc. Somethings the leave off critical specifications.

HMMM, just found several affordable devices on Amazon that support up to 4 nvme m.2 devices. Should be an interesting project.

Charlie Gilley

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

Has never been more appropriate.

pkfox8-Oct-23 21:15

8-Oct-23 21:15

HMMM ?

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

charlieg9-Oct-23 2:46

charlieg

9-Oct-23 2:46

well as in, I learned something new and it made me think a bit. I have too much on my plate as it is - wife's chariot is dead this morning - but I wonder what the performance would be of ssds in a raid. I'll let the OP let us know Smile | :)

Charlie Gilley

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

Has never been more appropriate.

pkfox8-Oct-23 21:21

8-Oct-23 21:21

Thanks Charlie

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

honey the codewitch8-Oct-23 8:43

honey the codewitch

8-Oct-23 8:43

This might help. Almost bought one myself

Asus HYPER M.2 X16 GEN 4 CARD Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 Card (PCIe 4.0/3.0)[^]

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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pkfox8-Oct-23 21:20

8-Oct-23 21:20

Looks interesting - I need something that can stand alone as I don't have a desktop only a lappie so expansion cards are out

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

theoldfool9-Oct-23 1:19

theoldfool

9-Oct-23 1:19

Using one of these with a Pi. I think the key thing with the externals is cooling. The swing cycle on the temp controller in this thing is very tight so it goes on and off pretty often unless under heavy load. Not sure about use for a NAS, you want redundancy there. I use an old Workstation running TrueNAS with NAS drives and ECC memory for that.
https://www.amazon.com/ineo-Enclosure-Cooling-Protection-C2605-NVMe/dp/B08FT44FL1/ref=pe_386300_440135490_mr_sccl_1/139-4683490-8902302/ref=mr?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B08FT44FL1&psc=1&pd_rd_w=ekW4O&content-id=amzn1.sym.886b00ef-b9e8-4320-bdb1-980d10368511&pf_rd_p=886b00ef-b9e8-4320-bdb1-980d10368511&pf_rd_r=YYZF9F4FAWW9PTM3JHRB&pd_rd_wg=Vjhe0&pd_rd_r=6a8aef47-8fd6-403e-aa2c-d1ab47f37645[^]

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Norm Powroz9-Oct-23 5:17

Norm Powroz

9-Oct-23 5:17

I will second the recommendation for TrueNAS. I purpose built a NAS using a nice small Lian Li chassis with a four drive bay, then added a mini motherboard with an NVME slot and a Core-i5 CPU. Toss in some memory, install TrueNAS to boot from the NVME, and it runs perfectly. I originally had four 3TB drives in it, then upgraded to 8TB units as the prices came down and I needed more space.

The beauty of TrueNAS is that you can replace drives and it automatically rebuilds the array. If you use larger drives, once you've replaced them all it automatically scales the array to use the full amount of newly available space.

Management is via a web interface, creating Windows-accessible shares is a breeze, and TrueNAS is free software and vary capable.

Cheers
Norm

DanW529-Oct-23 5:09

DanW52

9-Oct-23 5:09

On Ebay, these at 500 Gb are going for $35, and at 1 Tb they are going for $70.

charlieg11-Oct-23 14:21

charlieg

11-Oct-23 14:21

pk - if you decide to give it a go, let us know how it turns out.

cg

Charlie Gilley

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

Has never been more appropriate.

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StarNamer@work7-Oct-23 14:29

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7-Oct-23 14:29

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7-Oct-23 16:42

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OriginalGriff7-Oct-23 19:45

7-Oct-23 19:45

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GKP19927-Oct-23 21:26

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7-Oct-23 21:26

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8-Oct-23 0:21

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jmaida8-Oct-23 15:25

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8-Oct-23 15:25

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7-Oct-23 11:06

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OriginalGriff6-Oct-23 23:03

6-Oct-23 23:03

It was due on Thursday, but it's coming from the US, which means both the USPS and Royal Mail are involved, so I was expecting it in a couple of weeks time.

But no, it arrived days early. Big Grin | :-D

A week (or more probably - I don't check often enough and haven't set up the email alerts yet) one of my RAID 5 NAS disks failed, and because they are all the same age, I ordered a full set of replacements on the 30th Sept.
And today they arrived: four 4TB HGST Ultrastar HDDs, in original sealed packaging, all SMART details reading 0 hours^**
And ... they have a five year replacement warrantee! OMG | :OMG:

16TB of storage^*, guaranteed for 5 years, all for £179.04 (US$219.10) including P&P? I'd call that a bargain - the ones they are replacing cost way more than that.

Faulty disk hot swapped, RAID rebuild in progress. Tomorrow, I'll replace a second, rebuild, and so on. Not sure what I'll do with the older ones when I'm fully swapped. Big Grin | :-D

* 12TB when configured RAID 5
** The old disks are showing 3088 days, 19 hours and three of them are fine.

Richard MacCutchan6-Oct-23 23:41

Richard MacCutchan

6-Oct-23 23:41

OriginalGriff wrote:
Not sure what I'll do with the older ones

Pop 'em on eBay with a price of £100+ each.

OriginalGriff7-Oct-23 0:00

7-Oct-23 0:00

It's a thought. I could even slam 'em into the old Seagate NAS and flog it as a complete system.

Richard Andrew x649-Oct-23 4:09

Richard Andrew x64

9-Oct-23 4:09

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
price of £100+ each.

With or without the data? Big Grin | :-D

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

pkfox7-Oct-23 0:17

7-Oct-23 0:17

Where did you buy them Paul ?

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

OriginalGriff7-Oct-23 0:28

7-Oct-23 0:28

Amazon[^]
They are described as "refurbished" but what arrived is brand new stock with original seals and warranty cards.