Tiny NAS Big $$

This tiny NAS device fits in the palm of your hand and can take up to 32TB of sweet SSD storage.

Cool, but those 8TB SSD drives are $600 each, you have to put your own OS on this puppy as well as know how to configure it (easy for me, hard for most), it only has 2.5Gb Ethernet (10Gb would be better) and those drives are gonna get hot in something so small.

Also, 32TB is a notional capacity. You’d want this in a least something like RAID 5 or ZFS RAID-Z1 single parity, so you’re talking around 24TB or 21TB actual capacity, depending.

On the other hand, you could buy two 20TB spinning rust drives, slap them in a cheapo NAS in RAID-1 and then you’d have 20TB of storage with roughly the same speed (due to network limitations) for less than a Cleveland1.

In the SSD variant you’d pay $2,600 for the same speed and storage amount with no significant increase in data safety

So, bad deal. Very bad deal. But it would be quiet at least.

  1. That’s a thousand dollars for you proles.

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