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If you're going to be basing this on a pi4, I wouldn't spend the money on SSDs. The pi is going to be your bottleneck, not the drives.
The IO board only has a PCIe 2.0 x1 which has a max speed of 500MB/s.
You'd honestly be better off building an itx system or buying a cheap one and upgrading stuff like RAM. Hell, even a Beelink would be better than a pi
Those are fair pointers, but I suppose in the back of my mind I'm also thinking about power draw as well... Speed isn't a massive retirement, it's going to be hooked up to a poe network, if I wanted speed I'd first be putting in cat 6 or something...
Not heard of a beelink, time to research, thanks.
Beelink is just an inexpensive brand of mini PCs like the Intel NUC. The one I have for my office draws 25W max, but has a 12th gen i3 in it, 16gb ddr5 ram, wifi6, and dual 2.5gb/s ethernet for like $300
That's... Pretty nice, and once you've sourced everything, not that much more than a cm4 with good specifications...
Are they available in the UK easily? I realise that's probably a Google-it answer, but I've not had chance to research yet
Yeah, and there are plenty for $100-150 with lower specs that might be suitable. I haven't cracked mine open yet, but there's a data connector that they advertise for a 2.5" ssd, as well as an included m.2 ssd. But even if you just got a usb-c drive enclosure it would be faster than a pi.
Pis are great for small applications, so if your goal is just to have drive failure tolerance, it would work. If you want to run something like plex off of the data there you'll have a bad time.
Personally, I'd just buy a synology 2-3 drive box and call it good. I love my 5x5 setup, and a lot of my local services run off it in docker containers.
CM4 won't be more powerful than off the shelf solutions. RasPis are quite bad at dealing with storage. Also IMHO Synology software is a much better experience than open source alternatives. After spending months test driving NextCloud etc I went with Synology and I don't think that alternatives will be able to catch up any time soon.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.
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HP Microserver + openmediavault or similar.