expiredJoeWee65 posted Jul 14, 2024 01:41 AM
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expiredJoeWee65 posted Jul 14, 2024 01:41 AM
TERRAMASTER F4-423 4-Bay High Performance NAS (Diskless) + $30 Newegg eGift Card
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Memory upgrade is pretty straightforward, though I don't think you can go over 32GB. It has two slots, so that's 2x16GB.
The BIOS doesn't limit the M.2 slots to just storage devices. I put a Google Coral board in one of the M.2 slots and it's being used to do object detection on security camera footage.
The N5095's hardware video transcoding works nicely too, but I recommend building the Intel fork of ffmpeg if you plan on transcoding 24/7 (e.g., from a security camera). The CPU occasionally seems to choke when doing hardware transcoding for long periods, and the Intel ffmpeg fork handles it much more gracefully than the official ffmpeg release (a few corrupt blocks vs. a completely stopped video stream).
This model does have 2 nvme slots that can be used for cache or extra storage but bandwidth on the board is severely limited so it's almost pointless.
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They were cool with refund though - I bought from Newegg.
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Can someone suggest a reliable easy to use solution please? Shouldn't require lot of tweaking etc. thanks! This is purely for home use
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I didn't follow this video, so I can't speak directly to it working (I just used trial-and-error), but it looks like this YouTube video shows the issues with the default BIOS and how to fix it / install a different OS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPLHHLJ
He also shows the disassembly process (which you'll need to go through to remove the built-in OS installer USB stick and install all your M.2 devices). He's installing Debian, but it's pretty much the exact same process with Ubuntu Server -- you'll just create an Ubuntu Server installer instead of a Debian installer if you want Ubuntu, etc.
I didn't follow this video, so I can't speak directly to it working (I just used trial-and-error), but it looks like this YouTube video shows the issues with the default BIOS and how to fix it / install a different OS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPLHHLJ
He also shows the disassembly process (which you'll need to go through to remove the built-in OS installer USB stick and install all your M.2 devices). He's installing Debian, but it's pretty much the exact same process with Ubuntu Server -- you'll just create an Ubuntu Server installer instead of a Debian installer if you want Ubuntu, etc.
A better choice would be the Mediasonic Raid 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure (HFR7-SU31CH). It is $150 at the moment and has USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps and RAID... if you care about hardware RAID.
Doesn't it make more sense than this device?
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Doesn't it make more sense than this device?
I am currently using an M1 Mac mini I got for $379.99 from the Microcenter deal and a USB HDD.
What 12TB HDD did you buy for $75? If it is one of those used data center drives you better have redundancy. Really with 12TB of data you care about you should always have redundancy and backup.
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