expired Posted by phoinix | Staff • Nov 21, 2024
Nov 21, 2024 11:43 PM
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expired Posted by phoinix | Staff • Nov 21, 2024
Nov 21, 2024 11:43 PM
QNAP TR-004 4-Bay USB 3.2 Gen 1 RAID Expansion Enclosure
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We need a company to make one with a oculink or USB 4 port so that you could connect it with a mini PC that would be the ultimate low power NAS solution that you could easily upgrade by just getting a new mini PC.
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We need a company to make one with a oculink or USB 4 port so that you could connect it with a mini PC that would be the ultimate low power NAS solution that you could easily upgrade by just getting a new mini PC.
There are plenty of DAS enclosures already on the market that interface via USB 3.2 Gen 2 or even Gen 2x2 (10Gbit and 20Gbit, respectively).
The QNAP you linked to is capped at 16Gbps by the bus and requires the open PCIe lanes to accommodate it, which isn't always easy to come by on these mini PCs. Most can't even physically house the card.
Prior to USB 3.2, SAS would have definitely been the only way to go, though.
I actually really like the concept of a USB-C DAS with about 4 drives each, attaching 3 of them to a Mini PC running Linux to build a ZFS storage array. Pre-built NASes don't come with powerful enough of a CPU to consolidate my virtualization homelab.
Unfortunately in practice one of the above issues (either auto sleep disconnects or failing to power on without manually pressing a button) tends to be an issue with most of these DASes.
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