Not sure why this doesn’t exist. I don’t need 12TB of storage. When I had a Google account I never even crossed 15GB. 1TB should be plenty for myself and my family. I want to use NVMe since it is quieter and smaller. 2230 drives would be ideal. But I want 1 boot drive and 2 x storage drives in RAID. I guess I could potentially just have 2xNVMe and have the boot partition in RAID also? Bonus points if I can use it as a wireless router also.
I don’t think that you can have 3 pcie lanes on a N100 CPU
but you can have 2 sata in raid 1 as boot drive for truenas and 2 nvme in zfs raid 1
SATA SSD would be acceptable also. I just prefer NVMe for compactness.
NVMe isn’t the compactness. That’s just the interface that is used. The form factor is M.2. You can get SATA drives in the M.2 form factor as well. So if you do want an small form factor drive, make sure you look at if it is SATA or NVMe and which one your device supports as they are keyed differently.
Didn’t LTT just release a video covering this exact topic?
Haha. Yeah I did see that. It’s an interesting product but ARM-based. Meaning it would be excellent for a NAS but not so good for a home server.
I think you’ll be out of luck for 3 slots, but you could always use the native slot for OS and dock the other 2 via USB with RAID capability in something like this.
Yeah I’ve seen these DAS boxes before but from what I’ve read there are lots of speed and compatibility issues…
Using USB3 / USBC external storage for years.
Buy a good, non cheap, USB jbod or raid enclosure and put SSDs in it!
I have a 4 bay USB3 jbod plus a 2 bay USB-C box, inside the disks are all RAID.
Indeed internal disks / ssds / nvme are better, but consider that speed wise even USB3 is faster than any WiFi.
Just don’t but they cheap and use good cables. And if you use spinning disks, ensure they stay cool.
Can you link the 4 bay that you have. I’ve been thinking of getting a 4+ bay recently but have no idea where to start.
I have an older version of this one https://www.amazon.it/QB-35US3-6G-Esterno-pollici-Ventola-Sensore/dp/B00ORENYJE/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=1KENY5PQOJIOT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nlJxnMmeia511-944B2D_mtdZ4CuHIkQTM0UZoqLAuLIQn470qNhnrRN4H6ezYGx3mHU-TvzPGQojcRUbxyeYnIq51YnLuXz5p_4wdE4_wxD5wnskq2Qe88wR2cuh5b6MOt7lkpoPJqsG9nAdhrZzwTZsrDEFGCi8r9v9xXdBrCnM7LjrU1NyMjZPCM-XqlNDu0439gr0GdnN0XFPvLRqg.7ykrAUTe4pI2DC9C5GLSlkvg_hV1JOosK2G_0qE62p4&dib_tag=se&keywords=jbod+4+bay&qid=1711652796&sprefix=jbod%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-4&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.9d4f9b77-768c-4a4e-94ad-33674c20ab35 bought many years ago.
Do they make 2.5" DASs?
I put my 2.5 ssds with adapters into 3.5 bays
Any specific reason why you’d want to go with NVMEs for your storage, and not just 2.5 SSDs?
If it’s performance you’re concerned about. I have 3 SSDs in RAID (external USB 3.2 JBOD enclosure), and they perform way better than a single NVME.
For minipcs, have a look at aliexpress. They tend to have the branded options much cheaper than amazon. Trigkey, minisforum, Beelink, etc.
Mostly size. SATA SSD would be acceptable also but I don’t see many N100 PCs with SATA.
External DAS seems to cause a lot of problems from my research.
I’m running mine successfully for the past few months and never had an issue. The only thing to make sure, is, that it passes the serial number through. In case it goes bonkers, you can just swap it.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor HA Home Assistant automation software ~ High Availability LTT Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel NAS Network-Attached Storage NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SBC Single-Board Computer SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
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This is what I use. It has an m.2 and a SATA 2.5 port.
