[TriLUG] Recommendations for NAS with Solid State Drives

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 10:50 PM Thomas Delrue via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> I wanted to tap into the hive-mind and collect some thoughts, do's &
> don't, and just general wisdom on NAS'es, and specifically NAS'es that
> do not use spinning rust disks.
>
> I currently have a QNAP NAS (TS-431) consisting of some spinning rust
> disks. It's working well, but starting to get a bit on the old side and
> so in the spirit of "replace it before it makes you replace it", I want
> to look into a new one.
>
> I'm happy with QNAP (this is not a device that is accessible from
> anywhere else but my local network with no plans to change that) and I
> like some of their easy features that make it super easy to - for
> instance - back up in (client-side) encrypted form to a cloud storage
> provider (off-site) on an automated schedule.
>
> But... the spinning rust disks(*) are slow. Hence my question:
>
> Does anyone have experience and/or recommendations for a good NAS with
> Solid State drives? Has anyone done this or am I crazy for even wanting
> to do this?
>
> Are there folks running a QNAP device with a properly RAIDed solid state
> drive-based array? What are the things to keep in mind, do or
> specifically not do?
>
> In terms of requirements, I have the following:
>
> - I'm not interested in "building it myself" at this moment, I prefer a
> device in which I stuff raw storage media.
>
> - Data survivability is _paramount_, or in other words: I'm totally fine
> "losing 'total usable space'" and having to stuff bigger or more disks
> in the device if it means that more individual disks can fail before my
> whole thing fails. (I think I set up my device with RAID6 back in the
> day but I don't remember 100% - so feel free to tell me this was unwise
> or the source of my problems as well)
>
> - In terms of how to access the data: NFS is the only real requirement,
> no samba, or whatever. But scp would be nice too...
>
> - A nice UI is ... nice
>
> - An easy mechanism to write things in encrypted form to a cloud service
> provider such as AWS Glacier for the "we've had an absolutely major
> disaster" kinda deal
>
> - I currently have 4 drives, but I'm open to more.
>
> - Being able to SSH into the device and maybe have it even run some
> stuff on cronjobs or in containers would be cool but definitely a lower
> priority.
>
> Like I said: I'm fine sticking with QNAP. I just don't know if I'm crazy
> for wanting to stuff it with solid state drives (would NVMe be doable?)
> instead of spinning rust ones...or whether this is doable at all.
> Are there other considerations that I should take into account?
>
> Are there other vendors that I should look at that specifically offer a
> device like this?
>
> Thoughts, recommendations, warnings, horror & success stories are all
> welcomed!
>
      1, Avoid DROBO, Just stay away from them.
      2. If you are willing to put it together yourself, have you
considered freenas? ZFS...

> --
> Thanks
> Thomas
>
> (*) The spinning rust disks seem slow to me but maybe it's because I set
> up 4 disks with RAID6?
>
>
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