Jan Wildeboer 😷
After a few weeks of running my new NAS box (a Lenovo Tiny m720q with a USB attached terramaster D4-320 that houses 4 spinning drives, 2x4TB in RAID1 and 2x8TB in RAID1) and a lot of people warning me that RAID and USB connected drives is a recipe for disaster, I can safely say that it JustWorksâ„¢ for me. Sure, it isn't NVME style super fast, but it happily deals with backups and file copy over the gigabit network I have at home with full saturation of said network connection. Works for me :)
Dec 8 at 7:12pmWeb
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Dec 8
The m720q came with the minimum configuration. 8GB of RAM and a rather slow Toshiba 128GB NVME. Soon it'll get 32GB of RAM and a 1TB Crucial NVME so I can also run a bunch of containers on it. The RAM was quite cheap, as DDR4-2667 in s0dimm isn't really that special ;)
Show threadAlexDec 8
@jwildeboer do you know of any benefit of Lenovo m series over Dell Optiplex? Or it just happened to be available? :)
Show threadKoutsie Dec 8
@jwildeboer hell yea
Show threadPatrickDec 8
@jwildeboer I use two RAID1 USB Boxes at home for backups of my proxmox VMs. Never had an issue in > 2 years so far. But I was sceptical as I had connection issues in the past with USB attached disks. But maybe that's the thing: issues of the past 🙂
Show threadPavDec 9
@jwildeboer I don't think there's anything wrong with USB connected drives so long as your medium is physical. I think the issue is with using flash drives. Potential for data corruption and drive failure on power outages. The only probable downside is a potential bottleneck in speed/concurrency over sata. But if you're hitting decent enough speeds who cares
Show threadPavDec 9
@jwildeboer I had a similar setup where I accidentally put a redis volume on an nfs and man did that make my whole system chug. I now know better than to let kubernetes choose it's volumes.