Fun project! Love your videos by the way, the knowledge you share is valuable. I should leave more comments and questions. I've personally wanted to put together a "compact" NAS comprised of 24 or more NVMe M.2 or U.2 drives (M.2 better for thr compact plan I'd guess) but it's a difficult ask due to the PCIe lanes. I guess the only way would be to do something with an EPYC CPU (Siena?). I just wonder how it could be put into a compact form factor or if it's infeasible.
Oh for sure and most of my video talk to not doing it but this time it s about how small can you get and still have an NAS. Why not an I get it so you can use any small I/O controller board that you like. But the Pie is the basic out there so I use it as my ZFS controller n this case. I don't really do back ended slow NAS solutions myself but in this case it's about the size mostly but I do agree. I am enjoying the design part of this I got to say.
Fun project! Love your videos by the way, the knowledge you share is valuable. I should leave more comments and questions.
I've personally wanted to put together a "compact" NAS comprised of 24 or more NVMe M.2 or U.2 drives (M.2 better for thr compact plan I'd guess) but it's a difficult ask due to the PCIe lanes. I guess the only way would be to do something with an EPYC CPU (Siena?). I just wonder how it could be put into a compact form factor or if it's infeasible.
That is the whole point, give it a try and learn something new
1GBe makes the pi useless as a nas imo. Not even gonna talk about the PCIe 2.0 1x. There are solutions not much bigger but way better
as Flash storage NAS*
Oh for sure and most of my video talk to not doing it but this time it s about how small can you get and still have an NAS. Why not an I get it so you can use any small I/O controller board that you like. But the Pie is the basic out there so I use it as my ZFS controller n this case. I don't really do back ended slow NAS solutions myself but in this case it's about the size mostly but I do agree. I am enjoying the design part of this I got to say.