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Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by koldanor@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey there selfhosted community.

Does anyone here have experience with silent or mostly silent storage solutions? I would like to implement a NAS solution for my homelab and home.

I tried a fully fledged consumer NAS (QNAP with Seagate 12 TB NAS drives) but the noise of the platters was not acceptable. Currently I have a external WD drive attached via USB to my mini PC/server but I would really love to implement some kind of redundancy in the form of a NAS from where the critical files would be backed up to Hetzner for offsite and on external drives.

I don't need a ton of space. My most critical items are photos. As silent operation is very important I started looking into ssd NAS solutions. Does anyone have experience with Beelink ME mini? Other solutions I looked into where either overkill or horrendously expensive.

I would really like to pull the trigger on a solution here before the prices for storage will skyrocket in the future.

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[–] joulethief@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Worth noting that cards such as this (with mote than one M.2 slot) require the mainboard to support PCIe bifurcation – which most old boards likely do not.

Edit: Cards with just one slot do not require this feature so you can plug them into any board that has a free PCIe slot. Unless you also want to boot from them, in which case you might need to modify your UEFI. I went that route and succeeded, but be aware of the risks involved.

[–] kumi@feddit.online 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Had a fun one when I put an 8x card forking into two nvme drives in a mobo that I thought compatible. No matter what, only one of them connects. Turned out:

The 8x slot didn't bifurcate at all
The secondary 16x slot could do up to 8x4x4. Which is the same as no bifurcation for an 8x card in that slot.
GPU only works in the primary slot

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