uncl_nigel
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Links might be helpful...which will get you a full silent Mini ITX PC rig and change (£100s) to spare, offering way more power and versatility as a storage / server solution.
Links might be helpful...which will get you a full silent Mini ITX PC rig and change (£100s) to spare, offering way more power and versatility as a storage / server solution.
Links might be helpful
It has happened to me twice in my office. It turns out that disks from the same batch fail together, maybe power issues or their internal firmware bugs.
The single point of failure of the drive controller and OS driver is also still there
QNAP HS-453DX
I bought an ex-lease Dell I3 and a new conventional disk and upgraded RAM for 20% of that.This is know is used by friend of mine for roon and movies with 6TB of SSD. Think it cost him about £1200 all in.
Quality 4TB SSDs are around £400-500 ATM
The P/E (Program/Erase) number gives an idea of how long lived/resilient a drive will be but the thing that seems to get SDD’s is the onboard controller failing which leads to catastrophic failure. Like everything it’s not black and white but for data protection roles I prefer the older tech enterprise/nas grade disks like the WD Red and Seagate IronWolf.I bought an ex-lease Dell I3 and a new conventional disk and upgraded RAM for 20% of that.
Any decent operating system pre-loads a file being opened into RAM if possible, which makes the speed advantage of SSD very limited.
From reports that I have read, monster SSD MTBF is not that good either and one nasty feature of SSD is that they tend to die suddenly rather than going through the gradual and detectable path that magnetic drives tend to follow
What is it about the current setup that you don’t like or that it does not perform or performs poorly? What’s the rest of the playback chain, Streamer/DAC/Amp - combo?
Lots of ways to skin this cat. Keep the Mac serving up ROON or a ROCK silent PC but divorce the storage to a normal NAS - can you locate it out-with the HiFi room and not worry about a bit of noise? if so you can use cheaper spinning disks like WD Red and get more space per £.
The QNAP HS-453DX has none of the limits of the 251+ at a cost. You can do SSD for OS/ROON and SATA for FLAC both in RAID1 if you wanted. Silent, so should be happy in your HiFi room.
There are some excellent mini/silent PC’s and NUCs if you don’t mind a PC in the HiFi room, depends what problem you’re trying to solve.
I know what you mean - my films are on an 8To Ironwolf which I only power up if I want to watch a film. I generally put the film on the Mac, watch it then archive several at a time to the Ironwolf.You don't want magnetic hard drives in your room, quite audible at times
Don't forget RAID 0. I use it to increase read/write HD performance - almost double. Possibly the only real use of RAID for home use if your mobo supports it.
I considered doing the same a few years ago, but a friend pointed out that our garage would get very hot in Summer and very cold in the Winter, so I decided not to risk it. If it was insulated I probably would have done so though.That’s why I’ve put a comms cab in the garage with my router/switches and NAS boxes in, doesn’t matter about spinning fans and clicking disks, not practical for a lot of folk I know. Very large SSDs are still pretty expensive and not really an advantage when just used basically as a data dump over spinning SATA/SAS drives.
Funnily enough I've been in there too. Give you a bell later, see how the UMIK is going.I’ve been in someone’s house when they were running more than a few bit-mining rigs and the place was absolutely roasting. No names mentioned.