Great video! As for OMV, I just got it fully configured and running late last night on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 2 mirrored HDDs (connected via the Pi's PCIe), a USB mounted SSD and a 2.5GB Ethernet Adapter - so I subscribed to your channel and am looking forward to hearing your results! Have a great vacation!
Yes, Techno Dad has had a lot of cool projects in the past. I've followed him for years, even was on his Patreon for a time. But, I think he got rid of it, because he left YT for a while. But, I am glad that he's back now and making really good videos, as he always has. I learn something from him every time that I watch a video, or I see a cool newer device.
Good work, thanks. ive recently been warned about using consumer grade SSDs for NAS deployments. If you have a Raid with lets say 4 drives, then your SSDs will be working 4 times as much (stripe writing -balancing-parity-verifying), which can lead to early controller chip failure. This is why synology recommends only enterprise SSDs.
Put OMV on a USB external drive and boot from that...then put a 4th NVME and install the 3rd party ZFS tools and stripe the drives...you are leaving buckets of performance on the table running the OS on one of the "storage" devices...
agreed. ... and while omv comes with a backup plug in, I put a USB backup shell on github called OMVBackup which hopefully people will find well documented, super easy to setup, use and restore from
Also, have fun on your vacation. Hope it's with family, because I know you were working hard there for quite a bit. So, be good to see you get away, relax, and de-computerize for a bit.
Thanks for covering that device. That looks really interesting, and I have not heard about it. Pretty good price for what it is. And, yes, cheap 4TB nvme ssd's would be sweet. Hopefully, they'll come pretty soon. But, I grabbed some 2TB Samsung 990 Pro's for cheap, before everyone found out about them and they went up in price. They were $120's back then.
Thank a lite and direct to the point review, but my problem with thes mini PC or small nas that they coast a lot more than a regular PC with no option for future upgrade
Whenever I upgrade my regular PC, I end up buying everything anew except the case and the power supply. So it's no difference for me really. The costs of case and power supply for a mini PC probably aren't a significant part of the overall price of the mini PC
Great video! As for OMV, I just got it fully configured and running late last night on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 2 mirrored HDDs (connected via the Pi's PCIe), a USB mounted SSD and a 2.5GB Ethernet Adapter - so I subscribed to your channel and am looking forward to hearing your results! Have a great vacation!
Yes, Techno Dad has had a lot of cool projects in the past. I've followed him for years, even was on his Patreon for a time. But, I think he got rid of it, because he left YT for a while. But, I am glad that he's back now and making really good videos, as he always has. I learn something from him every time that I watch a video, or I see a cool newer device.
Good work, thanks. ive recently been warned about using consumer grade SSDs for NAS deployments. If you have a Raid with lets say 4 drives, then your SSDs will be working 4 times as much (stripe writing -balancing-parity-verifying), which can lead to early controller chip failure. This is why synology recommends only enterprise SSDs.
Thanks. Enjoy your vacation.
Put OMV on a USB external drive and boot from that...then put a 4th NVME and install the 3rd party ZFS tools and stripe the drives...you are leaving buckets of performance on the table running the OS on one of the "storage" devices...
agreed. ... and while omv comes with a backup plug in, I put a USB backup shell on github called OMVBackup which hopefully people will find well documented, super easy to setup, use and restore from
Also, have fun on your vacation. Hope it's with family, because I know you were working hard there for quite a bit. So, be good to see you get away, relax, and de-computerize for a bit.
Thanks for covering that device. That looks really interesting, and I have not heard about it. Pretty good price for what it is. And, yes, cheap 4TB nvme ssd's would be sweet. Hopefully, they'll come pretty soon. But, I grabbed some 2TB Samsung 990 Pro's for cheap, before everyone found out about them and they went up in price. They were $120's back then.
Thank a lite and direct to the point review, but my problem with thes mini PC or small nas that they coast a lot more than a regular PC with no option for future upgrade
Whenever I upgrade my regular PC, I end up buying everything anew except the case and the power supply. So it's no difference for me really. The costs of case and power supply for a mini PC probably aren't a significant part of the overall price of the mini PC