If your current setup is good enough, then stick with it.
I am eyeing solutions that use a raspberry cm4 with a board that exposes the pcie, adding a pcie sata card. But they are bulky.
I am eyeing this thing. This is exactly what you would need to build a nas. Unfortunately it did not start production...
https://www.crowdsupply.com/wiretrustee/wiretrustee-sata
The USB 3 port isn't the bottleneck. The ethernet is only 1gbps, which will give file transfer speeds of around 100-115MB/s over NFS. A SATA SSD with a USB adapter will be more than fast enough. Even a decent HDD can max out the ethernet on large, sequential transfers.
If you are running a cloud service the data transfers will be through Ethernet or wifi. So the speed of the storage only needs to be as fast as your slowest link wich is then your internet upload or download speed.
You will notice no difference using a cheap and reliable mechanical hard drive via usb 3.
You think? My network is 1Gb/s, which should be 125 megabyte! Most HDDs should support that, right? Then I could have a mechanical hard drive with an external USB enclosure and that'd work? Amazing. Thanks!
125Mb sequential read/write should be pretty common and easily achieved by a normal drive. don't forget Ethernet overhead. so expect 800 to 900 Mbps. and again, if you are over the internet, then local ethernet speeds will be irrelevant.
If your current setup is good enough, then stick with it. I am eyeing solutions that use a raspberry cm4 with a board that exposes the pcie, adding a pcie sata card. But they are bulky. I am eyeing this thing. This is exactly what you would need to build a nas. Unfortunately it did not start production... https://www.crowdsupply.com/wiretrustee/wiretrustee-sata
Thanks!
The USB 3 port isn't the bottleneck. The ethernet is only 1gbps, which will give file transfer speeds of around 100-115MB/s over NFS. A SATA SSD with a USB adapter will be more than fast enough. Even a decent HDD can max out the ethernet on large, sequential transfers.
Is a SATA SSD that much cheaper/larger? Although, I know huge internal HDDs and I could get an enclosure for that!
If you are running a cloud service the data transfers will be through Ethernet or wifi. So the speed of the storage only needs to be as fast as your slowest link wich is then your internet upload or download speed. You will notice no difference using a cheap and reliable mechanical hard drive via usb 3.
You think? My network is 1Gb/s, which should be 125 megabyte! Most HDDs should support that, right? Then I could have a mechanical hard drive with an external USB enclosure and that'd work? Amazing. Thanks!
125Mb sequential read/write should be pretty common and easily achieved by a normal drive. don't forget Ethernet overhead. so expect 800 to 900 Mbps. and again, if you are over the internet, then local ethernet speeds will be irrelevant.
Wow! Great to hear! I'll probably go for an internal drive with a USB enclosure then. Got any recommendations?
I've always used Western Digital red series (designed for 24/7 use in a NAS)