Re: NAS purchase advice
On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 12:18 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
RAID boxes have some useful capabilities like staging power to
drives
on startup. There are use cases that do trivial computations on
1000's of files where it would be really nice to have lots of cheap
compute nodes, each with a disk, so you could distribute the files to
the disks and have the output files appear in some
network filesystem.
There are some youtube videos for R-pi NAS -- getting power to all
the drives is an issue and without staging you need a very capable
PS.
Ah, the days when I ran a BBS on an Amiga 2000. 5 or 6 SCSI hard
drives mounted inside, running on the original power supply (and hard
drives wanted a fair whack of power in those days, despite being very
small in size - hence the large number of them). Never skipped a beat.
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