I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it's ridiculous)

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Post by geerlingguy » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:01 PM UTC

I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it's ridiculous)
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Post by ishikawa » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:02 PM UTC

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Post by PragmaticPulp » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:06 PM UTC

The headline buries the lede: It’s a NAS build that uses expensive SSDs.

I’m looking forward to the day that I can retire my spinning-disk NAS, but at $700 per 8TB SSD I think it’s going to be a while before they’re cheap enough that I want to take that leap.

Like this article concludes: Using a Raspberry Pi for an SSD NAS is a huge waste. There are plenty of low-power Mini-ITX or smaller x86 boards with substantially more compute power than the Pi.

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Post by ishikawa » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:08 PM UTC

ishikawa wrote: post #2

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All fine now. That is a nice job!

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Post by anotheraccount9 » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:08 PM UTC

ishikawa wrote: post #2

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It's probably hosted on his pie.

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Post by lp0_on_fire » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:09 PM UTC

You mean you built a $35 raspberry pi server with $4900 worth of SSDs.

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Post by rym_ » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:10 PM UTC

I get so frustrated with the idiotic thumbnails on youtube video these days. I am sure it's all optimized for the maximum number of clicks/views but if I see a still that looks the way it does at the bottom of this page I generally just don't watch it on principle.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:10 PM UTC

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Post by nzach » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:12 PM UTC

I was the only one expecting to see a cluster with 100+ units?

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Post by ulzeraj » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 3:13 PM UTC

I have a question about this. I don't use unencrypted storage and RPis have no hardware accelerated extensions.

But modern SSDs do, and IMO it is good enough for some stuff even considering the issues. They call it Self Encrypted Disks but I don't know if this feature requires some BIOS specific instructions or special devices like TMPs or if there are special parameters one could pass to GEOM or LUKS to use those encryption capabilities.

Anyone could give me a brief explanation on SED and if they could be used on RPi?