danb35
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It's ARM so it won't run FreeNAS, so therefore OT, but it does look like a slick little package for a Linux-based NAS:
I agree, it looks good, has a lot of decent features. A small home NAS size, or for a small business that has no future need to expand it. I wonder if someone in FreeBSD community might get one in order to work on making it functional for those who might want that hardware.It's ARM so it won't run FreeNAS, so therefore OT, but it does look like a slick little package for a Linux-based NAS:
Hmm. I didn't recognize what their UPS solution was. You may be right that it is intended for a clean shutdown or possibly a more immediate backup for a short period, since MANY who would use such a device (NAS) would think to have a real UPS-- if it is essential that the NAS remain on at all times. They should probably clarify this detail in their future literature.I do wonder, though, how they figure that 2x 18650 batteries will provide any kind of useful UPS. At a nominal voltage of 3.7V, that's a grand total of 23.3 watt-hours of energy. That's... not very much. Unless it's only there to let the system cleanly (and immediately) shut down when power fails...
I do wonder, though, how they figure that 2x 18650 batteries will provide any kind of useful UPS. At a nominal voltage of 3.7V, that's a grand total of 23.3 watt-hours of energy. That's... not very much. Unless it's only there to let the system cleanly (and immediately) shut down when power fails...
If it runs Ubuntu on a 64-bit kernel, ZFS should work just fine. Yes, it'd be without ECC, but ECC isn't required for ZFS to work. And 4 GB would be plenty for ZFS without the overhead of FreeNAS, though I agree it'd be a little light to also run (say) all of my jails.However, the lack of proper ZFS support would be a deal breaker for me.
A little annoying, so I could have either that five-bay hotswap case fully populated, or four bays and an M.2 slot ... and one empty drive bay sitting there mocking me? Shame.
- 5x SATA 3.0
- M.2 SATA Slot (shared with one SATA 3.0)
As I think about it a little more--the PSU is 12V/10A, or 120W. Those two 18650s (at 3150 mAh) would run the system at full load for 10 minutes--plenty of time to shut it down. They won't let you run the system for an hour on battery the way I'd like, but a clean shutdown should be very do-able.The "integrated UPS" part is interesting. If it's got enough juice to keep the chips/drives going for long enough to flush a pending txg
A little annoying, so I could have either that five-bay hotswap case fully populated, or four bays and an M.2 slot ... and one empty drive bay sitting there mocking me? Shame.
...so I could have either that five-bay hotswap case fully populated, or four bays and an M.2 slot ... Also, six drives is my comfort zone for RAIDZ2/double-parity setups. Shame it couldn't be just the smidgen better to get this part...
EDITEDGauthier Admin dde • 6 hours ago
Offering ECC option by using SDRAM chips that have built-in ECC feature
is still in the pipeline. However the SDRAM vendor in question has yet
to release a 8Gb or 16Gb chip for us to be able to offer 2GB or 4GB ECC
RAM. Hopefully mid 2020, we can offer an ECC option, most likely only
2GB.
From my reading of those quotes, ECC isn't supported by the chip/SoC, but they're hoping for the delivery of the "built-in ECC memory" that's implemented entirely at the RAM level, without communicating or requiring the CPU to support ECC.Well it looks like the cpu does support ECC
Yes I see that and had edited my post accordingly ;)From my reading of those quotes, ECC isn't supported by the chip/SoC, but they're hoping for the delivery of the "built-in ECC memory" that's implemented entirely at the RAM level, without communicating or requiring the CPU to support ECC.