NAS Drive Enclosure NVM

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Can anyone point in the Direction of a simple NAS drive using NVM instead of disk (2 or 4 bay) Needs to have a ethernet port so it can be stuck up in the loft and forgotten about till a drive fails. (can you guess what has happened after 15 years or so)
 
There's the Asustor FS6706T but that's six bay and not particularly cheap. A slightly cheaper option would be the Asustor AS5402 which has four M.2 slots and two 3.5" bays.
Why not just use SATA SSDs in place of HDDs?

Asking for Ethernet on a NAS is like asking for wheels on a car. :)
 
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You say that but doing the digging some are coming up as usb c only.
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That's because M.2 NVMe isn't yet popular for NAS use - it's more for local storage or USB caddies to repurpose old drives as external storage as people upgrade.

M.2 NVMe aren't hot swappable - hence why they haven't been adopted, as most NAS allow hot swapping to replace failed drives. Even Servers don't really use M.2 NVMe for anything - they've only recently started standardising on U.2/U.3 for 2.5" NVMe drives, and E1.S /E1.L for smaller form factor drives.

There's also the lack of bandwidth when connected via a network - even with 2.5Gb Ethernet (whose adoption is still far from common), can only manage ~300MB/s - which is slower than even the slowest SATA SSD these days, so the speed of NVMe would be wasted.
 
SPG said:
Can anyone point in the Direction of a simple NAS drive using NVM instead of disk (2 or 4 bay) Needs to have a ethernet port so it can be stuck up in the loft and forgotten about till a drive fails. (can you guess what has happened after 15 years or so)
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I've got a Lincstation N1 NAS coming. It's 6 x SSD bays (two sata ssds and four NVMes). It also comes with an Unraid licence. £223.
 
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Does it have to be a nas and/or nvme?

My first thoughts actually went towards a mini pc such as one from minisforums (a couple have 2x nvme) and there are some which ca take multiple 2.5 inch sata with an nvme.

edit: forgot to say, just run something like unraid or truenas on it if you want a 'nas' experience
 
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That's because M.2 NVMe isn't yet popular for NAS use - it's more for local storage or USB caddies to repurpose old drives as external storage as people upgrade.

M.2 NVMe aren't hot swappable - hence why they haven't been adopted, as most NAS allow hot swapping to replace failed drives. Even Servers don't really use M.2 NVMe for anything - they've only recently started standardising on U.2/U.3 for 2.5" NVMe drives, and E1.S /E1.L for smaller form factor drives.

There's also the lack of bandwidth when connected via a network - even with 2.5Gb Ethernet (whose adoption is still far from common), can only manage ~300MB/s - which is slower than even the slowest SATA SSD these days, so the speed of NVMe would be wasted.
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M.2 NVMe is standardised for Dell BOSS storage now :P
 
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