A waste of space. Unless you can prove a need for high i/o, which is pointless if you are limited to Gb lan, raid5 or 6 is a better option.
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Are there any benefits to a NAS if you have a PC which needs to be always on
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A waste of space. Unless you can prove a need for high i/o, which is pointless if you are limited to Gb lan, raid5 or 6 is a better option.
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NAS vs PC
Points of failure would be less..
a NAS does not have RAM that could fail, or a expensive power supply.. Simple little box that uses very little power.. I moved from a server to a NAS..
NAS FTW
Points of failure would be less..
a NAS does not have RAM that could fail, or a expensive power supply.. Simple little box that uses very little power.. I moved from a server to a NAS..
NAS FTW
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Yes it does, just like your router, printer, and phone. Just because it's soldered to the board doesn't mean it can't fail.
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Not likely... There are so many points of failure its not even funny..
Plus no license for an OS..or a screen, mother board could fail.. CPU.. plus the power requirements are off the wall nuts... most people would not just use it as a NAS, and eventually break it.. A dedicated NAS ftw
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A dedicated NAS still has a motherboard, RAM, some type of primary storage for the OS, and a power supply. All of which can fail. There is no "not likely" about it; every one of them has those components.
For what it is worth, there are a ton of OS's for a NAS system or file server that are free. I'm running one; two if you count the hypervisor.
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You know what a NAS is? Its a specialized computer.
There is still a CPU, RAM, power supply, SATA/RAID controller, and an operating system.
Yep, mind blown.
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It will be running 3 VMs as well as being the file server.
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Chiming in late, but if you can't get a controller with a BBU, a UPS that you can monitor in one of the VMs could be used to do a clean shutdown of the entire box should the power go out. I do the same on my ESXi box, using a Cyberpower UPS via USB to a dedicated UPS monitor VM (put together by Cyberpower themselves). It will communicate with ESXi and send a shutdown command, then ESXi takes over the clean shutdown of every VM and the system itself.
Got it, apologies. I'm used to dedicated NAS boxes around here.
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