Hey there selfhosted community.

Does anyone here have experience with silent or mostly silent storage solutions? I would like to implement a NAS solution for my homelab and home.

I tried a fully fledged consumer NAS (QNAP with Seagate 12 TB NAS drives) but the noise of the platters was not acceptable. Currently I have a external WD drive attached via USB to my mini PC/server but I would really love to implement some kind of redundancy in the form of a NAS from where the critical files would be backed up to Hetzner for offsite and on external drives.

I don’t need a ton of space. My most critical items are photos. As silent operation is very important I started looking into ssd NAS solutions. Does anyone have experience with Beelink ME mini? Other solutions I looked into where either overkill or horrendously expensive.

I would really like to pull the trigger on a solution here before the prices for storage will skyrocket in the future.

  • joulethief@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    Worth noting that cards such as this (with mote than one M.2 slot) require the mainboard to support PCIe bifurcation – which most old boards likely do not.

    Edit: Cards with just one slot do not require this feature so you can plug them into any board that has a free PCIe slot. Unless you also want to boot from them, in which case you might need to modify your UEFI. I went that route and succeeded, but be aware of the risks involved.

    • kumi@feddit.onlineEnglish
      5·
      12 hours ago

      I had a fun one when I put an 8x card forking into two nvme drives in a mobo that I thought compatible. No matter what, only one of them connects. Turned out:

      • The 8x slot didn’t bifurcate at all
      • The secondary 16x slot could do up to 8x4x4. Which is the same as no bifurcation for an 8x card in that slot.
      • GPU only works in the primary slot

      You think you think of everything…