Same

Can't wait 😊

Excellent idea.

bump

Props for the idea

I would be AMAZED if there was not a dozen already out there. it looks iro mini ITX?

Is that really the best part? I know all the 3D printing people out there will love it, but despite what those people think, 3D printing is incredibly niche. Even for people that watch this sort of content.

@@TurinAlexander Most people who would be buying this thing probably are enthusiasts, and either have or have access to a printer.

@@TurinAlexander most public libraries these days have 3d printers that you can use, not the most convenient way.... but if you don't have a printer and want something printed... it's usually free or has a very very small fee

@@TurinAlexander because it exists that means you can order a printed case.

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All LTT is these days is a 50% video and 50% sales pitches... I can watch normal TV if i want to see this many ads thanks...

That's why I stopped watching his videos. Like just one long ad masked as a technical how-to video. Only reason I stumbled upon this is because I was looking for a cheap, small NAS that wasn't a raspberry pi since the pi5 isn't that cheap anymore. There is also click bait/misleading. The description say "This tiny computer is so small it can fit in your pocket and have over 30TB of SSD Storage. For under $100 you can have a powerful ARM based board to call youre own!" then in the video they end up with 11TB and says it cost $165 just for one of NVMe drives alone! LMAO

@@joesalz9963 Heh, and today, 2 weeks after it posted, following the link in the description for the NVME drives takes me to an Amazon page selling them for $226 each. So while the end of the video shows this rig as outfitted as costing $825, if you buy everything using LTT's very links today, it will cost $1,093 (the 16GB RAM option on FriendlyElec went up as well, and LTT didn't include the cost for a power supply).

@@joesalz9963 100% agree man, this is the same reason i found the video and was so disappointed when i came back after not watching for a year ish... it has gotten even worse over time!

Thank you for your service.

Doing gods work sir, having alternatives to Broadcom raspberry pi’s have been a god send for me

Thank you for your persistence. The RK3588 is definitely a game changer in the Arm based SBC world after the aging RK3399, considering that the broadcom chip on RPi5 is standing still.

Wish more people helped with the Orange Pi, they use both Rockchip and Allwinner, also good options for a possible NAS

Thank u m8!

same dude

Dunno how about Americans, but in EU it's not a joke actually.

@@barongogenzoler4300 its a sarcastic joke, in EU also ... BMW is expensive all around the world ... thats what they where joking over ...

Yes they are expensive to buy and expensive to maintain 😢 I know since I drive one

​@@Suchtzocker, in the US 330i is less than the average annual take-home. In the EU it's nominally far more expensive and take-home is much lover. It means the average postgrad with few years of experience can't afford a lease. PPP in reality.

or a lock box storage.

Which is why he mentions the "3-2-1" strategy--3 copies of data, 2 different types of media, at least 1 offsite copy.

@@TheEvertw in another city even? You worried about a nuke?

@@HectorLugo At least my data will be secure!

maybe it would be worth it to set up a mutual backup partnership with someone else; store their encrypted backup files on your NAS, and they let you store your encrypted backups on theirs. All data is safe, and it's a win-win.

While it's cool, it doesn't sync everything like iCloud does, including contacts, messages, settings and apps/data. I'm not an iPhone guy, but I have to give Apple credit for their truly 100% backups, no Android does a 100% backup. The only other way to do it is pulling a manual backup locally via iTunes.

Everything you mentioned can be backed up on modern Android phones. Its just that some apps choose to opt-out of full backup. And not all settings can be transferred between different android operating systems.

@@BillAnt The average person's storage usage is mostly media. With that out of the picture, the 50 GB 99¢/mo tier or maybe even the 5 GB free tier become significantly more workable.

You still need an off-site backup

Who says you have to stop using icloud

he really should just wear the helmet

this has gotta be part of their april fools video. they've been hiding things in their recent videos...

Oh, I thought he was signalling that he's transitioning.

That was a hell of a make a wish request.

ok "William" ... Nice fake name Elijah.. maybe you can make a video on how to make fake youtube hbots that hype you up to get raises at work.. that would be useful

Indeed ... also a professional cloud service solves e.g. the high availability/storage redundancy topic for you so if a regular user should setup 2 of those, operating the 2nd one in an offsite location with (appropriately fast) internet connection and backup and/or continuous sync job in place ... not to mention the configuration effort, keeping updates/security, etc. it might really just be more efficient to purchase a cloud account. I myself operate 2 NASes with RAID at 2 locations and following a proper HW lifecycle I already calculated that a cloud offering would be more efficient for me. So I just do it myself because I like it as an IT nerd 🥰 and that's why I am looking forward to getting my hands on this toy as well 😅😍.

Why continue to pay month by month for a service, when its cheaper to build your own nas, not to mention you have full control over it. Don't need internet access and such, what if you decide you are done paying for storage and you want your files back,well then you still need drives to put this on. So better off just building the nas from the get go.

@@prop19yes Again, not every user is going to be able to build this and this is not for everyone. You are assuming everyone can do this, they can't. If they could, I would not have a Job in IT 🤔 Also you are going to have to update & replace hardware overtime and failure, use up electricity and some 3rd part apps for NAS do have a cost. So yes, even CapEX and OPEX apply here. Not only companies move away from on premises while some stay, individual users do as well per their needs and evaluations. Not complicated to understand.

imo, we are headed toward a world where ppl have a home server that serves as a NAS, and runs all your apps. We gotta move away from the subscription model where every big company is fighting for a small sliver of everyones money, than has unlimited power in terms of laws over the virtual world.

@@MartinKovacik thats awesome man, and you took into account something very important that many will not: hardware life cycle. This cost is miss by some thinking this set will be upfront cost only (CapEx) but they forget about maintenance and support. And yeah this is a perfect solution for many already over paying for Cloud/NAS service. Glad this has been working for you :D I also set up a Small NAS this year for local use only, and love it.

I am not sure why I would want the featured device over a Raspberry pi tbh especially at the spec they went for

​@@CJonestheSteam72 the top end model is significantly more performant than a pi 5, and for not much more money. It's also got much, much better I/O.

@@CJonestheSteam72 raspberry pis are a bit expensive, underpowered and have very little IO

(who's there?)

​@@r0galikknock knock

“Affordable” in that the 4TB drives are $180 each! This thing as configured by Linus is nearly $1000. I realize you can use 2TB drives but it would still be about $600 that way. That’s a lot of hassle and nearly 5 years of cloud storage.

@@fuelvolts i mean im sure in the future there prob will be sata versions of this or even buy some cheap adapters, and even so u can get some cheap m2 ssd's now, ofc prices have been going back up but u can def get some deals. Ofc if ur going budget u could just plug a USB external hard drive into your router or get a bunch of refurb hard drives but the software pointed out for mobile is def a new addition to my life

You could also use cheap m.2 to sata adapters and not use SSDs at all.

@@fuelvolts1. 16TB cloud storage cost 6usd/TB (Backblaze B2), making it 1000 bucks a year. Apple iCloud cost 60usd x12 = 700usd a year. 2. All your data is being actively scanned and removed on DCMA request, should you upload licensed media such as movies, songs and try to share them to other people. 3. If they were to loose your data (happened with google before), they hold 0 liability. 0 responsibility. It’s written in the the small text when you sign up for the service… Sure, if you only need 2TB, then a iCloud for 5usd/month is totally fine. But a 2TB SSD can be bought new for 60usd as well…

@@fuelvolts that price is for fast storage, as mentioned in the video, just run 3.5" drives and pay less then 1/4 of the price. pretty sure you can get 12TB drives for under 200. for NVME storage, 180 for 4TB IS affordable. even at these slower speeds (compared to gen 4/5 etc) youve still got the convenience of 1. less likely for a physical failure (in terms of the HDD dying etc) and 2. way smaller / quieter. a couple 3.5" drives will be bigger than the entire PCB. I've got my old PC converted to a NAS, also using openmedia, and it works great

Telling that you feel $783 is a large investment. Don't go total most people's outlay for streaming services and cloud storage over the years. You might be disappointed. Also it's not like the time and effort doesn't come with the added value of knowing some stuff that could make you dough later. Linux, network, storage, etc still pay fairly well. Not to mention building and selling these rigs to friends and family when they see how well yours works. Sounds like a solid value to me.

I saved a few pennies in undergrad by going full-on open-source DIY, and doing things like this. Maybe my life would've been simpler if I'd just gotten a part-time job with all that time and paid big companies to replace that. But you know what? I graduated with a degree in a non-techie profession, and a giant stack of niche tech knowledge on the side; and it's that knowledge that landed me one of the best jobs in my entire industry, where I get to do more or less whatever I want, and set my own exhorbitant hourly rates because I'm one of the very, very few individuals who has this set of knowledge in addition to my professional degree. Turns out this kind of enthusiast knowledge pays big, fat dividends if you have enough of it and some other, complimentary skillset.

And there you have it, you actually learned something ;p

You saved only 14$ if you bought cloud storage for a single month. This isn't meant for the people who don't need/only just bought cloud storage.

I used a raspberry pi and 2 2TB SSD drives with a custom made water + fan cooling system and I got it under 250$ Raspberry pi 4 2gb ram - RS 7000 - 80$ 2x 2TB SSD - RS 10000 (RS 5000 each) - 119$ Custom made cooling system - RS250 - 3$ Others(cat6 wire, power supply, etc) - RS 100 - 1.5$ Total: 203.5 ~ 205$ or RS 20050 RS --> INR

I suspect he need to wear all those hats in order to claim them as a tax write off

He's that hat guy now. lol

@@1yugiohtraderso Elijah goes by them eh?

Just a burning memory

The typo made me imagine him with a fedora schizoposting on a chan board idk why

They got slashdotted

jup, still down

Yep

Oh maaaan...

Still down😅

Which is why they recommended a proper backup routine, which you should still have if using the cloud.

@@insnprsn But this means you need to make a backup and then put that backup into a off-site location. And bring it back again to update the backup and remember to do that regularly. It becomes a job, just to save money.

@@kwongheng fair, though you could always set the backup up at a tech illiterate (or trusted tech literate) friend/family member's house. You could even offer that in return, they can have 1TB of free cloud storage.

TBH, I think the reason most people use the cloud is because it gets automatically set up on their computer. Not that you give bad reasons though. Personally, I use a NAS and crossed fingers.

Yeah this is the issue. I back up my local backups to google cloud just because I don't have my own "offsite" location I can stand up another storage server. Maybe a video on colocation services and things like that would be handy.

It's not automatic, but your office works. Have an encrypted external SSD that you load your backup on once a month and store it in your locker/ locked desk drawer at work.

@@nephatrine yes, I also use Google but I package in some compression packages with encryption.

I don't know if a video could be useful, because it's more of a debate rather than a simple topic they could cover. How much data are you backing up? Do you need all of it backed up? Do you REALLY need all of it backed up? What is available to you? What's your threshold for maximum inconvenience? Some people don't want to hear it, but there's nothing wrong with using cloud for off-site storage, as long as the limitations aren't too limiting for your use case. For use-cases like photos, having them in your phone, backing up to cloud and periodically storing them on your PC fulfills 3-2-1, with the added advantage that you're always carrying one of the devices with you, and the off-site storage can be accessed wherever you can get an internet connection. And with photos, it's unlikely you will need more than one of the cheap basic tiers which cost something like 1-5$ a month.

For cold archives - Encrypt and compress, dump it to Backblaze, they'll mail you a hard drive. For rolling backups... I haven't figured that out yet :/ But I think NextCloud may be the solution.

Literally was contemplating buying ugreen's $500 nvme device, but not anymore thankyou linus. But sadly the built in storage options are out of stock so I'll be waiting to buy then.

@@artemisfowl127Depends, UGreen's solution is out of box ready that I would recommend someone's mom to get if they need one in the house. LTT's solution is a tinkerer's solution where it doesn't even come in a box to house the chip in.

Exactly

If you don’t want the DIY then the UGreen NASync (or even another solution like the Synology DiskStation) would work. If you’re ok with the DIY and the cost of all-flash, then the FriendlyElec is for you.

Couldnt you run a backup power supply regarding this to circumvent the outages? And regarding SSDs totally get you there.

"We didn't want to buy the cheapest storage option, so we purchased 4 4TB NVME drives at $160 each." OK... Cool....

They got ya! 😂 Clickbait style

Yeah as soon as I saw this video I thought it was stupid. Even with one 2 tb m.2 drive it'd be about 200 dollars total so you're looking at 2 years as a break even. Plus you are giving up the biggest benifets of cloud storage by hosting yourself. Clloud storage will be off-site and have some redundancy.

I think that's a little harsh considering. I agree that some of the benefits of cloud storage are not present, but I think the comparison of Nas to Nas between "all-in-one" enclosures Vs this do it yourself method yields some cost reductions. You definitely get some redundancy using raid, and you don't have to go nvme or a full 4*4tb system, you can scale to meet your needs

Think at least just a little bit! The Hardware is great, and for the Video sake and clicks they added some m.2s so what? Take a freaking m.2 to sata adapter and put your old hraddrives on it. Are you all that uninspired to pick your own fraking conclusion out of the video?

They already did it.

@@gregdaweson4657 where´s the link?

There's a subtle difference though, you're reaponsible for your own data now. You store on fhe cloud and it's their problem, ans they'll damn sure use redundancy to have several bavkups ready in cases of disasters. If you pay for redundancy thw cloud storags is a decent option, not for 2tb, but for 250gb it's fine. Probably best to diversify storage and backups to tolerate risks and hardware failures and balance costs.

​@@robertwilsoniii2048 I dunno abt you, but I prefer taking responsibility over my own data as compared to paying boatloads of money.

@@halomika4973and also, even if the cloud provider some how loses your data, theyll just get slap on the wrist and youll get 10 bucks in a class action

@@robertwilsoniii2048 Double your investment and have two NAS servers - place them in different rooms under different breakers. Make one primary and backing up to secondary. Your PERSONAL data is not in the hands of a 3rd party which shifts is privacy and protection policy every 3 months. Major Corps are going to run you thru multiple ai phone menus's that will hide putting you in touch with a LIVE person. So they can have you running in circles for months or years trying to get your data back. Just take responsibility for your own Data.

​@@robertwilsoniii2048just set it up in RAID. Double or triple redundancy based on the drives used.

I know of no NAS system that is cheap with storage. Im looking for something exactly like this for my large storage needs. I’d like to see one with 8 slots and 64g ram. It will be public. I do 4K and 8K video and need the storage while I compile clips.

Omg, didn't see it the first time 😂

It's dumb because Jake has a couple of BMW's

I thought he said "my generation can't afford be all Ws (winners)" This makes more sense I guess haha.

@@seanlacroix The one I know of (M5 E60) is going on 20 years old at this point, and he's a car guy, so he's willing to spend a higher percentage on his income on cars, which most people don't want to

@@servissop151funny enough my dad just bought a e60 (not m5) for under 3k with gas mod ^^

But what about their sponsor ?

Agree, Intro was bitchin or what ever young people say these days

thats just bad practice on your business though tbh. most companies block Google and One Drive that isnt related to them.

just create a reverse proxy and voila

Look into Noip and a home router with a vpn. You can use this to tunnel back into your network without port forwarding.

You dont need to poke holes through their firewall, you can poke holes through your own firewall, and configure your remotely hosted NAS to VPN **to you** connecting your nas to your network as if it were right next to you.

You also have the “how do I sync with the NAS when away from my network” issue. Wait until you’re back isn’t great and doesn’t compare to the cloud. Poke holes in the firewall is asking for trouble, and use a VPN can be beset by issues - one of which is patchy connectivity and the other is much reduced battery life. I know because I’ve tried.

Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnels, etc solve these problems.

@@pantoqwerty Nonsense. I'm a web dev who works from home. I have huge blocks of open IPs on my firewall and anywhere from zero to several hundred people connected at once. I just have a standard home Internet plan with my ISP. My services run on a standard PC that's nearly a decade old, now (i7). I've been working like this for decades. I honestly don't even know what you're talking about. You clearly have other issues. As a web dev, I'm also renting plenty of rack space but certain tasks just make a LOT more sense to host yourself (mostly, high CPU\low bandwidth stuff).

@@igotnoname4557 So you have several hundred people connected on your firewall at a time? Hardly a run of the mill appliance on a bog standard connection then else they’d be seriously contended. That you don’t know what i’m talking about is neither here nor there. VPN connections drain phone batteries. Fact. When your phone is locked it won’t generally keep the connection active and will activate it when you unlock it - you’ll see the VPN indicator go on and off. That’s an extra delay and inconvenience as you wait for it to reconnect. Native cloud services to a phone will work in the background. I host plenty of services but I refuse to expose them externally and VPN connectivity to them is a pain in the arse for the given reasons.

DDoS from Linus watchers.

I NEED IT!!!

yep

Omg, I can’t get onto their site!

There’s a big opening here

No way, thats great. I was thinking of making something like this for a while and now LTT makes a video about it! I didn't understand some parts of this video (im not that knowledgable about anything server relayed, hence why watch LTT ;D), was the set up hard and how much did you end up spending on this total?

@@skyshadow28 Hmmz I thought I already replied to this but I don't see my comment. The setup was actually super easy. Just like the video mentioned, you use the image that friendlyelec provides. The only thing that takes really long is the initial configuration of the raid array (takes hours), but that is apparently normal. Now it has been running super smooth since. I suppose I spent around 1000 in total (without vat).

Same here, looking for an equivalent to "onedrive" (what i currently use but have to clear space every so often, no monthly plans for me) to do auto backup of photos from my and my families phones to my home seever/nas (TrueNAS).

I would like to know if that could be used really as a CLOUD as Dropbox: I configure an app and outside my network, I can just sync as Dropbox things from my laptop or phone to it. Just as a NAS … it’s cool, but lacks what I’m searching.

@@ricarmig well... Have you heard of NextCloud? You should take a look at r/selfhosted, there's so much cool stuff to host that a dropbox replacement is kinda lame. Also if you just wanna try from my experience the best way is to just do it. I use old laptop as 'server' with linux and use docker, really fun to learn. Anything can be use as server.

@@ricarmigYou´d want Nextcloud for that not Immich

​@@ricarmignextcloud might be what you are looking for. As long as you setup a way of accessing local resources externally, it should be a near drop in replacement for dropbox

I assumed the video was a paid spot - they just breathlessly promote the board, and suggest you entrust all your data to an abandoned project the found on someone's Google drive. It's an interesting device, but when you're reaching for a backup, that thing has to work. When you're explaining to your spouse that the baby photos are all gone, "b-but we saved nearly $300" isn't going to help you.

@@h4gfish Then get an offsite backup too. It can even be a good friend's house in the same city, really. The cloud storage prices are insane.

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Not to mention you'd probably need to upgrade something in 5 years anyway.

I'd suggest not to think it as a replacement at first, but as an improvement. So you get the bare minimum and then upgrade it with the years to lessen the total cost.

Yeah this is all well and good but I'm happy to pay a "premium" for cloud storage since it's basically one click to set up and it runs independent of whether or not things are fine in my house.

that's the big difference. this video is mostly a nothing burger.

Exactly. What happens if your house has an issue or even just your internet has an issue? I see so many "stop paying for cloud storage" videos like this and they ALL miss this point, and lo and behold, they're all trying to shill these solutions that end up costing MORE, both in money, and peace of mind. (notice how to make the value seem good, they had to compare to ANNUAL subscription instead of MONTHLY. Sorry but many can afford $10/month a LOT more than $120 RIGHT NOW, and that's not even mentionng you loose all the benefits of cloud storage.

Did you miss the part about 3-2-1 the 1 is offsite. Which this could work well for

@@mrmotofyim sure they didn’t watch the video that far in the first place.

Did you watch the whole video? They showed a m.2 to SATA adapter and explained that as a possibility. Also, not everyone needs 1tb of storage. I'd be perfectly content with ~1tb of storage. Four 512gb drives are _a lot_ cheaper. Not everyone stores their Linux isos and steam boat willy rips. Some of us just need photo and document backups.

@@herranton great, you can still do that far cheaper. From a mini pc to something as simple as plugging a flash drive into the USB port on your router (if equipped) or even just creating a file share on a desktop. There’s lots of options out there and this isn’t a bad one but there’s simpler ways to back up and access your files, often with equipment you may already have.

@@herranton I mean that's still an extra $40 for the adapter. That money could be used on more storage.

Brilliant idea. I got a used mini PC for £30 here, £7 for an SSD to use as the boot drive, then £160 for a 12TB external HDD, I hooked that up with tailscale and I have that drive acessible anywhere. I also got a 1TB HDD off ebay for £7.50. That's for my duplicates of the important files/ offline/offsite backup. The HDD is more than powerful enough. I tested 10 devices playing back video at the same time off it. It's got an i3 4130t in it I think. SSDs are wasted on projects like this because most of the time you'll be throttled by either gigabit ethernet (125 mb/second max), or if you have the infrastructure at home 2.5 gigabit ethernet (~300 mb/second max). The SSDs go up to 3000-5000 mb/second if they're attached locally. And a high capacity HDD can do (200mb/second+). And if you're away from home you'll be throttled by very slow mobile data, wifi speeds, which at best will probably be gigabit (125 mb/second), and likely far far less. Unless you're in a big big city with 5G everywhere or a very powerful wired fibre connection 2.5Gigabit+ (which again is rare outside major cities / business connections / hotel connections) - it's wasted. Plus you'll also be limited by your home internet connection. I find it hard advocating for bulk SSD storage in something like this at at least 3-4x the price, plus all the extra boards and housing, when you're not going to get or need the throughput. It could be worthwhile if you need a small form factor and hyper power efficiency, will have lots of users using it simultaneously, or are doing direct video editing off it. Or if cost is not an issue to you - that's fine too! If you're not using it super intensively, HDDs can do the job amazingly well. They'll be idle most of the time, except when you're using them. Their capacities go much higher and I'd rather have 12TB of storage for the same price of 4TB SSD drive that will go at the same speed when it's in use.

​@fukov3400 but you don't have raid with one drive. If it fails, all is gone. I agree that the comparison to Google Drive 10 tb for 50 $/month is unrealistic. I just need 100 gb, if I include the photos from my camera. Also, backblaze offers unlimited backup capacity for 9$/month which would be a much better comparison, because the stated problem was backing up your photos/data from your phone.

this is a NAS, not an app server. it's supposed to have like 16-32 TB depending on drives

have you considered putting your home server behind a VPN? You can still access it through the internet but it is not exposed (only the VPN port).

Yes, indeed, excellent point. Plus the mobile apps to do the sync are nowhere as reliable as the built-in ones. I used exactly the app they are showing in the first few seconds of this video and it was the best one I tried but still would miss synchronizing stuff automatically sometimes.

@@epsig1507 This is an option but you then have to keep the VPN connection open at all times or manage VPN and syncing manually which is a pain.

Same. I was running all kind of services, like a FOSS slack and a FOSS dropbox, and the security considerations only were insane. At some point it was cost effective to just pay the yearly subscription.

yes excellent point. but as a middle ground alternative, you could only sync over local wifi and turn off remote access.

Just be aware with exploits and always keep the instance updated, nextcloud has been exploited a lot in the past

Unless you actually need all the nextcloud functionality, i'd avoid it at all cost. Instead use one of those simple web based file explorers for remote file access on a PC and/or webdav/scp and a dedicated sync app on your phone. Much less complexity and possibility for exploits.

Back when I was a student I successfully ran Nextcloud instance serving terabytes of data (usually before exams lol), so I know it is capable platform, but it's just not stable enough to recommend to most people. It's pain in the butt. Nextcloud team is very aggressive with updates, every update will introduce some bugs which may or may not affect you. Don't believe me? Just look at their gihub issues lol (both open and closed). Even minor releases are problematic.

@@HaimRich94 I have mine constantly updated but yeah I’m aware of exploits. That’s generally why I don’t put incredibly important stuff on there and make sure to have backups.

@@hojnikb I got to say what is this concern with the security of Nextcloud? And why would a nobody software solution with limited resources be safer? Nextcloud is at it's heart a Webdav server and you would be hitting all the same security concerns with opening a PC to the internet. At least with Nextcloud, I know the software itself is secure with a large opensource organization behind it. The rest is still on me with any self hosted solution.

Idk but maybe 3 nvme, 5 Sata SSD it's enough for this configuration.

@@mateuszzimon8216 My NAS runs on FreeBSD. It is 4 x 10TB Iron Wolves, 2 x 2TB Samsung Evo (2.5" SATA) for ARC2 and 32GB RAM. The ARC Cache (RAM) hit rate is about 99% when I am not streaming videos, so most of the time it is running at RAM drive speeds. Videos open instantly and the network is the bottleneck, but it can handle backups of my store-bought 4k BluRays just fine. I think I could remove the ARC2 and not see any difference. Probably I will at some point and replace those slots with more mechanical drives to increase capacity.

As someone who done animation for a very short time, SSDs changed my life. I just wish that Linus shown us a video compiling too.

Lol, i'll re-use the expression with copies of Steamboat Willie 😂

@@mateuszzimon8216 The answer is probably 2 large nvme, and 10 large sata.

is there any research regard to this?

@@kot98br Research is hard to come by, and youtube doesn't allow links in comments, but there are some well-informed articles out there that discuss the pros and cons. The key takeaway is that SSDs have a limited duty-cycle and may not be the best option for write-intensive applications.

For what reason...?

@@tazanteflight8670 firmware on m2 drives.

In the meantime, this SSD solution is still far more expensive than a Synology NAS setup. The SSDs mentioned are $229 each (4TB). My 4-bay NAS + 4Sata drives = ~830 This board + 4SSDs = $1100 The performance won't be the same, and that's certainly reflected in the price. If you can get the SSD->SATA adapters working, then it'd definitely be an economical choice.

Pineapples

Canada also has plastic money so I had to do a double take on that one

Im glad i wasnt the only one who noticed

and the easy use for cloud without security risk to your home network

In Europe the biggest storage you can have on Google Drive is 2TB for 100€/year, a board like this one with two drives is paid for in 2 years even with power costs since it doesn't consume that much. Your ISP router probably needs more power than this.

Yeah, I started the video and thought damn this could be okay but $95 is quite expensive when I can just pay a few $ a year for extra Apple storage and get unlimited photo storage with Amazon Prime. But, I could see it being convenient. To then keep adding bits that make it more and more expensive, to then be talking about a nearly $900 piece of kit in a working state. Sure if you're storing A LOT of films and whatnot, maybe that's of use for you for some reason. But, I can't see why it's even remotely reasonable at those kinds of prices for any normal user who will just have a boat load of pictures and videos they've taken themselves. Just buy an external hard drive and call it a day

Power is at most 33€ a year where I live, that's assuming 100% load 24/7 (which isn't realistic). No, Google drive or iCloud do not handle 3-2-1 for you. You can lose data on cloud, it happens. Cloud storage can at best be considered your off-site backup. The biggest hurdle people need to jump over when trying to implement 3-2-1 is realizing that perhaps they don't actually need to have backed up all of their hoarded data. Pretty much anything that can be recovered elsewhere isn't worth backing up. And 3-2-1 should only be applied to things you can't afford to lose. Let's be honest, lots of people hoard stuff they will never actually need. Once you start getting into the off-site part of storage, it's no longer just about the hardware, but also about the fact that you need to have that hardware somewhere. If it's too close to your home, it's exposed to many of the same risks as on-site. And in many use-cases it will actually turn out that Cloud isn't a bad solution, especially for low volume things like photos.

​​@@bastienx8but in Europe one of those 4tb ssds cost 440€ each. This project makes no sense here

Idk why but I heard this in Rolf's voice. "Elijah wears many hats ed-boy"

He's been promoted. It used to be many helmets.

Frodo

Right? I got on it for about 18 seconds.....annnnnnnnnd it's gone.

Phone smashers* not snatchers. Given the video is for cloud backup and they were “smashing their phones” I thought it was pretty obvious?

That is not it. It's expensive, and it's not the worst... it lacks SATA. You can find much better.

@@goku445What would you recommend?

Yeah.. what do you recommend? What moonstrobe asked.​@@goku445

I am currently planning a NAS and I am also missing this information.. I don´t wanna spend more than 150 € for the basic hardware, so a mini pc is out of range. A Raspi 4B 4GB RAM is my first option now (power consumption of about 6 W). But if the CM3588 comsumes less than 9 W i would prefer it.

nah, people want acces from their own cloud. Cheaper in the long run and better to host yourself.