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Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs (liliputing.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Hmm. Let’s say I add 6 SSDs, 2TB each, for a total of 600€. In a RAID6 configuration, that gives me 8TB of storage. Compare that to a classical NAS with 2×8 TB HDDs for a total of 350€.

The HDDs will draw around 4W idle each, 8W in total. Assuming 0.3€/kWh, over a span of 5 years, that is approximately 100€. The power consumption of the SSDs will be negligible.

So, just in terms of storage, the SSD solution is around 33% more expensive over 5 years. If you include the cost of the NAS itself, the price increment is even less noticeable.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

You didn't count the cost of size and environmental damage.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But that is neglecting the performance aspect.

Something like this can be very good for offloading large amounts of data onto a parity backed array either to be moved to a proper long term storage solution later or to be actively worked.

High resolution / bitrate footage comes to mind, where you may be offloading multiple cameras at once and need high write performance.

It's pretty unlikely that SSDs will have price parity with spinning rust anytime soon, but the value in them has always been performance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, absolutely. Right now, SSDs are probably superior in comparison to HDDs in every category except for price (and long-term data integrity when switched off). But when you consider large parity raids and take into account the cost of electricity, even the price difference might only be small, making SSDs even more attractive.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was just thinking "bah ssd, that'll be expensive" but a quick search on Amazon suggests prices have dropped quite a bit.

12Gb soldered on memory though. That's a shame.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (13 children)

That's quite the RAM for a NAS, no? I think mine has 512MB.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Depends on your usecase. This could very well be more than just a NAS.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Are people really doing NAS with SSD? Not just for cache?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

More reliable, less power draw than HDDs, faster and far more space efficient.

Unless you are data hoarding random torrents, 6 to 12 TB is plenty.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

More reliable

Heavily depends. If you want to use it as long-term cold storage you absolutely should not use SSDs, they're losing data when left unpowered for too long. While HDDs are also not perfect in retaining data forever, they won't fail as quickly when left on a shelf.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good and true point, but arguably most NASs are built to be used, not to be not-used…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well, they arguably can also be used as one big long-term storage. Not sure who'd need to save so much data for a long time, but there surely will be at least some people who do and buy the "modern solution" over old HDDs thinking they're better in general. As the "family backup" for example, or as cold storage solution in faculties that can be quickly accessed if needed.

Read somewhere about a professor who used SSDs to "permanently" store important data on SSDs (perhaps in the comments of the article above) for a few years. Well, wasn't that permanent…

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you live in a small place and dont have massive storage needs, it can make sense for the sake of the quietness.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have a long-term dream to build a fanless SSD-powered NAS

Self-hosted, silent, fast - what's not to love, aside from steep price tag?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I did, because of energy efficiency and quietness. But also I heavily compromised on the amount of space.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

The ME mini features 12GB of LPDDR5-4800 memory, which means the RAM will be soldered to the mainboard and not user upgradeable.

Aaaaand I'm out.

Edit: Hijacking my own comment to update the update

Update: The Beelink ME mini is priced at 1295 CNY in China, which is about $177 at the current exchange rate. It’s likely to cost a bit more outside of China.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Solderer ram is slightly more power efficient. And this is probably a laptop board.

That said, 12gb is slightly too low for my liking. Though an N200 CPU does not have much headroom to upgrade for anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Solderer ram is slightly more power efficient.

That may be true but I don't really care either way.

And this is probably a laptop board.

Pretty sure a laptop board would not fit in this thing. It's most definitely a dedicated board for this machine.

Though an N200 CPU does not have much headroom to upgrade for anyway.

You can use at least 32GB.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah that's just so dumb. Also, i wouldn't be comfortable with the OS on eMMC storage. That's hardly known for reliability. So close and yet so far.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This would be perfect if I could fit 24th NVMe devices in this, but not looking to pay more then ~300-350 CAD in a device with no hdd/ssd

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much do you expect to pay for the 24 NVMe disks?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably $3.5 tops

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Bout Tree fiddy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for posting. Would like to use this for multiple reasons.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it's less than $200, it might be worth it. Doubtful though.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just in case the only thing you're looking for is the price, I'll save you a click.

Beelink hasn’t announced how much the ME mini will cost or when it will be available for purcahse yet.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Curious what pricing will be like. I use a beelink as a router rn

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hope for it to be somewhere in the $200-250 range. Everything above kinda makes it unattractive when the Flashstor 6 exists.

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