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NAS with upgradable RAM for TrueNAS (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for an off-the-shelf 4 or 6 bay NAS with upgradeable RAM that runs TrueNAS (for ZFS). The QNAP TS-664 looked very nice, but the price of the 4G version (with 2 RAM slots) is currently 25% more than the 8G version (with soldered RAM). I'd like to have 16 or better 32GB of RAM.

Do you have any recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

No specific recommendations for off-the-shelf offerings, but I see you're in Europe and concerned with power consumption? You may want to look at Wolfang's Channel on youtube - he has a few NAS builds that are extremely low power, and I've found his videos informative. Specifically, you will want to look at his "Building a Power Efficient Home Server" video.

Of course, the above is not useful if you're looking for prebuilt units.

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

Newer generation Intel boards should be quite a bit better than my numbers, too.

A modern, barebones board with no extra cards, 1Gbe and an NVMe idles at 10W with an ATX PSU. A dedicated NAS can not really do a lot to lower this a lot.

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

Sorry, I was strictly speaking newer Intel SFF mobos vs the Haswell one I quoted. I get 15-18W idle with SATA SSD, 1Gbe, no PCI card/no HBA, and an ATX Gold PSU. Two different (i3/i5) Haswell era SFF PCs I tested are both in this range. Once CPU is used at all, they both jump up to the 25-28W range.

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