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I secured Four 4TB Crucial M.2 SSDs during Black Friday. What's the best use for them? (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by Atari__Safari@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
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This was a bit of an impulse buy. Not sure how to use them. I was thinking:

  1. Austor Flashstor NAS, either the 6 or 12 bay NAS, but I already have a HDD Synology NAS, so it is not needed. More just for fun.
  2. A Homelab server with a motherboard that has 4 m.2 slots if such a thing exists. Then I could make a K8s cluster or a proxmox server.
  3. Find some other way to provide storage for a Homelab server that is not part of a motherboard? Like a PCIe board that holds 2 or 4 m.2 SSDs?

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[-] joecool42069@alien.top 3 points 9 months ago

What's the best use for them?

They're good at storing and reading files fast.

[-] InitCyber@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

This guy stores

[-] netwolf420@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

ASUS Hyper m.2 Card, slap all 4 in, 16TB in RAID0.

[-] travcunn@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

You'll actually get worst performance in most cases... Unless you are reading and writing large files

[-] pixlatedpuffin@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Why do you say that?

[-] travcunn@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

For big files, modern SSDs have already reached the data bus limit so you really aren't going to get faster than your motherboard. For small files, you are actually going to get worst performance because the RAID setup will add latency to every I/O operation and it won't read from both SSDs at the same time, since the file is below the stripe size (128KB or 256KB, depending on the controller and settings).

[-] TheFlyingBaboon1@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Remember that your mobo needs to support PCIe bifurcation, otherwise it will be a 4TB RAID0 party

[-] jdpdata@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I have 4x - 2TB nvme on Asus HyperX M.2 Gen 4 card in my Synology DS3622xs+ as second nvme only volume in RAID10 for fast files sync and storage using Synology Drive.

Have another 4x -2TB nvme coming that I will put on same Asus AIC as 8TB RAID0 array on my Windows workstation for super fast scratch disk for my database projects.

[-] Kltpzyxmm@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

How did you get that synology to let you use them as storage drives? I thought any nvme was cached only except for their new 23 model. Iโ€™d love to be able to do this on a 2422 if possible

[-] jdpdata@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

My 3622xs+ is not a "real" Synology box. It's a custom built Xpenology running ARC loader. By using 007revad's scripts, I'm able to create M.2 volume. Pretty sure you can run Dave's script on any Synology boxes. Go to his Github to get instructions.

https://github.com/007revad/Synology_M2_volume

[-] MentalDV8@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

What Base hardware did you build it on? Or is it a vm?

[-] RoganDawes@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe something like this? https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/11/27/friendlyelec-cm3588-nas-kit-four-m2-key-m-2280-pcie-gen-3-x1-sockets/

[-] Atari__Safari@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Wow. Any reviews on that? How many PCIe lanes can it handle?

[-] Kltpzyxmm@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I have these exact drives and have them on an ASUS card passed through to true NAS then formatted as 2 mirrored pairs. I throw all my container database and transcode and such volumes on there

[-] Atari__Safari@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Is that better than using Proxmox?

[-] Born-Entrance-8625@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

You can give away and make them happy who in need ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

[-] Atari__Safari@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Haha, sorry!

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