What new gear are you interested in?

[Dylan]

Title - just curious what new DIY / Home lab / NAS hardware has your attention recently?

[Mobius]

I still want a jonsbo n5 but outside of that the 120+ tb ssds are what i see in my dreams 😅

[Duncan Innes]

It's not so much new gear for me, but I'm looking for anything which maximises M.2 slots.  I have never bothered to have or build a NAS before now, but the power available at this point is pretty amazing, so going all-flash seems key for me.  I used to track how filesystems were going with tiered storage, as I planned slow spinning rust tier and a modest amount of SSD for fast tier.  But these days I just don't see the need for HDDs in there, so tiered storage no longer seems necessary.

I do like the idea of the Jonsbo N5 with water cooling though 🙂

[Dylan]

Not an advert but I thought this was really informative especially for the budget conscious:

 

Edit to add that I thought the DAS/SFF combo was pretty cool and tagging @ulfn @Sonic

 

[ulfn]

4 hours ago, Dylan said:

Not an advert but I thought this was really informative especially for the budget conscious:

 

Edit to add that I thought the DAS/SFF combo was pretty cool and tagging @ulfn @Sonic

 

Thanks for the video! GMKtec was actually the brand I considered before getting my PocketNAS. Interesting with a small main unit combined with the external drive case. I might by the way have good use for this video to help me setting up my own NAS properly 😀

[ulfn]

New gear?

Yes! I’ve just got a Raspberry Pi 5 to play with for a second unit placed elsewhere, with a USB drive for storage, OR as a separate device for implementing  Nextcloud. There is a Nextcloud PI OS for this.

I even found a wooden case for the Pi, to make it not look like computer gear.