[1]: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/20/odroid-hc4-low-cost-...
At least it's SATA.
This is exactly what I've been looking for, a cheap Ethernet connected device that can saturate 1GbE. It's perfect for backups.
Skip the middleman and directly connect your hard drive[1]! I think you may have trouble saturating the hard drive's dual 25Gbe links, and a decent switch is gonna be pricey, but that backup should be going very VERY fast indeed when you're done.
Kioxia (nee Toshiba) is not the only one doing this, thankfully, cause I think it's interesting as heck. A lot of hard drives have a good amount of speedy Cortex R processors on them already, why use those to talk NVMe or SATA when you could have the hard drive talking ethernet directly?
[1] https://business.kioxia.com/en-us/news/2020/ssd-20200922-2.h...
Paying about $1000 for 20TB of fault tolerant extra long term storage isn't a problem. I'm even starting to consider magnetic tapes for archives.
What's the price of a TB of high TBW NVMe storage?
This above workload scenario is 100% write based. What about drives in data-centers that have lots of user images that they are unlikely/not-incentivized to prune. The drive could, hypothetically, only need to be written once, then forever read. When do sectors start going bad here? Or is the failure mode otherwise, in other componenets? Will this drive last a century? More?
What other modes of failure should we expect, how probable are they?
I love your challenge here @JAlexoid. Switching from thinking in terms of TB/$ to TB/y/$ is a great twist.
The network interface is a single gigabit port so this does not matter one bit.
Yes I build something using a standard x86_64 (celeron) setup. I heavily experimented with an all arm setup thought. I still find it pretty hard to balance a cheap build that is expandable. I recently lost an OSD and my setup had a consistently high load while recovering.
I don't really like the power consumption of my current setup and am thinking of moving to arm. (I use multiple small HDDs between 1tb and 10tb and have different pools with different redundancys. Am thinking of replacing it with a simple raid or something and 3-4 12tb HDDs with a simple redundancy. Could use minio as s3 replacement and btrfs as fs [I won't use zfs for different reasons] btrfs has snapshots, compression and deduplication so everything I want and need. Never did use rbd over network)
Edit: This is my home setup I'm talking about. At work we got a real setup.
You can even 3D print a nice enclosure, these days.
If you're DIYing, then DIY.
Trying to go lower power doesn't feel worth it, particularly when the hard drives drink so much power.
I feel like I'm spilling the beans sharing this, but ServeTheHome has has an excellent "TinyMiniMicro" series on ~1L size mini-PCs, which are used in businesses a lot. They are much beefier boxes than my little celeron, now often 6 core with way higher clocks. They come with 35W and 65W cpus, but even the couple generations old models still tend to idle at ~10W & otherwise sip power only as demanded[1].
If power is your concern, get rid of your small hard drives. Switch to ARM? Meh.
[1] https://www.servethehome.com/hp-elitedesk-800-g4-mini-tinymi...