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EXTREME Mini PC Server BUILD – No Seriously – Frankenstein Server
EXTREME Mini PC Server BUILD – No Seriously – Frankenstein Server – but does it work?
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“RACERRRZ”
I give you: FMS / “Frankenstein Mini Server”.
What’s the end-goal here?
An ultralow power-drawing home server that has:
1) Multiple OSes on board for a quick virtual testing ground (Proxmox, TrueNAS, Linux, Windows etc.).
2) M.2 NVMe SSD Boot Drive
3) Fast RAID 5 storage pool (SSD…
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Started out with the 4c4t server that does 65w idle n 250w max and my brain was like "that was not worth using garbage 7 years ago, any ol office machine can beat that now…why would I bother…then you hit me with the nice priced decent power mini pc…yea you got me
Please Consider using an os Like CasaOS or trunas.
If you only need 2 HDDs just use a ODROID-HC4. No 10GbE ethernet but far simpler.
Did the 10g NIC ship from China? I've been looking at some myself but I'm a little suspicious.
Do the fake goldfirs speed up after a while, or do they stay consistently slow after the first few gigabytes are full? Also, how are their read speeds? If those are ok, it might be fine to host some server VMs on them, maybe…
Could you try out the tool called "disk-filltest" (opensource, windows compatible, also on AUR) on those SSDs to check if those SSDs only get slow because of some MLC sheninigans or they really are much smaller in size, with the controller slowing down because of overwriting an already stuffed SSD? Could cause data-corruption in the latter case.
I once had such disks on hand, opened them up and checked the datasheets of the memorychips that were on there. As feared, 2TB drives were only 256GB drives with an noname brand controller..
Cool build. I'm curious how the final server will look and perform. Personally, I would never buy an SSD on AliExpress because I've seen too many pictures of fake SSDs opened up, and there's just an unbranded microSD card inside.