NAS vs larger server
Greyscale @ greyscale @lemmy.sdf.org Posts 16Comments 161Joined 2 yr. ago

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I'd consolidate to let it pay for itself over the longer term in electricity savings.
My single NAS runs everything I could ever want, though I regret not finding a used 6700k, finding out teh 6600k didn't have HT.
Also, I run frigate on it inside a container and use a Google Coral Accellerator to people-detection from 4x2k camera streams. Its pretty swish, though it took some fiddling to get the kernel to be groovy with it and do container-device passthru from PCI-e.
In total, my single NAS runs the following in containers:
The whole shebang, NAS with permanently spinning rust, UPS, ISP Modem and Ubiquity Dream Machine run ~100W.
Edit: I've noticed ZFS is twitchier than most about disks failing. It fails disks about once or twice a year, which are getting cheaper every year. Most of the time the disk still works as far as SMART is concerned, but I'm not gonna question the ZFS gods.